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Coles-Classroom-Crave-Presets-Exclusive. 30Day.jpg (JPEG Image, 600 × 776 pixels) - Scaled (91%) Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop. Last year we posted on Abduzeedo a very cool post about typographic portraits, the 45 Amazing Type Faces - Typographic Portraits became one of the most popular posts on Abduzeedo, and a lot of people asked me how to create that effect in Photoshop.

Super Easy Typographic Portrait in Photoshop

We have also posted a little tutorial showing how to do that using, Flash Photoshop Quick Tips #5 - Typographic Portrait, however I decided to create a nice typographic effect using just Photoshop. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a really cool and super easy typographic portrait in Photoshop. We will use the Displace filter and some Blend Modes to achieve the effect. The whole process is quite simple but it might take you some time to add the texts and elements, but once you do that the rest is very straight forward. Step 1 Open Photoshop and create a new document. Step 2 Duplicate the layer and go to Image>Adjustment>Desaturate. Step 3 With the Horizontal Type Tool (T) create text boxes and start adding texts. Step 4 Step 5 Step 6. Watch the Artist Make these Drawings.

To create these hyperrealist images, Marcello Barenghi uses diverse materials such as regular and colored pencils, pens, markers, acrylic paint, and more.

Watch the Artist Make these Drawings

Most of his work is done pretty quickly, taking from an hour to four. David Gaillet — worx. Songs you should dream to: You will forget Everything around you. (8 songs) Top 100 Photos of the Year 2012. *Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a POTD this year.

Top 100 Photos of the Year 2012

The pictures are also listed in reverse chronological order. There is no ranking amongst the photos Enjoy! Photograph by Robert Elves on Flickr Photograph by Stephen Wilkes | Prints available Photograph by George Steinmetz. Untitled. The Wilderness Downtown. Pencil sketches that seem to stand up off the page [12 pictures] Most of these drawings by Ramon Bruin seem relatively simple, but at the same time, because of their shadows and some intriguingly placed real-life props in the photographs, the sketched images appear to be almost magically leaving the bounds of the paper they’re drawn on…

Pencil sketches that seem to stand up off the page [12 pictures]

Fun with Foam Printing - Easy Tutorial. I loved this idea because not only can you recycle these horrid polystyrene containers, but the process is really simple.

Fun with Foam Printing - Easy Tutorial

You could even use tracing paper and trace your design so you don't even need to be able to draw. You could make a whole series of cards like this or just a colorful print to hang on your wall and cheer up the place. Materials needed: Call Me What You Like of Emeli Sandé in video on Jukebox. TAYLOR SWIFT LYRICS - Safe & Sound. I remember tears streaming down your face When I said, "I'll never let you go" When all those shadows almost killed your light I remember you said, "Don't leave me here alone" But all that's dead and gone and passed tonight Just close your eyes The sun is going down You'll be alright No one can hurt you now Come morning light You and I'll be safe and sound Don't you dare look out your window, darling, Everything's on fire The war outside our door keeps raging on Hold on to this lullaby Even when music's gone Gone Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh La La (La La) La La (La La) Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh Oooh, Oooh, Oooh, Oooh La La (La La)

TAYLOR SWIFT LYRICS - Safe & Sound

A Different Reality. “I’ve been drawing for as long as I remember myself. Both graphic design and digital art attract me, but recently I tend to commit to digital art more than anything else.” Alex Andreyev is an young artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia. His artworks are surreal, very creative, inspiring and captivating. Alive Without Breath: Three Dimensional Animals Painted in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye.

Singapore-based artist Keng Lye creates near life-like sculptures of animals relying on little but paint, resin and a phenomenal sense of perspective.

Alive Without Breath: Three Dimensional Animals Painted in Layers of Resin by Keng Lye

Lye slowly fills bowls, buckets, and boxes with alternating layers of acrylic paint and resin, creating aquatic animal life that looks so real it could almost pass for a photograph. The artist is using a technique very similar to Japanese painter Riusuke Fukahori who was featured on this blog a little over a year ago, though Lye seems to take things a step further by making his paint creations protrude from the surface, adding another level of dimension to a remarkable medium.

