5 Creative Ways to Hack Your Facebook Profile Photo This is a guest post by Rob Banagale. Rob Banagale is co-founder of Neutrinos, LLC, a digital media company specializing in iPhone application design and consulting based in Boston, MA. Rob advises clients on how they can extend their marketing reach to iPhone users, including the iPhone application publishing process. He has authored a Facebook application and remains interested in the design of social media platforms. Coolwhip hair dude. One of the most important parts of a person’s Facebook presence is their profile photo. Typically, a profile photo shows someone’s face, and appears in front of the light blue-grey line that connects from the left side of the profile to the left-most tab. Hacking the Facebook Profile Photo There isn’t a legal way to ‘hack’ Facebook, but there is a method to changing your profile photo to make your profile look subtly different and cooler. How Does It Work? The first thing you need to understand is how much space you have to play with. Hack Caveats
50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials - Smashing Magazine Photoshop’s text and layer tools can be used to create some really awesome effects. We’ve put together a list of 60 of the best tutorials we could find to help you stay up to date on the latest trends and techniques. You’ll find some really cool grunge and glass styles (plus a few surprises!) and learn how some of the best designers create their unique effects. Courtesy: LemonDesign1 Instead of listing 100 plus tutorials that you’ll bookmark never to come back, we’ve decided to take you through the basics of typography, hopefully inspiring and then teaching you. You may want to take a look at the following related posts: Introduction to Typography Link Typography is the art of arranging type, designing type, and modifying type glyphs. Here are some resources to give you further insight: The Wisest Mind Has Something Yet to Learn Link And we, too, never stop being inspired, learning and creating: How to Choose the Right Type Link Guess if you can, choose if you dare. Resources to Live by Link
Making of PhotoRealistic Actress In 3D Making of PhotoRealistic Actress In 3DMaking-of by CG artist, MAX Wahyudi CGIndia Feature CGIndia bring you quite Useful and Free tutorial for Maya Users. The tutorials is created by CG Artist MAX Wahyudi who shows us Making of "PhotoRealistic Actress In 3D using Autodesks Maya". If you like to share your knowledge with CG Community and have any tutorials, we will be glad to feature them on our website along with description about author and website link. Send your tutorials to cgindia@gmail.com Making of by MAX Wahyudi Reference Finding good reference is the key to making a good likeness, for that I always use screen captures from movies because sometimes you can find shots where the character turns and the camera distortion is always the same and predictable. Modeling I use an old base mesh and jump straight into zbrush for tweaking. Eye The Eye ball consist of 2 parts, the inner part used a SSS material and the outer part used a PhongE material. Click to Enlarge Texturing Note: Hair Lighting
How to Enhance Photos With a Pen Tablet Have you ever come across a photo where all the highlights and shadows seem just too good to be true? If it's not HDR processing, it's pen tablet magic. Find out in this tutorial how to give a regular image a subtle, artistic feel with some clever brush work. Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Video Tutorial I created these videos to compliment this text + image tutorial. Step 1 The first thing you need to do is download this photo of a tiger. Step 2 Now it's time to separate the tiger from the background. To avoid any damage to the photo though, we'll do that through a Layer Mask. It's important that you do this with a tablet and at very low levels of Opacity. Step 3 Eliminate as much as you can with the background, but don't go over the tiger itself. Step 4 Reduce the brush size and go right up to the outline of the tiger. Step 5 Now use a large brush and cover the left side of its face and the top of the body. Step 6 Step 7 Step 8 Step 9 Step 10 Step 11 Step 12 Step 13
Create a Colorful Cake Illustration in Photoshop Photoshop is a very powerful illustration tool and today we will make a wonderful, tasty, and colorful cake without having to do the dishes afterwards. I had based this tutorial on the cake from my set of icons that I created earlier and which enjoys great popularity. This illustration was created using Photoshop shapes and a bit of painting. If you don’t know how to work with Pen Tool you can first get acquainted with this lesson that fully explains all the functions of this tool. Let’s get started! Tutorial Assets The following materials were used during the production of this tutorial. Step 1 Create 1000x1000px document in Photoshop (Cmd/Ctrl + N). Step 2 I made a quick sketch in Photoshop and choose the color palette. Set sketch layer opacity to 10%, blending mode to Multiply, put it above all other layers and lock it. Step 3 Create an ellipse on the top of the cake using Ellipse Tool (U) and color #2. Duplicate the ellipse to the bottom of the cake, scale it and set color #3. Step 4 Step 5
Create Super Glossy 3D Type In today’s tutorial we will demonstrate how to create super glossy 3D typography using Illustrator and Photoshop. Let’s get started! Open Illustrator and create a new RGB document, 1000px by 800px, 72 DPI, and write your text in a nice big font. I've used Marketing Script size 234pt. Next, with you text selected, go to Object > Expand, and hit ok on the pop up window. Our text is no longer editable as text, instead it's a series of paths that we can edit with the direct selection tool. Currently, our letters are separate objects grouped together, we want them to be one single compound path. With the Pen Tool (P) selected, draw a new path starting from the last flick of the last letter s, and swirling its way down underneath our type. Change the Stroke Weight of our new path to a size that matches the width of the text path that it will be joining. Duplicate this path by dragging the Group's thumbnail (in the layers palette) to the New Layer button. You should now have six groups -
Create Light Painted Typography From Scratch in Photoshop This tutorial was originally published in April 2011 as a Tuts+ Premium tutorial. It is now available free to view. Although this tutorial does not use the latest version of Adobe Photoshop, its techniques and process are still relevant. If you’ve ever attempted to write words using traditional light painting photography techniques, you probably know how challenging it can be to create words that are easy to read. In this tutorial, we will demonstrate how you can create a similar look without a camera and tripod. Let’s start in Photoshop. We want the overall shape to form a heart, so draw a heart really quickly. Use the guideline to draw in your text with a tablet. For this single step, I’m going to switch to Illustrator. Paste it in Photoshop as a Path (Command/Control-V, select Path in the pop-up dialog). Select the Brush Tool (B) and change your brush to a 100% soft edged, 10 px diameter brush. Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Reduce the Opacity by approx. 50% and duplicate it.
