Create a Photo Realistic Motorcycle Helmet in Photoshop – Psd Premium Tutorial
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Create a Photo Realistic Motorcycle Helmet in Photoshop – Psd Premium Tutorial

on Jul 8th 2010 with 14 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS+
  • Difficulty: Advanced
  • Estimated Completion Time: More Than 3 Hours
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Today, we have another Psd Premium tutorial exclusively available to Premium members. If you want to take your product design skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more after the jump!

This Premium Tutorial is Filled with Creative Tips

In my last tutorial, we created a Photo Realistic Energy Drink from a photograph. This time we will be creating a product from the ground up, starting with a sketch. I love motorcycles and I love riding my R6, so I thought this would be a fun project; as I have always wanted to create my own helmet artwork. This is an extremely advanced Photoshop tutorial, so be warned. I know professional designers that have been in the industry for 10+ years that would have a hard time with this one.

If you are a beginner and are unable to follow along, I would recommend opening the Photoshop file to poke around, check out the extras, and look at all the masks, paths, and evidence of how things were created. Sometimes you can learn so much just from poking around an advanced PSD file. A good amount of this tutorial is just based on "look." Depending on how well you paint/illustrate/brush will require you to have slightly different settings than the ones I use (layer mode %’s). If anything, you will see the process and method I used to attack this project.

Please feel free to ask any questions in the comments section, and I will try to answer them as soon as possible. Hope you enjoy!

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I am from Cincinnati, OH USA and have been a professional Graphic Designer since 2005. With a BFA in Graphic Design, I have worked at one of the world's largest branding firms, in-house at a bicycle company, and now am the design manager for a glove manufacturer. I consider myself a jack-of-all-trades with experience in branding, packaging, product design, photography, motion graphics, and 3D.  

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  • http://izebrah.deviantart.com/ iZebrah

    Looks pretty neat, good job! (:

  • flyingfox

    The air intake’s perspective is off (the lower one a lot more than the upper one).

    Otherwise good result.

  • http://freecss.info CSS Templates

    Sweet outcome but im not entirely sure what use I would have for an illustration of a motorcycle helmet.

    • http://www.shaneparkerphoto.com Shane Parker

      Uh, I think the point was to learn all the techniques applied in creating the helmet, which could be utilized in creating anything you might want to create.

    • http://sexidesign.com Melody

      There is an industry for designs on motorcycle helmets as well as the helmet itself. As Shane mentioned, tutorials are for learning/developing techniques..

  • http://www.ericvasquez.net Eric Vasquez

    Looks like a good tut to me

  • http://www.graphstock.com Graphstock

    Looks interesting.

  • http://www.vaporizerkits.com Da Buddha

    Reminds me of my racing days…

  • http://www.psd-dude.com PsdDude

    It looks really good the final result!

  • http://www.iconebula.com/ Supratim Nayak

    The shape is a bit weird but the effects are really nice. So kind of you to teach these many effects!

  • http://www.edataentryonline.com Sunny

    yes, this is really good one.

  • Unamused

    Psdtuts needs to stop linkbaiting it’s articles by using the term “Photo Realistic” to describe a non-photo-realistic Illustration. And no, I was not brought here by such a link. I have long lost interest in this site for similar reasons. I’m making the suggestion in a futile effort to save a site I once admired.

    • George

      I couldn’t agree more

  • http://poliman.pl Strony Internetowe Kraków

    good work. Now all we need is a motorcycle for set ;)