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40 Outstanding Photo Manipulation Tutorials

vitaly — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:02:27 +0000

Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the way you want! Now it’s all about your imagination and using Photoshop’s effects and other tools cleverly.

You simply have to experiment with different effects to see what feeling they give you as having expertise in Photoshop can help you greatly in producing amazing results. Here we’ve compiled a list of 40 great photo manipulation tutorials that would astonish you!

Photo Manipulation Tutorials

How to Create Glass Transparency in a Cute Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to incorporate glass into your work. We’ll learn a good technique for incorporating glass transparency into photo manipulations, while placing a cute, pirate hamster on the high seas. Let’s start!

Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist is going to show you how to create a surreal time-themed photomanipulation using Photoshop. The name of this photomanipulation is “Time Guardian” and it was originally created by Mariusz Karasiewicz

How to Make a Melting Camera Scene
In this tutorial, we’ll use the Layer Mask Tool and Liquify filter to “melt” the camera. Artist recommends you work with a tablet for this one (it makes your work easier), but if you don’t have one it is also possible to go through this tutorial. Let’s start!

Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial Artist will show you how to use different blending modes to blend flying hairs easily and to make semi-transparent planet. He will also show you different techniques of adjustment to get the most realistic results in your photo manipulations!

Making of the Imaginary Paint Dancers
Artist came across the amazing set of Paint Tossing freebies from Media Militia the other day and thought that he must create some artwork with them. So he visited my favorite Mjranum’s stock gallery again and done up this tutorial. Hope you will like it.

Robot Woman Photo Manipulation
If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!

Alien Invasion
A step by step and detailed tutorial, you will find it very useful and interesting.

How to Create a Steampunk Style Illustration in Photoshop
Go simultaneously backward and forward in time with this Steampunk tutorial. The main focus, aside from the style of course, is fusing elements from different sources together to create a cohesive whole. There are many tricks to this end and we shall be looking at light sources, shadows, and image grading.

Create a Cyborg With Photoshop
In this tutorial you’ll discover how to incorporate mundane, everyday objects into a photoshop cyborg manipulation. Combining household objects with 3D renders is a technique that can and does have interesting results.

How to Create a Mythical Creature Photo Manipulation
If you want to take your photo manipulation skills to the next level, then we have an awesome tutorial for you. Learn more at the jump!

How to Create a Chilling Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how he created a fantasy photo manipulation called “You Can Not Frost The Time” with using several Photoshop tools such as Color Range, different blending modes, and more. Let’s get started!

How to Create a Fantasy Landscape Photo Manipulation
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a fantasy landscape using some simple and easy techniques. Everyone with basic Photoshop skills can succeed to recreate this simple image using the most important thing in this kind of photo manipulation – the right stock. So let’s go!

How to Create a Fallen Angel on Fire Photo Manipulation
If you want to take your photo manipulation work to the next level, then we have an exciting tutorial for you. We’ll work with fire and other images to create this fantasy scene. Learn more at the jump!

How to Create a Dark Emotional Photo Manipulation
This is a tutorial with a simple idea: to create an emotional photo manipulation. Following this tutorial, you will learn how to blend different images to make a dark atmospheric background, modify the dress of the model, apply makeup, paint hair, blend different objects in the background, and more – all to create a moody illustration. So, let’s start!

How to Create a Surreal Photo Manipulation with Twisting Water
In this tutorial, we’re going to create a fantasy photo manipulation mixing different images and learning to use and modify the stock images in a creative way. The idea is to get a compact image that looks absolutely real, and at the same time, absolutely impossible!

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel
Learn how to combine several photos to create a dramatic ‘fallen angel’ scene.

Animal King Photo Manipulation
In this photoshop tutorial, you’ll learn how to mash up a series of photos in a highly creative poster based on a famous painting from the 1800’s. Let’s get started!

Design an Epic Fantasy Scene with Photoshop
In this tutorial we are going to create a photo manipulation inspired by Valhalla.

Create an Explosive Cover with Precise Photo Manipulation Techniques
In this tutorial, we’re going to make a creative illustration in a style meant for a video game cover or sci-fi book cover. We’ll create this with mostly photo manipulation techniques. With some cool Photoshop options you can turn all the photos you chose, into one stunning looking explosive cover.

Design a Dramatic and Surreal Rainy Scene with Photoshop
Learn all about how to manipulate images and combine them to create surreal scenes, in this case a rainy scene. Also, numerous details are covered in this tutorial such as adding highlights, shading, excellent photo-manipulation techniques, and more. Learn all about it at the jump!

