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Use Illustrator and Photoshop to Create a 3D String of Pills – Screencast
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Use Illustrator and Photoshop to Create a 3D String of Pills – Screencast

on Aug 11th 2010 with 86 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Difficulty: Intermediate
  • Estimated Completion Time: 1 Hour
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Final Product What You'll Be Creating

Designers often use both Illustrator and Photoshop to create a scene or graphic. Today we will combine both of these powerful applications to create a 3-dimensional pill and then create a composite image using these elements. Let’s get started!

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The following resources were used during the production of this tutorial.

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My name is Tomasz (Tom) and I am a graphics and motion designer for new media and printing. I work as a full-time designer and I'm a student at University of Arts in Poland. Aside from designing, I just love good, independent music, Jim Jarmusch movies and riding my Vespa scooter. If you want to ask me something or simply say “hi”, visit my blog at tomaszbiskup.com.  

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  • Jenn Long Yu

    Hi. Nice tut but just 1 small problems. I just can’t move those smart object in to photoshop and scale them. i am able to move them in to PS but not able to scale them. So wondering what i did wrong?

    Thanks.

    • http://tomaszbiskup.com Tom
      Author

      Hi Jenn,
      I don’t know why you have the problem. Do you have Photoshop and Illustrator CS3 or higher?
      Regards,
      Tom

      • Jenn Long Yu

        Hi tom. Thanks men but i think i found why.

        I am able to scale it after the smart object was placed and set. But question now is i am not able to multi copy and paste more then 1 smart object. I can only copy paste and then i have to set dead before i can copy a other 1. Is that normal? Cus in the video i can see that he is able to copy and paste a lot of smart object same time with out setting down anything.

  • Eric

    Wow what a great tutorial!! I loved it.
    Question: is there a way to make a scatter brush out of the pill instead of placing each down separately or no?
    thanks

    • http://tomaszbiskup.com Tom
      Author

      When creating a scatter brush you can’t choose 6 different graphics for photoshop to choose from. So you could create a scatter brush made of only 2 pills (dual brush setting added). Plus you wouldn’t have that much control over the placement, which is in my opinion crucial for the final effect.
      Regards,
      Tom

  • http://www.franklinlam.com Franklin Lam

    All I have to say is: Tomasz Biskup, you’re truly my inspiration. I decided to give up 3-4 hours of of time to do this tutorial. And, boy what an awesome tutorial! Please do more! Here is my take on it: http://franklinlam.com/pills.png

  • http://emileq.com Emileq

    amazing tut!
    thank you:)

  • LaSse

    Wow, nice tutorial, really learns one to use illustrators 3D.
    I love how some of the pills are blurred and meets in a flare by the logo.

    Keep up the good work!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/klafkid/ Klafkid

    Hey, you are great.
    Perfect english, perfect tutorial, nice explanations.

    My version is pretty much like yours, because yours is sooo great ;)

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/klafkid/4924099507/

  • Avkash

    Nice Tuts!!!

  • http://www.code.my devlim

    love this tutorial, especially the illustration technique that present in this tutorial.

  • http://www.laphie.com Sofia

    Really Good!! Thanks to share!

  • Jonessie

    Please excuse the OMG… :)

    A very well put together simple tutorial, I’m going to have a tinker at this myself, something to keep my busy on a Bank Holiday Monday…

    :)

  • http://kingsizeclan.net/sbphotography/startseite.html Sandro

    Hello Tomasz

    First of all I want to say this is a really interesting tutorial. I like the combination of Illustrator and Photoshop to achieve a 3-dimensional look like this. You really explained some nice and usefull techniques that I never used myself before.

    I was so impressed by your artwork that I decided to realize it as an animation in After Effects and with CInema4D

    This is the result of my work: http://vimeo.com/14559395
    It deviates a bit from your result since the pills don’t flow the same way.

    Keep on going with cool artworks.
    Best regards
    Sandro

  • Alex

    Hi Tomasz

    thanks for the super tut, I’ve became great stuff with it!

    Best regards, Alex

  • http://www.alkabeergrafix.com Asim

    Wow,,,, THANKS a lot,,,!

  • http://www.lernvid.com Jürgen

    Thank you Tom!

    This tutorial is one of the best i have ever seen. Keep that amazing job on, an show us more of that cool stuff.

    Best Greets!

  • http://www.securityking.com Craig

    Brilliant tutorial of a string of 3D pills, and the additional video is fantastic! Brilliant work!

  • stOrM!

    One of the best tuts I’ve ever seen thanks for sharing it!

  • http://www.adipurdila.com Adi

    Awesome tutorial, learned a couple of things as well. Keep up the good work :)

  • Infected

    Dude, that thing looks awesome!

    I learned some things…. or better, i learned how to use some functions nicely and thanks for that.

    But… Im sure it wasnt much fun to create =)
    Almost every step of it looks like it was a bunch of annoying work =).

    Keep it up, bye!

  • http://www.eduardkisner.de Infected

    Hey, here is my version – very close to yours, with some minor changes.

    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4048/5149202134_ef14c16c6c_b.jpg

  • Ajit

    Great work!
    It is very useful tutorial. Good use of shortcuts in illustrator and Photoshop

  • HEAVYDAMAGE

    -What would happen if you just make a smart object of all those pills, press CTRL+P to select the pills only and then paint with brush tool the shadows? And i would make a mask on that shadow layer and correct some mistakes afterwards…
    -the scattering is good idea too. the point is in making 6 different brush presets and scattering them one by one…i suppose it would save an hour or two :D
    -overall PERFECT TUT man!

  • supprof1

    hello there
    Tomasz Biskup your english is enough suitable at least it’s better than mine
    your tutorial is awesome
    i home we will see you again in action.
    you’re an artist
    thank you very mutch

  • http://www.huesmuse.com Ben

    Seriously Awesome Tutorial! Thanks a lot…
    (B)

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