This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

Before the advent of computers, the movie industry relied on stop-frame or stop-motion animation to bring their monsters to life; special effect artists such as Ray Harryhausen used this technique on classics such as “One Million Years BC” and “The Valley of Gwangi“. The 1950s also witnessed a 3D movie explosion — and Hollywood’s recent 3D revival means moviegoers of today can experience the next generation of 3D technology.

In this tutorial, we’ll take inspiration from these movies of yesteryear and recreate a retro B-movie styled poster. I’ll walk you through entire creation process, step-by-step using photography and 3D renders. Then we’ll take a jump into the third-dimension — by adding effects only visible when viewed through anaglyph 3D glasses. So hold onto your seats, because stunning sights really will leap at you in 3D — just as the poster says!

Tutorial Details

• Program: Adobe Photoshop CS3 or later
• Difficulty: Advanced
• Estimated Completion Time: 6 hours

A preview of the final image is below.

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Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from this tutorial.

PSD Plus Membership

As you know, we run a premium membership system here called ‘Plus’ that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the Source files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to Net Plus and Vector Plus, too. If you’re a Plus member, you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!

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This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

In this tutorial, I do a walk-through of the “NOMENA” Illustration of my SVSV/Pilot Mag Series. You’ll how to create unique, hand drawn lettering mixed with a photo and textures. Let’s get stared!

Plus members can Log in and Download! If you’re not a member, you can of course join today! Below is the final image we’ll be creating in this tutorial.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from this tutorial.

PSD Plus Membership

As you know, we run a premium membership system here called ‘Plus’ that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the Source files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to Net Plus and Vector Plus, too. If you’re a Plus member, you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!

Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the Psdtuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest Photoshop tutorials and articles.

New Exclusive High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

This new Photoshop Brushes Pack is created by Qbrushes and is available for Psd Plus members today. This is a set of 16 Brushes, which are all high resolution at around 2500 pixels by 2500 pixels. Members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! A preview of the brushes are below.

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Psd Plus Membership

As you know, we run a premium membership system here called Psdtuts+ Plus that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the PSD files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! If you’re a member you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!

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This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

In today’s tutorial we will be focusing on creating a flowing aesthetic that works great for a Product Advertisement, and I will be guiding you by using an image I created for the Tiger Beer company in Singapore.

Tiger Beer commissioned this image for their exhibition “Tiger Translate.” The image ended up not being used by the Tiger Beer company for theme relation purposes, but aesthetically they were very pleased with the outcome. I’ve decided to share that workflow and process with you Psd Plus readers today in the hopes that you can utilize these techniques when given a product advertisement job!

Plus members can Log in and Download! If you’re not a member, you can of course join today! Below is the final image we’ll be creating in this tutorial.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from this tutorial.

PSD Plus Membership

As you know, we run a premium membership system here called ‘Plus’ that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the Source files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to Net Plus and Vector Plus, too. If you’re a Plus member, you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!

Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the Psdtuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest Photoshop tutorials and articles.

This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Techniques

For quite some time I’ve been thinking about simplifying my everyday tasks in Photoshop. Over the years I have collected tons of different techniques… here is one of them. In this tutorial I’m going to show how to "burn an apartment" building in a few easy steps.

Plus members can Log in and Download! If you’re not a member, you can of course join today! Below is the final image we’ll be creating in this tutorial.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from this tutorial.

PSD Plus Membership

As you know, we run a premium membership system here called ‘Plus’ that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the Source files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to Net Plus and Vector Plus, too. If you’re a Plus member, you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!

Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the Psdtuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest Photoshop tutorials and articles.

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For the chance to win the Ps Icon pillow pictured above all you need to do is comment. Make sure to include your correct email address with your comment so that we can contact you. This giveaway is open worldwide, but make sure to get your comment in before midnight this Friday, Pacific Eastern Standard Time.

To increase your chances of winning, make sure to enter again once on each Tuts+ site. There are a total of 8 pillows to be won!

If one pillow isn’t enough, you can order the whole set from MySuiteStuff.

Please note: Envato staff and people who have written more than two tutorials/articles for a Tuts+ site are not eligible to enter.

Last week Adobe asked us to change our name and URL so that it would no longer contain the term ‘Flash’, which is a registered trademark of Adobe. We know that the success of our sites is about the community and content, not the names. So here at Envato HQ we’ve been busy thinking up new names and we think we’ve found a great new home for both our marketplace and our Tuts+ blog on Flash.

As of today the two sites now live at ActiveDen and Activetuts+.

The new names amend the use of the word Flash, open us up for adding other technologies and are short and memorable! To kick off the new names I thought I’d round up a few of the best tutorials and items on the sites:

Kick Ass Flash Files – ActiveDen

Without a doubt the leading marketplace for Flash files, ActiveDen has some really popular files. Here are a few of the latest:

More Popular Items on ActiveDen

Killer Flash Tutorials – Activetuts+

Though it’s one of our newer Tuts+ sites, Activetuts+ is already brim full of quality Adobe Flash, ActionScript, Air and Flex tutorials and gaining momentum with every passing week. Here’s a few of the standout tutorials:

1. Build a Fluid Website Layout
   A fluid web layout uses 100% width (and height) of the browser, floating all the contained elements into certain positions. This is opposed to fix-width layout where contents remain fixed no matter what the browser size is…

2. Create an Attractive Digital Clock in Flash
   ActionScript 3.0 is a very powerful language, capable of creating anything from simple and light utilities to full-featured desktop applications…

3. Build a Mini Golf Game with ActionScript 3.0
   In this tutorial I´ll show you how to create nice Mini Golf Game with ActionScript 3.0. We´ll work with Event Handlers, Functions and also the Timer Object which is a really cool feature in AS3…

4. Build a Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control
   In this tutorial, we’ll create a gallery which displays all image files in a given directory. A slider is used to browse easily through the images…

5. Create a Shuffle Gallery in Flash Using XML and ActionScript 3.0
   In this tutorial I’ll explain how to access and use the Display List whilst creating an XML based image gallery with ActionScript 3.0 …

6. Create a Glowin Mouse Trailer in Flash
   Mouse Trailers are objects which follow the mouse cursor as you move it. In this tutorial, I’ll help you create a blue and shiny mouse trailer using ActionScript 3.0 …

More Flash Tutorials on Activetuts+

More About The Change

You can read more about the change on the ActiveDen Blog or on TechCrunch. There’s also a super long discussion thread on the ActiveDen Forums.

I’d also like to take a moment to say thanks to everyone for helping us with the transition and supporting FlashDen through three years of amazing growth and community, here’s to many more as ActiveDen!

Blog Action Day 2009

This wallpaper design is part of Blog Action Day 2009, a worldwide initiative started by Envato founders Collis and Cyan Ta’eed, now being run by Change.org. Blog Action Day exists to change the conversation on the web for one day by uniting thousands of bloggers around one important issue – this year, Climate Change. It’s not too late to register your blog and participate.

Free Wallpaper from Alex Beltechi

I’ve created an organic wallpaper design for you to download free. It illustrates the text “Changing Actions” by embedding various climate images inside the 3D text. Blending various climate images and related animals inside the word “Actions” shows how we need to start changing our actions now to preserve our environment and avoid continued global climate problems. You can see more of my work in my Behance Portfolio.

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Conceptual Development of this Design

Creating this typographic illustration for Blog Action Day has been a very exciting project. The words I use in this illustrations are mere excuses for practice most of the time, so it was a relief to have a well defined topic and to be a part of something so important.

The demand was for a positive and inspiring message, and after some art direction from Sean Hodge, we settled on the words “Changing Actions.” I intended to not only show a rich and diverse natural environment, but also a different kinds of impact that man can have on the world. Instead of destruction and damage, the focus is on preservation and protection.

The way that this concept took form was by placing all the nature elements inside a clean and simple typographic layout. The letters became a haven for several ecosystems, which I blended seamlessly throughout the word “Actions.” After creating the text in Cinema 4D, I scoured the web for nature stock photography and began to slice up the images in place. Throughout the process, I used a pen tablet to modify, recreate, and draw elements in place.

I hope this message finds its way to your desktop, and drives you take action!

Check out a section of detail in this design below (100% zoom).

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This Plus Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

Working within a limited budget is a discipline that every designer must master – especially in the current economic climate. Knowing how to squeeze every last drop from a tight budget and still produce something eye catching requires some understanding of different printing techniques.

In this tutorial, we’ll forget about expensive four-color printing and limit ourselves to just one spot color – black! Working in black-and-white is more challenging and also imposes limits on the design process – done right, its simplicity and stark contrast will capture and engage the viewer.

As well as rediscovering the beauty of monochrome, you’ll also add a clear, gloss spot UV varnish to selective areas; this will have the effect of highlighting and drawing attention to parts of the design when the printed piece is moved under different light conditions. So, as a perfect example to showcase these techniques, I briefed myself to design an A5, double-sided, self-promotional mailer.

As far a techniques go, you’ll learn how to use an additional Alpha channel to create the spot varnish artwork; then create your own geometric pattern library with Illustrator. Next we’ll show you how to bring everything together with InDesign. Finally, you’ll get to grips with preflighting your artwork with InDesign and Acrobat Professional – ensuring it’s error-free and printer-friendly.

Plus members can Log in and Download! If you’re not a member, you can of course join today! Below is the final image we’ll be creating in this tutorial.

Professional and Detailed Instructions Inside

Plus members can Log in and Download! Otherwise, Join Now! Below are some sample images from this tutorial.

PSD Plus Membership

As you know, we run a premium membership system here called ‘Plus’ that costs $9 a month (or $22 for 3 months!) which gives members access to the Source files for tutorials as well as periodic extra tutorials, like this one! You’ll also get access to Net Plus and Vector Plus, too. If you’re a Plus member, you can log in and download the tutorial. If you’re not a member, you can of course join today!

Also, don’t forget to subscribe to the Psdtuts+ RSS Feed to stay up to date with the latest Photoshop tutorials and articles.

With 5 sites now offering Plus content, $9 a month gives you universal access to each – a little under $2 per month for each site. This moves us closer to our goal of offering the best possible low-cost, high-quality education to creatives. If you’re not a Plus member, don’t miss-out: you can join now.

If you’ve ever been interested in learning more about motion graphics, now is a great time to start. Plus members can log-in and immediately download a collection of AE project files and a two-part tutorial from AE legend Lloyd Alvarez. To read more about Ae Plus, click here. Not a Plus member yet? You can learn more or join now.