The Making of Mystic
In this tutorial Nik Ainley walks us through the process of making a spectacular image. This tutorial focuses on the big picture steps taken to create this image. You’ll learn some incredible techniques in this tutorial, and get a view into how Nik creates beautiful photo-manipulation based images. Let’s check it out.

Fantastic Disintegration Effect inspired by Watchmen in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create the disintegration effect using brushes and the blur filter. It’s really simple and you will be able to create nice designs using this sort of trendy style of effect.

Making of the Magical Heroes
In this tutorial We will be creating a game poster with magical theme. This tutorial shows how to draw a sword from scratch and also introducing some of the latest high quality brushes on the internet.

Create amazing water-drenched photomontages
Nik Ainley shows you how to make a splash, blending two very different images to create this amazing underwater effect, complete with a dissolving figure of a man.

Torture a Man and Stitch himup
Transform a man into a torture victim with a couple tricks and some basic tools.

Creating a Glowing Sphere in An Inverted Image
Learn how you can create an interesting image by adding in some simple Photoshop effects and by inverting its colors! Inverting an image can sometimes produce unexpected results, and in this tutorial, you’ll learn and practice Filters – Liquify, Blur and Lens Flare tools to create additional effects and elements to make it more stunning.

How to Create a Mystery Photo Manipulation in Photoshop
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a mystery photo manipulation using Photoshop brushes, different blend modes, and more. Let’s get started!

How To Create A Ripping And Tearing Poster Effect
In this tutorial we are going to turn a flat, artificial poster into something that looks as if it’s been hanging around on the wall for a long time.The initial poster was created using techniques that we have covered in previews tutorials. As you can see, it’s a brash image that looks nothing like a real poster.

Mysterious Hollow Dark landscape
A step by step and detailed tutorial, you will find it very useful and interesting.

How to Create a Photo Manipulation of a Flooded City Scene
In this tutorial, we will learn how to manipulate a simple photo into a flooding torrent of a scene. We’ll use some relatively simple techniques to give this image a semi-realistic, stylized feel. Let’s get started!

Scared Photomanipulation Tutorial
This tutorial will be a little different than all the other tutorials. Here artist will teach you some basic things about Photomanipulation.

How to Create a Slice of Nature Photo Manipulation
Today artist is going to show you how to put together a complex tree illustration. The idea for this tutorial is to show a workflow from concept to finish, not just so you can copy this illustration, but so that you can take the ideas behind it and use them for any design you have. It’s not just the finished design but the process we are after.

Self-initiated abstract art
In this tutorial artist will show you how – with a little time on your side – you can overcome the common myth of low budget work, creating an impressive piece of abstract work using Photoshop.

Dreamy photo effect
In this tutorial we will take a photo and use different color adjustments and something like pattern floral brushes to make it better or to make a different mood to our picture. So let’s go.

Dazzling Dance Photo Manipulation
In this detailed and lengthy Photoshop tutorial, you will learn how to combine photos and add special effects to turn a normal photograph into a stunning artwork. You will also learn several tricks to reduce your Photoshop document file size and number of layers and layer styles.

How to Create a Fantasy Scene with Death
In this detailed tutorial you will learn how to create a fantasy scene with death.

How To Create a Futuristic Sci-Fi Scene
In this tutorial, artist will guide you through the steps to create a futuristic sci-fi scene. We will transform original pictures using Photoshop tools that will help to give the image a more spectacular look.

Create a Colorful Woodpecker and Tree Scenery
This tutorial is intended for everyone who is beginning at digital drawing/painting, if you like drawing and Photoshop then you are the perfect candidate to follow this tutorial.

Create a Beautiful Lonely Fantasy Fairy
This tutorial will explain how to make a beautiful fairy from a single source image. We’ll go over each step on how to make the feathers, the hat, the background, the grass and the mountains.

How to Create a Severed Arm in Photoshop
In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks. Let’s get started!

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The Ultimate Collection Of Brilliant Web Design Tutorials

vitaly — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:45:18 +0000

By Callum Chapman

In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web.

If you’re already an experienced Web designer, don’t ignore this post. Even the most talented and professional designers can pick up tips and tricks from others. After all, design is a field in which no one knows it all.

Web Design Tutorials

Design an Italian Restaurant Web Layout
Use Photoshop’s built-in custom shapes to add depth and interest to your design.