Yuki Matsueda. ‘While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces.

Yuki Matsueda

The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.’ Art 1. Optical Design. Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter ... Amazing 3D Drawings. Fredo’s artwork looks like it comes to life from a piece of paper.

Amazing 3D Drawings

It is outstanding! See also: “Pencil Art: Turn on the Light.” Photos © Fredo Link via Bored Panda. Music,AC/DC music acdc music bands 1600x1200 wallpaper – music,AC/DC music acdc music bands 1600x1200 wallpaper – Music Wallpaper. Moodstream™ by Getty Images. Drawing Board. Danse Macabre. A grim saraband of skeletons, coming to take you away.

Danse Macabre

Momento mori: remember that you must die. The middle ages preached this lesson with particular intensity. Graphic artists-- Hans Holbein most influentially-- responded to the urgency, to the undeniable power of this topos with scenes in which a dancing, skeletal Reaper came for the archbishop and the servant, the judge and the doctor, the mother and the child. In the nineteenth century the motif is re-energized by revolution and social upheaval, and heralds the arrival of a social fantastic with Alfred Rethel’s great series, Auch ein Todtentanz. Cornell’s extensive collection includes rare works that have never been reproduced in the literature devoted to the subject. View Images: Danse Macabre Studies: Clark, James M. Literary works: Playing with Displace Filter in Photoshop.

I have been playing a lot with the Displace filter in Photoshop and I still get impressed with how powerful it is. Even though I have written some tutorials using it, I decided to try to recreate a different effect that I saw in one of the images submitted for the Daily Inspiration. It was a brick wall deformed like it was made of cloth. So in this tutorial, or a quick-tips I will show you how to create a curtain made of bricks or how to deform a brick wall as it was a curtain.

To do that we wil use a few stock photos, layer adjustments and the Displace filter in Photoshop CS5. The technique is pretty simple and the tutorial won't take you more than 30 minutes to go through it. Cake postcard tutorial. Supplies Materials needed to make two cake postcards: 1 large sponge (yellow paints the best)Serrated knifeX-Acto or utility knifeSpray paint (brown, yellow, pink or white)1 tube acrylic latex caulk (brown, cream or white)Spray adhesive (3M Super 77 works great!)

Cardboard, kraft paper or scrapbook paper Instructions Cut sponge into wedge shape. Adobe Photoshop CS4 Basics. Most popular this week. How To Draw. "How to Draw" is a collection of tutorials that will teach you everything from perspective basics to shading chrome. Never picked up a pencil before? Fear not! From simple line drawings to modern art and easy animations, we've got you covered. How to Make Cherry Blossom Lights. Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light. Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls.

The best part is that you can easily create something similar at home – all you need is one or two lamps and some items from your desk. The stunning light painting below, made with an array of colored airplanes has found its way to exhibitions like the Fly to Baku at De Pury Gallery in London. Rashad adds, “Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light.

Above all things reverence thyself.” Comments comments. S complete list of Photoshop tutorials. Sketchbook Secrets: 50 Beautiful Sketchbook Scans. Creative Street Art. Art & Design A collection of funny, clever, and beautiful pieces of street art. Music.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object) 15-render-FG.jpg (JPEG Image, 1000 × 750 pixels) - Scaled (94. The Unique Banana Spilt. If you enjoy body art, you will probably like viewing this collection of hand paintings by Ray Massey. The image with pen and paper (within post) really tricked me! Photos © Ray Massey Link via Mighty Optical Illusions. Weird and twisted on the Behance Network. Phil Hansen: The art of the imperfect.

F E R I C. 352432_1246003810_large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1600 × 992 pixels) Stereomood - emotional internet radio - music for my mood and activities. Envisioning Disney Characters in "Real Life" on the Behance Network.