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I've produced a few tutorials now and get asked about where they can be found quite often so I thought I would produce a full list. Not all of these are available for free online but back issues of the magazines they appear in are generally still available.
Abstract tutorial produced for Advanced Photoshop issue 43.
Abstract Poser and Photoshop tutorial produced for Advanced Photoshop issue 42.
Geometric 3D Photoshop tutorial produced for Advanced Photoshop issue 48.
Old tutorials
These are all from a few years ago when I still had enough spare time to knock out the odd tutorial now and then for no reason other than self amusement.
They are all still available on my website but require a bit of digging to find. They are mostly written for version CS or earlier and may be a little dated, hopefully there's still some good stuff in there though.
Layer styles
Dashed stroke
Soft blend
Optimising Photoshop
Clear plastic
Burnt paper
Perfect Extractions
Colouring
Quick photo touchup
Layer masks
The edge
Corroded metal
That's all of them I think, hope you find them useful.
Templar progression
I always take progress shots of my work at regular intervals. In the case of 'Templar', which took a fair amount of time, this ended up with about 35 different shots. I thought I'd show about half of them here rather than have them sit about unseen.
Umm um um
I made a couple of different versions of my recent cakes wallpaper and thought I'd stick them here as I haven't got much else to do with them:
as well as the slightly more frenetic:
The thing about these two is that they are fully tileable. So if you want to use them as a wallpaper, just set them to tile, rather than stretch or centre and they should seamlessly fill any sized desktop.
Personally I think they could make nice wrapping paper or laptop covers or something like that as well. If I had the time I would probably pursue that thought.
On an unrelated note I finally updated my website fairly recently, after almost 5 years of the old
Old games 2
While I'm waiting around for some boring renders to finish, I thought it would be best to follow on my post about old games with another. I've only had a year and a half to think about what I should put in the list this time and have come up with another 6 classics.
Now as before if anyone has some old games (pre-2000 I'll say, one of mine only just sneaks in there) that I've forgotten about I'd love to hear them. I fear the part of my brain that remembers that far back has been eroded away by excessive redbull and porn.
So in no particular order (with the last one as an exception) here they are:
1) Cannon Fodder
Just 4 little guys agains
Old games
I like computer games, or I liked them that is. Since discovering Photoshop however many years ago now they have been pushed to the sidelines to the extent that I don't really have time for them any more. Which is a shame as given the advances in technology they are probably pretty fantastic these days. Once I would have killed to be able to play on the sort of system I have now, now the only games I play are stupid Flash based ones when I'm bored that probably use about 1% of the computer's power.
Anyway I felt like reminiscing a bit about some old games that I liked, to see if anyone else there remembers/played them and what you liked. I'v
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Hi Nik! i'm a big fan of yours and got here, to your tutorials just by luck and saw this one posted above: Abstract tutorial produced for Advanced Photoshop issue 43... i find it interesting cause the i've been trying to do that from another tutorial from an abstract horse in the same magazine and now i find yours (i was interested not in the horse part, but in the distorted image to produce another image from that, abstract or not)... but there's one thing bothering me about this technique that i just can figure how to do it... after a few actions played the copies of the intial image gets distorted like angled (sorry for my lame english) is there a way to solve this or at some point some of this figures must be fixed?
i'm still very noob in this photoshop world and i will be very grateful if you please can answer my question
Thanks in advance and i must say that with your latest images, you have surpased yourself... i love both of them but especially julia!
by the way only for curiosity... how big they really are? and how long did it take you to complete both of them? you also said that 80% of the image was 3d... that includes the grass on the face, the rocks and stuff like that or just the base of the image?
thanks man!!
i'm still very noob in this photoshop world and i will be very grateful if you please can answer my question
Thanks in advance and i must say that with your latest images, you have surpased yourself... i love both of them but especially julia!
by the way only for curiosity... how big they really are? and how long did it take you to complete both of them? you also said that 80% of the image was 3d... that includes the grass on the face, the rocks and stuff like that or just the base of the image?
thanks man!!