Design an Impressive Web Hosting Layout
Use the perspective tool to change the shapes and angles of otherwise simple objects.

Design a Cartoon Grunge Website Layout
Create a torn-paper effect with the lasso tool.

Create a Sleek, High-End Web Design from Scratch
Create a warm glowing background texture using gradients, textures and brushes.

Design a Clean Business Layout
Use custom shapes to produce your very own icons.

Design a One-Page Portfolio Web Layout
Use some neat typography, combined with some grungy textures, to produce beautiful effects.

Create Your Own Portfolio Web Page
Use the brush tool with custom brush packs to produce pretty swirl patterns.

Design a Portfolio Web Layout
Use a load of great grungy textures in your design to add subtle but powerful effects.

Create a Photo-Realistic Web Layout
Use a gorgeous wood-textured image to produce a photo-realistic design.

Design a Creative Studio Web Page
Create custom patterns to use as borders and separators.

Design a Textured Portfolio Layout
Use textures to create an interesting background and strokes to make certain areas pop!

Create a Photo Portfolio Web Page Design
Use different blending modes to create awesome, colorful effects.

Design and Create a Lifestream of your Online Activities
Use simple techniques and textures to design a quick but gorgeous design mockup.

Design an E-Commerce Website Design
Use one-pixel lines to separate different links in the navigation menu.

Make a Creative Photography Portfolio Web Design
Use blending modes to create stylish buttons with sleek highlights.

Create a Marketplace Theme Layout
Use gradients, drop-shadows and noise to create an awesome background and foreground objects.

Design a Hosting Web Layout
Use layer masks to add sleek reflections to your icons.

Design a Non-Profit Web Layout
Use borders and strokes to create a great abstract photograph pile.

Design a Blog/WordPress Theme Mockup
Use one-pixel borders to add a subtle detail to certain areas of your design.

Design a Personal Portfolio Layout
Use low- opacity block colors to make heading titles easier to spot and read.

Create a Computer Store Web Layout
Use drop-shadows, inner shadows, gradients and strokes to create 3-D buttons.

Design a Professional Business Web Layout
Use drop-shadows and gradients to create a stylish 3-D look.

Design an Online Photo Portfolio Layout
Use patterns to add depth and interest to certain areas of your design.

Create a Hand-Drawn-Inspired Web Design
Use a (Wacom) graphics tablet to produce a hand-drawn effect for things like the RSS icon.

Design a Modern and Sleek Mockup
Use the marquee and free transform tools to create custom shapes and buttons.

Design an Old Paper Portfolio Layout
Create a great navigation menu using torn paper and hue/saturation settings.

Design a Blue Blog WordPress Theme Layout
Create a simple and stylish blog theme, adding interest through gradients, strokes and textures.

Create a Nature-Inspired Layout
Use custom brushes and stock photos to produce a photo-realistic design.

Create a Clean and Colorful Web Layout
Use the artistic film-grain filter to produce awesome background effects.

Design a Colorful WordPress Theme
Use the rectangle and move tools to create a colorful background pattern.

Create a Clean and Modern Website Design
Use guides to properly set up your document for different-sized monitors.

Create a Pure CSS Polaroid Photo Gallery Design
Use a seamless wooden texture to produce a beautiful background.

Create Amazing Layout Textures
Use a seamless pattern and some lighting-effect filters to produce an interesting background image.

Create a Grunge Web Design
Turn custom shapes into patterns to add interest to your design.

Create an Interior Design Web Layout
Use low opacities and strokes to add depth to your design.

Create a Colorful Business Web Design
Use drop-shadows and inner shadows to produce a great letterpress-type effect.

Design a Photographer’s Portfolio Layout
Use professional photo-montage techniques to produce a great header illustration.

Create a Green Corporate Web Design
Use the brush tool to create a great eye-catching background effect.

Create a Clean Portfolio Web Design
Make use of some great high-resolution textures to add depth and detail to your otherwise clean designs.

Create a Dark Gaming Layout
Combine photos, patterns, textures and lighting effects to create elements that are perfect for a gaming website!

Create a WordPress Interface
Use the pen tool to edit anchor points and create custom shapes.

Design a Unique and Grungy Web Layout
Use scans and photographs of paper and other hand-drawn elements to produce an awesome abstract theme.

Create a Stylish Web Studio Design
Use the pen tool to create a design with a ton of funky shapes!

Design and Build Your Own Single-Page Portfolio Website
Use grids and guides to keep your design neat and tidy.