Advanced Glow Effects In this tutorial, we're going to create some really sharp-looking glow effects using a combination of layer styles, the Pen Tool and Color Blending. The end effect is quite stunning and hopefully you'll pick up some tips you didn't know before. As with pretty much every tutorial I've ever written, we begin with a radial gradient. Foreground color - #922f00 Background color - #000000 In this tutorial, we actually need a pretty intense center, so what we'll do is duplicate the layer we just made and set the one above to a blending mode of Color Dodge. Now in our glow effect, it helps to have a nice textured background. Then go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Now set the opacity of your layer to Overlay and 30% transparency. So go to Filter > Sketch > Chrome and use default settings of 4 and 7 for detail and smoothness respectively. When you're done, the result should look a lot smokier (once its overlayed at 30% transparency that is). In fact all we want to achieve are some nice curves.
PSGallery :: Metal Text 1: We're going to try to get a really metallic chrome effect on our text, using curves and other features in Photoshop. Start off with a large canvas, the larger the better - I'm using 800x800. Make some text and have it a light-medium grey, in the example I'll use #B3B3B3. Start off by using a nice big bevel and emboss with settings similar to these . As usual, the size should be suitable for the size of the image; try to make it look like the example. 2: Now we need to rasterize our layer. Now we need to adjust the image using curves - press ctrl/cmd + M to open the curves menu, then enter a nice even zig zag, as shown here . 3: Go , set the slider at the top to one notch from the bottom, and then click once on the 'Current Pick' box, once on the 'More Blue' box, and then once on the 'More Green' box - now click OK. Now add a drop shadow using the default settings by going and clicking OK. 4: Now use the layer styles again ( ) to add an inner glow using these settings.
Rusty Silver and Gold Text Effect - Photoshop tutorial This is our 9th tutorial for text effects so if you like it you might also be interested in taking a look at the text effects category. If my tutorials are not enough, I can only do so much, you can also take a look at my list of great tutorials on how to create different text styes. Here is the list: the best text tutorials on the internet. First I will create a pattern in Photshop to use it in the next steps, to create a bumped text effect. Our canvas is 100 px width and 100 px height. Ok, now let's return to our gray rectangle. Click the Vector Mask Thumbnail of the Circle layer and press CTRL + C. Now move the Circle Layer in the top right corner of the rectangle so that a 1/4 slice of the circle remains in the visible area. Now move the circle 3 more times so that we cover all the remaining corners. The next step is to extract the circle vector shapes from the rectangle and obtain a new vector shape. Now press Substract from shape area, like shown in the image:
Blending Life 2010 « BenSimonds.com After learning so much from last year’s blending life competition, I couldn’t wait to test out what I’d learned since in making my entry this year. It was tremendous fun to do and I had great feedback from the BlenderArtists community as I went along. Anyway, I thought that as the competition still has a few weeks left I’d do a bit of a making of/tutorial type blog post along with the final image, to hopefully give some tips to those still working on similar projects. More after the jump. Concept: The first task in any project for me is to collect my thoughts and inspirations as to what it is I want to make. Modelling: I find modelling with orthographic references for faces often results in an overly smooth look that I later end up working hard to get rid of. This way I think forces me to concentrate more on the form, and visualise it myself in 3D before modelling it, which I think results in capturing much more character in the model on the first pass. Sculpting: Texturing/Shaders: Hair: