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A Basic Guide to Photoshop’s 3D Tools

Jan 11th in 3D, Tools & Tips by Alvaro Guzman

From opening a 3D file to rotating, scaling and moving it, working with meshes, creating textures or even materials, adding lights, and more, this tutorial covers most of the secrets of the useful feature 3D Tools of Photoshop CS4 Extended. If you have it, why don’t you try? I can assure you that you will discover a brand new world of infinite possibilities.

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How to Create Cityscape Concept Art

Dec 21st in 3D, Painting, Photo Effects by Miguel Santana da Silva

In this tutorial, I will teach you how to easily create a successful piece of cityscape concept art. We’ll be using a very basic 3D scene as a foundation for the piece, then taking it into Photoshop for some creative photo manipulation of reference photos, basic painting and adjustments. Let’s create this urban scene!

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Create a Funky Perspective of a Model Riding Digital Volume

Nov 3rd in 3D, Illustration, Photo Effects by Marcel Pirosca

This is a tutorial illustrating perspective techniques and how you can achieve the feeling of depth and motion. We will be doing this in a few steps, such as placing the main character, creating the volume fading away and adding foreground and background images. Let’s get started!

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Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment – Part II

Oct 27th in 3D, Text Effects by Alex Beltechi

We’re back with the second half of our Steampunk style type experiment! In this Part II, we’ll generate realistic textures and create a fitting scene for our text. Let’s get right to it!

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Create a Steam Powered Typographic Treatment – Part I

Oct 26th in 3D, Text Effects by Alex Beltechi

Whether or not you’re a Steampunk fan, this two part tutorial is sure to test your knowledge on Illustrator, Cinema 4D and Photoshop. In the first half, we’re going to customize a Blackletter font and create 3D text with vector shapes. There’s lots to do, so let’s start with the first part of this two-part series!

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How to Create 3D Text Blocks in Photoshop

Oct 12th in 3D by Eren Goksel

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create a 3D Blocks text effect. You need to have Adobe Photoshop CS4 Extended to practice this tutorial. This will be fun and I’m sure you can do lots of cool things using this technique. Let’s get started!

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Create a Shiny Earth with Photoshop 3D Layers

Oct 5th in 3D by Eren Goksel

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a shiny planet icon using the 3D features of Photoshop CS4 Extended. This will cover basic information about 3D layers and texture maps. Let’s get started!

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Render a Cereal Box Cover from Scratch Using Photoshop’s 3D Tools

Sep 22nd in 3D, Designing by Alvaro Guzman

Hi everyone! This time I’ve got for you a fun tutorial, we’ll create a cereal box design from scratch, using only Photoshop. We will render several fruit flavored cereal loops using the Photoshop’s CS4 Extended 3D tools, apply textures to the loops, bump the surfaces and mock-up them into a real 2D image. Are you ready?

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