PLUS members, get excited. We have a new tutorial from master digital illustrator and designer Matthias Bäuerle of Season Zero. Here are his other sites: Season Zero on Behance and Season Zero on Flickr, so you can see his high quality work. He's created a PLUS tutorial that details his process for creating stunning Metal Album Artwork in Photoshop. Jump over to your PLUS account and download it today.
Creating Artwork For An Epic Metal Album
The tutorial is available as a download package through your PSDTUTS Plus membership. The download includes the HTML tutorial files, and the layered PSD as well. Below is the Final Image Preview. Matthias does a great job of showing the overall process of creating this photo-manipulation illustration. He also gives expert advice along the way.
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( ADD YOURS )Good-Walls July 31st
Great job! Great Tutorial…. can learn a lot from this
( )steeze July 31st
Looks nice, I’ll try it out later
( )rob July 31st
That really is epic
( )Sean July 31st
I saw this image in my feed reader… and peed my pants. :O
( )Jimizm July 31st
Too bad im not a +member :<
( )Nouman Saleem July 31st
powermetal status
( )Track 6 July 31st
This is what I’m talking about!! I’ll pay the 9 bucks just to get in there and check this one out.
( )Robin July 31st
Great image here. Even though I’m not a plus member, you guys at PSDTUTS have given us more than enough of your expertise and patience to deconstruct this and try it on our own. Thanks. I’ll be adding a link to your site when mine is finally up.
( )Max | Design Shard July 31st
Pretty cool
Max | Design Shard
( )Rommel July 31st
yeah i now see
( )Joefrey Mahusay July 31st
This design makes me say AWESOME! Keep up the great work!
( )Jacob July 31st
Yeap. This is enough to make me want to go Plus.
( )Nate July 31st
Makes me happy to be a + member.
( )Ariful Alam Khan July 31st
Should be nice. But I don’t have membership
( )dlv July 31st
really nice one…i’m not a plus member, but it nice to see you offering good material for those who have launched the membership
keep going, this it’s going to be the best tutorial site!!
adeux
( )Mark Abucayon July 31st
That is excellent you know I like this much thank you for sharing.
( )cpg July 31st
SUPRA KITCH… Je ne vois pas bien l’intérêt de payer pour avoir accès à des trucs aussi vilains. Ça craint les gars on est en 2008 !
( )MGK July 31st
@cpg : pour ton info, un tuto n’est pas fait pour être recopié de A à Z mais pour y apprendre les techniques. Tu trouves ça kitch ? alors ne l’utilise pas. Certaines personnes ont peut-être besoin de ces techniques là pour progresser, pour une créa, ou simplement parce qu’ils aiment le style ! 2008 qu’il dit.. non mais à t’écouter, il ne faut que des trucs lumineux avec les mêmes styles, les mêmes effets, plein de couleurs rainbow partout et hop c’est dans la boîte…
De plus, l’accès aux tutos PLUS te permet d’avoir accès à tout un tas d’autres tutos, de remercier les personnes qui te permettent d’en profiter etc…
ps : si je te demandais de me faire une affiche type “Lord of the rings” pour demain, payé 300 euros. Tu vas me dire que c’est trop kitch ? … réfléchi un peu.
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@ cpg: For your info, a tutorial is not meant to be copied from A to Z, but to learn techniques. You find it kitsch? then do not use it. Some people may need these techniques in order to move forward, for an artwork, or simply because they like the style! 2008 he says … listening to you, it takes only things with light, with the same styles, the same effects, full of rainbow colors everywhere and bravo it is in the box …
In addition, access to tutorials PLUS allows you to have access to a lot of other tutorials, to thank the people who allow you to enjoy those free ones etc …
ps: if I ask you to do me a poster “Lord of the rings” for tomorrow, paid 300 euros. Would you tell me that it’s too kitsch? … think a little.
( )Youri July 31st
Excellent piece Matthias (can’t see the tutorial obviously!).
( )Shane July 31st
lol@Epic Metal Album
( )Andrei Constantin July 31st
very nice, i like it a lot
( )Nono July 31st
Sorry,
Perspective and scale don’t match between foreground and background. Plus, your background elements are too sharp and contrasted. The knight and his horse seem to float and i note a transpareent rock on their left. Some volunteer for a simple and efficient photo composition or matte-painting tutorial ?
I think PSDTUTS site has a quality issue. The site needs to feed its visitors and we all know that photoshop skills and tips go round after a while so there is not much new with the time passing and we end up with this kind of desastrous title : Creating Artwork for an Epic Metal Album providing even more desastrous result.
( )Simona July 31st
I like it! It’s dynamic. @cpg: Personne n’est forcé de payer! Si tu n’aime pas, tu n’aime pas. Le beau est dans l’oeil du spectateur.
( )insic July 31st
looks great, i want the plus!
( )Urban July 31st
I agree with NoNo
Some elements of this tutorial, (from the preview), seem to be a little poorly thought about.
Far too much contrast, very good effort, but i wouldn’t pay $9 a month for something od this standard.
i’m not here to start any argument, but simply offer my opion.
just my 2 cents worth
( )UrbanCool
Craig Snedeker July 31st
Man THATS WICKED AWESOME!!! I wish I had photoshop/a plus membership.
( )BORABORA July 31st
Look’s really nice.
( )Brian July 31st
I just feel awesome knowing that I’m commenting on such and epic tutorial.
( )calvin August 1st
i can’t imagine why you’d tease us like this.
( )godonholiday August 1st
I love this… If you have a look at his other work… the porcelain girl with the gun and tattoos? Anyone know how to get the white colour like that?
( )Braden Keith August 1st
That looks very nice.
( )timbe August 1st
It’s missing the dragonforce titling
( )Digital Revolutions August 1st
Look great…. except for issue of a transparent rock! Why on earth would a cloak be visible through a rock?
( )Matthias | Season Zero August 1st
Hey guys,
first of all I would like to thank everyone for your comments. I have to admit this magical yet a bit odd transparent stone is definately a wonder of nature that I truly wish I could explain *g* Just kidding. My fault – but nothing that changes the issue of this “tutorial”. It’s not about explaining one effect or making a perfectly realistic composing (there are no grunge texture in real life).
The title is also just totally ironic and the picture is completely stereotype (and I also wrote that in the tutorial itself) but in the end I hope it can show you how to approach something like that, that is in fact a bit different to the current vibrant color artworks (that I like too).
And yes I try to sell it to Dragonforce – business baby *g*
yours
( )matthias
Jad Graphics August 6th
Man, oh man! I really need to subscribe to the Plus section!
( )Pepekun November 26th
Were not you can get free? I do not have the code. and I can not catch me tutorial
( )Pepekun November 26th
What is the code?
( )Greg March 16th
9$ are too much ^^ I love free tuts and love the authors. pic looks nice
( )(need some money for the + membership xD)