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Ten Ton Dreamweaver DVD offer ends Friday

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Way back on October 5, we held a giveaway where readers could land themselves a copy of Ten Ton’s latest training DVD, Ten Ton Dreamweaver. On October 13th, we announced our randomly drawn winner, and we made a special announcement about a promotional offer where [...]

Vectors Imitate Life with Gradient Mesh

When an artist is given a choice about creating a photo-realistic image on the computer, their first instinct would be to turn to any of the raster-based image editors, such as Photoshop. However, what if they were told that they needed to create this photo-realistic image in a vector-based image editor? Amazingly enough, with the advent of the "gradient mesh" feature, the creation of a photo-realistic image is completely doable in Adobe Illustrator.

Design A Killer Fashion Model Poster

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Introduction: This tutorial will show you how to make a killer Fashion Model Poster using basic Photoshop functions like Layer Styles, Vector Masks and Filters like Motion Blur. At a time when there’s more DOWNLOADING of source material than actually USING it, this tutorial [...]

Create a 3D Vector Labyrinth

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: A Square Foundation Let’s start off by creating a new document that’s 1024×768.  Name this first layer “Maze.”  Then, take the Rectangle tool and draw a 50×50 square.  Give this square a 10px black outline and no fill.  Then align it to the center of the [...]

Giveaway: Ten Ton Dreamweaver

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Heya readers! Geoff Blake here from TenTonBooks.com. Recently, we released our debut software training DVD Ten Ton Dreamweaver and we wanted to load the DVD with lots of freebies and extras. Well, the gang at Go Media were happy to help us out, and provided us [...]

Faking Depth of Field in Photoshop (w/Ps action)

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Here’s a quick technique that I use to fake depth of field in Photoshop and add realism to my images. I’ve seen this technique mentioned in various tutorials I’ve read, so it’s really nothing new. But it’s a good trick that I feel [...]

Quick Global Swatches In Adobe Illustrator

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Global swatches in Adobe Illustrator: they’re awesome. If you’re not aware of the power that is a global swatch, they are special color swatches that are applied like regular swatches, but when the swatch is changed, all vector objects [...]

Retro Modernist Poster Design with 3D Typography

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: What you will learn In this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to create a vintage, retro-modernist poster in Photoshop. You’ll also learn some vintage coloring techniques, retro photo effects, and some cool 3d typographic effects. You’ll also need Adobe Illustrator to create vector paths [...]