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Showing posts with label Photoshop CS6. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photoshop CS6. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser

In today’s tutorial We will walk you from beginning to end of the entire process of setting up and rendering a 3D . we will show how to flawlessly blend 3D renders with stock images using digital painting techniques to create a stunning sci-fi illustration. So don’t be anxious if your drawing skills are not you’re strongest quality – in fact, Poser was originally developed as a practical dummy to assist artists and comic book creators, so let’s get on track!

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser

Step 1
Launch Poser, select the default figure in the main viewport and hit delete. Go to Library > Figures > Daz People > Michael 4, highlight the thumbnail and click the Create New Figure tick at the foot of the palette to load the model. At this stage were not concerned with textures, so select Smooth Shaded under Document Display Style.

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser

Step 2

Select the Coalition Rapier library (found under Figures > Mestophales > Coalition > Rapier). Select the top Rapier icon and click the Create New Figure double-tick icon. Ensure the suit is selected, then choose Figure > Conform To and select Michael 4 in the following window to make the suit follow the figures movements.

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser

Step 3
With the suit still selected, choose Pose > Mestophales > Coalition > Rapier and highlight the Mat-Armor-1 Olive thumbnail, then click the Apply Library Preset tick. Now to add the weapon. I found this pulse rifle in old library, but you can easily use something similar from DAZ3D such as these sci-fi rifles.
Load the weapon, mine is not a Smart Prop, so I had to use the Transform Parameter dials to rotate and position it just below the figures right arm.

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser

Step 4
Select Four Ports from the bottom-left pull-down menu and use the Camera Controls to access the best position/angle to view the right hand and weapon. Now fine-tune the Transform Parameter dials to accurately position the weapon.

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser

Step 5
Select Michael’s right hand and apply the Grab preset pose (Library > Hands > P6 Male). Now select each individual finger/thumb mesh in turn and adjust them to grasp the trigger and handle.

Creating a Stunning Sci-fi Illustration Using Photoshop and Poser
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Photo Retouch Using Split Frequency Healing In Photoshop

Split Frequency Healing is a method that you can apply in Photoshop that will allow you retouch photos without affecting the photo’s relevant tone or texture. In this tutorial, commercial retouch artist, Daniel Meadows, who has worked for clients such as Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Chanel, and L’Oreal Paris, will elucidate this technique and how it can be used in your workflow.

Final Image

Photo Retouch Using Split Frequency Healing In Photoshop

Take a look at the picture which we are using for this tutorial. Client might give you a typical example of markup image below. It might be a jpeg or scan of a pen-annotated print or just a set of directions or suggestions, but ultimately you’ll be expected to deliver on a set brief.

Photo Retouch Using Split Frequency Healing In Photoshop

We have instructions to clean up the image, a little liquefy for a more pleasing curve to the back and waist, and to remove the purple-blue tone from the model’s legs. I’ll cover the techniques you’ll need to complete the shot over the course of several tutorials. Remember not to deviate too far from what your client is asking for, run it by them first. If you think a background color change is really going to make the subject pop, try discussing your ideas, especially if it’s for a portfolio project. If it’s a commercial or editorial job however and the art director wants neutral white, he or she of course, gets white.
There are quite a few ways to achieve a similar result in Photoshop, and I’ll be going through a number of them, often focusing on one in particular and giving a couple of alternatives you might want to try.
The first step we’re going to follow in completing this shot is the healing, the ‘basic cleanup.’ For this we’re going to be mostly using the clone stamp (S), but we’ll do it a little differently to the way the software intended. Be sure to start off using the key commands for your tools, you’ll save yourself a lot of time in the long run. When you’re trying to meet an unreasonable deadline and your left hand is bringing up every tool and command without giving it a thought you’ll thank me for it. Take a look at the look at the shot we have to work with.

Photo Retouch Using Split Frequency Healing In Photoshop

The lighting’s a blessing, the well defined shadows and highlights give us a great guide to follow when we come to carving, but we’ll get to that. The skin is very good, with just enough marks and texture variance to give us a good run at the exercise. Remember that with high end commercial retouching you’re going to be getting professional models with great skin, great lighting, make up, wardrobe etc. It isn’t about changing the shot, or the model, it’s about perfecting it. Here’s a close up of the kind of texture variations I mentioned.

Photo Retouch Using Split Frequency Healing In Photoshop

It might be instinctive to head straight for the clone stamp or healing tools, but the clone stamp will carry luminosity and tone with it, causing problems in light to shadow or vice versa. The healing tools carry the texture and then attempt to approximate the tone and luminosity with an algorithm. What if there was a way of cloning nothing but the texture,ignoring the luminosity and tone, and simply replacing a piece of texture elsewhere? Well we’ve got one, and it’s called frequency separation. (Read More)

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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Photoshop CS6 With New Oil Paint Filter

Photoshop CS6 With New Oil Paint Filter


Photoshop CS6 introduces some new filters which are very powerful tool in Photoshop. It will help you to apply quick effects to your images. The new Oil Paint filter in Photoshop CS6 will give any image a painted look. In this tutorial, we will introduce you to this new filter. So let’s explore it..


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