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The Artist's Guide to Photoshop - The Ultimate Tutorial Collection PDF

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100 TUTORIALS, TRICKS & SECRETS FOR PHOTOSHOP THE ARTIST’S GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP The ultimate tutorial collection TECHNIQUES FROM THE WORLD’S BEST ARTISTS WELCOME TO THE ARTIST’S GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP PHOTOSHOP’S SECRETS REVEALED elcome to the first in our brand-new series of Artist’s Guides – unlocking the W powerful tools of the creative suites you use and helping you to produce your best art ever. In this edition, you’ll discover techniques for Adobe’s fantastic Photoshop application that will allow you to develop your skills into new areas – and learn tricks that will enable you to get creative faster and with better results. Brought to you by the same superb creative team as Digital Arts magazine, our selection of the best digital artists from around the world reveals how they have created the incredible artworks you see throughout this edition. Follow step-by-step as they detail their favourite ways for producing art and illustrations with a wealth of different looks. Alongside these tutorials, you’ll also find inspiring guides to the latest hot styles in areas such as digital painting and photomanipulation – plus a wealth of tips as artists across a wide range of traditions disclose the secrets of how they come up with their best ideas. To help you’ve complete these tutorials, we’ve compiled their project files into a handy resource – plus given you over £750 of amazing stock images and Photoshop video training. There’s far more than could possibly fit on a CD, so we’ve created a Download Zone just for readers of this edition to gain access to these files. See page 162 for details. The Artist’s Guide to Photoshop is your handbook to becoming a better digital artist. Get ready to be inspired! To discover how Markie Darkie created this image see page 122. THE ARTIST’S GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP 3 CoNTeNTs iNside The ArTisT’s Guide To PhoToshoP P8 dYNAMiC BACKdroPs P24 shAdiNG TeChNiQues P44 PoP-sTYLe GrAPhiCs P12 ABsTrACT hAZe P28 TeXTured CoMPosiTioN P48 dreAMLiKe sCeNe P16 GrAPhiC CoMPiLATioN P52 FAshioN-iNsPired ArT P20 BooK iLLusTrATioN P56 PeNduLuM’s reCord sLeeVe P74 eLeGANT sTroKes iN diGiTAL PAiNT 4 The ArTisT’s Guide To PhoToshoP inside CHAPTER 1 LIGHTING EFFECTS 8 Create dynamic backdrop lighting 12 Create a euphoric abstract haze 16 Lighting effects 20 Create a children’s book illustration CHAPTER 2 TEXTURE EFFECTS 24 Learn gorgeous new shading skills 28 T exture effects for beautiful compositions P60 VINTAGE-LOOK COLLAGE 32 Organic smoke and spatter CHAPTER 3 LAYERS & BLENDING MODES 36 Masters of collage 44 Master Photoshop’s layer effects 48 Master the Liquify filter 52 Fashion-inspired illustrations 56 Immersion in an underwater world P64 MIX PHOTOS AND VECTORS P82 FIERY FORMS 60 Vintage-look collage techniques 64 Composite photos and vectors 68 Create a stunning pin-up collage CHAPTER 4 DIGITAL PAINTING 74 Elegant strokes 78 80s airbrush effects 82 M aster Adjustment Layers and blending 86 Paint and layer a distressed damsel P68 VINTAGE-STYLE PIN-UPS P86 DAMSEL IN DISTRESS 90 D raw inspiration from Chinese propaganda posters 94 Brushes with genius P78 ATHENA-STYLE FLASHBACK P90 CHINESE PROPAGANDA THE ARTIST’S GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP 5 CONTENTS CHAPTER 5 CLASSIC EFFECTS REIMAGINED 102 Vintage halftones 106 Stylish light effects in Photoshop 110 Create an abstract cube mosaic P102 STYLISH HALFTONES P126 VECTOR PORTRAITS 114 The cyborg revealed 118 The lens flare reborn CHAPTER 6 COMBINING PHOTOSHOP & ILLUSTRATOR 122 Back-to-basics photo illustration 126 Turn portraits into stylish vector art 132 Retro poster style P110 ABSTRACT CUBE MOSAIC P132 RETRO POSTER STYLE 136 Digital art remixed 140 Learn pro-level masking skills 144 Add vector flair to model shots CHAPTER 7 PHOTOSHOP SECRETS 148 Secrets of the world’s best designers 156 20 tips for better art in Photoshop 160 Read our magazines on your iPad P114 CYBORG INVASION P136 DIGITAL ART REMIXED 162 Download Zone EDITORIAL PUBLISHING Editor Neil Bennett Editor-in-chief Mark Hattersley chapter 1 Lighting effects Master Light and iLLuMinate your iMages MASTERCLASS HONE YOUR DESIGN SKILLS WITH EXPERT TECHNIqUES 8 THE ARTIST’S GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP LiGhTiNG eFFeCTs > learn LiGhTiNG eFFeCTs Create dynamic backdrop lighting Take your lighting effects to the next level, creating a deep, rich background for this fantastic rising sumo wrestler image small character can tell a A big story – but traditional character art can be rather flat and one-dimensional, tending towards a cartoonish feel. In this tutorial, Ricardo Ajcivinac shows how to recreate our brilliant cover image, and how to give your character art extra punch by using lighting and layer styles. The principle of this tutorial is to create a complex background with a focal point that hints at a story behind Go to bit.ly/412VkX and a character. Once you’ve mastered it, 04 download the lightning brushes it’s a highly versatile technique. created by *Adaae-stock. Load the Light effects are very trendy these brushes and paint lighting forks around days but you can avoid clichés by the area where you are going to set your mixing them with something different Download the cloud brushes character. Double-click on the layer in and interesting; the result will 02 created by JavierZhX on the Layers Palette to open the Layer Styles always be an amazing image that deviantArt at bit.ly/5U9drV then load dialog box. In the Drop Shadow menu, gets everybody’s attention. them. Create a new layer and use the set the blending mode’s opacity to 65%, brushes to start creating some clouds in the angle to 120º, and tick both the Use white and various tones of grey. Global Light and the Layer Knocks Out Drop Shadow boxes. In the Outer Glow menu, set the blending mode to Screen, the opacity to 75%, the colour to solid, and the range to 50%. The drop shadow should be #ff7814, and the outer glow should be #fffecc. Create a Photoshop document 01 measuring 934 x 1,280 pixels Create a new layer, and and fill the background layer with a 03 download the nebula brushes greenish grey (#bec7bb). Paint this with created by Matkraken from deviantArt Create a new layer and set the a large yellowish grey brush (#c9c3ad), at bit.ly/8Bjqlw. 05 blending mode to Soft Light, then create a new layer. Load the brushes as shown on the then use a round brush to add some Set the blending mode to Soft Light palette and use the different settings to black in the corners. In a new layer, use and paint with a black brush around make some stars in the sky. Next create an off-white brush to add some dots the top right corner, and white brush for sofog around the central area where around the lightning, then copy the layer the middle and bottom. we’ll be placing the character. styles you applied in step 4. > The ArTisT’s Guide To PhoToshoP 9 STEP STEP STEP STEP STEP Create a new layer and Create a new layer and, using 10 make some white lines at a 06 the polygonal lasso tool (L), 45º angle, using the Line tool (U) set make a selection like the one you see to two pixels wide. As in step 6, hold here – with one side straight at 45º. To Shift to make a straight line. Now the do this, hold Shift and move the cursor to background is completed. create a perfectly angled line. Now pick a round white brush and brush a little around the straight line. Create a new layer and, using 08 the Polygon tool (U) set to three-sided shapes, create a triangle. Set the layer fill to 0% and its blending mode to Overlay. In the Layer Styles palette set the values to those shown in the screengrab. Repeat this three times to get three triangles in separate layers. Repeat Step 6 until you have 07 a number of striking diagonal Now open the Rise of Sumo lines going across the image like the 11 character from the project example shown above. files, copy it and place it where the Open the Layer Style dialog and in abstract lines are so that it’s above all the Outer Glow menu, set the blending the previous layers. With the Magic Wand mode to Screen, the opacity to 77%, Open abstract lines.psd from tool (W) make a selection around the 09 the colour to solid, the technique to the project files, and copy-and- character and invert the selection (Cmd/ Softer, and the range to 30%. paste these into the area where the figure Ctrl + Shift + I), create a new layer The glow’s colour should be #ff0000. will be. Set the layer’s opacity to 17%. and fill the selection with black. 10 The ArTisT’s Guide To PhoToshoP STEP STEP STEP STEP STEP STEP LIGHTING EFFECTS Create a new layer and set 14 the blending mode to Color. Add some red and blue around the character’s head and the top lightning with a round brush. In a new layer, set the blending mode to Soft Light, and Set the layer fill to 0% and paint a little around the top right corner 12 open the Layer Style dialog. In with black. Create another layer and Now open the JPEG file you the Outer Glow menu, set the blending do the same, this time adding more 16 created and download the mode to Screen, the opacity to 75%, the black around all the corners and some free Actions set 50 Photoshop Postwork colour to solid, the technique to Softer, around the character. Actions by Manicho from bit.ly/6700w9. the size to 16 pixels, and the range to Experiment with these to get different 50%. The colour should be #c6faff. colour results: when you’ve found one Set the Inner Glow palette’s settings as you like, you’ve finished. shown immediately above, in #fefecc. info RICARDO AJCIVINAC > Designer and art director Ricardo Ajcivinac works at TBWA Guatemala. He combines Adobe Photoshop with traditional illustration and graffiti principles to create pieces that jump off the screen. Ricardo is also a graffiti writer and has a blog that he uses to showcase street art from all around the world. CONTACT •hemisferio-urbano.com/portfolio TIME TO COMPLETE Create a new layer and fill it •2-3 hours Create a new layer and use 15 with black. Add some noise SOFTWARE 13 the Matraken Nebula brushes (Filter > Noise > Add Noise) and set •Adobe Photoshop to add some stars and fog around the its opacity to 40%, then erase small areas PROJECT FILES character and the top. Add the layer around the character and the top and •Download the files from theartistsguide.co.uk/ styles shown in these screengrabs (drop bottom lightning. Now go to File and downloads shadow #ff570d, outer glow #fffecc). save your image as a JPEG document. THE ARTIST’S GUIDE TO PHOTOSHOP 11 S TEP STEP S TEP S TEP S TEP

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