Create a Vibrant and Modern Blog Design
Use high-resolution textures to add depth and detail to your website’s background image.

Create a Grunge WordPress Theme Layout
Use the burn tool to add dark areas to your abstract design.

Design a Corporate WordPress Theme Layout
Use a pattern to add interesting elements to your Web design.

Create an Amazing Consulting Layout
Use typography to create custom shapes and objects.

Design a Creative Cosmetics Layout
Use the pen tool to make a visually appealing header shape.

Design a Breathtaking Portfolio Layout
Combine textures and built-in filters to create a gorgeous background.

Design a Creative Design Studio Layout
Use the warp tool to transform a simple shape into a realistic sheet of curving paper.

Create a Grungy Personal Portfolio Design
Use different blending modes to make clean networking buttons fit in with a grungy design.

Design an Amazing 3-D Hosting Layout
Use a seamless textured pattern to create a visually appealing background image.

Design a Simple and Sleek Web Portfolio
Use drop-shadows and inner shadows to make header text stand out from other parts of the page.

Design a Car Dealer Website Layout
Use the noise filter to quickly and effectively add depth to your Web design.

Create an Apple-Inspired Website Layout
Use Web icons to add depth, interest and professionalism to your design.

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70 Ultimate Cinema 4D Tutorials & Techniques

vitaly — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:08:26 +0000

Today we share a very comprehensive round-up of Cinema 4D Tutorials. Cinema 4D is a modeling, animation and rendering application that is noted for its flexible interface and ease of use. It is capable of procedural and polygonal/subd modeling, animating, lighting, texturing and rendering. Movies like Monster House, Spiderman 3, Chronicles of Narnia, Beowulf and Polar Express are all examples of Cinema 4D Graphics being in use.

Cinema 4D comes with an intuitive interface and a sound workflow that let the imagination and creativity of an artist flow freely. It also allows for a simple integration with compositing application pipelines making it a multi-purpose application that can be used in films and in motion graphics.

Cinema 4D Tutorials

Create an Abstract Armored Sphere Scene in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a complex abstract Armored Sphere scene in Cinema 4D. You will use structure tools (such as Extrude and Extrude Inner), HyperNURBS, and the Danel shader to create the scene, and then render it with Advanced Render.

Making Of: Primateran
In this tutorial artist creates a scene that showed a part of the world of the “Primaterans” – a civilization that prefers dark corners of the galaxy, hiding from their enemies until their armada is strong enough to destroy them.

Create a Jelly-like Text Animation in Cinema 4D and After Effects
Learn the tools necessary to create interesting and captivating motion graphics in this exciting look into modeling, rigging, animation, materials, lighting, rendering and compositing using Cinema 4D and After Effects.

Linear Workflow for Gamma Correct Lighting in Cinema 4D
One of the most critical elements involved in creating realistically lit interior environments is exposure control. In this tutorial you will be introduced to using the linear workflow for gamma correct lighting in Cinema 4D, allowing you produce more photorealistic renders, as well as improve specular highlights and anti-aliasing.

Create a Realistic Subway Station Scene using Cinema 4D and After Effects
This tutorial takes us underground to examine how to build a 3D model of a subway train and make it zip past a real subway platform.

Create a Detailed Zune HD MP3 Player in Cinema 4D – Day 2
Creating convincing product visualizations can sometimes be a daunting task, due to the high level of detail and fidelity the artist must achieve in order to make it believable. In this multi-part, intermediate to advanced level tutorial, you will learn the many techniques needed to model a Microsoft Zune HD.

Model a Venus-styled Robot in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to model and texture a small robot from scratch and place it in a lit scene. This is a comprehensive tutorial with 127 steps and will provide a complete introduction to making 3D art for the intermediate to advanced Cinema 4D user.

3D Text in Cinema 4D
This is Live Tutorial, artist recorded this live on ustream where he ask what tutorial people want to see and he try to do it on the fly.

On/Off Switch
Enable or disable multiple objects at with one click Increase viewport speed and animation playback.

Shattering an Object in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial, Artist show you how to set up the textures and the lights in this scene to prepare it for render. We use the GI Sky Sampler and an HDRI image to light the scene without any actual lights.

Apple Pro Speaker Cinema4D Tutorial
Learn how to design an Apple Pro Speaker with some simple steps in C4D.

Making of: The Worm
This scene was created using Cinema 4D and was done as follows.

Making of Compsognathus
In this tutorial artist will show you briefly how he created this little dinosaurs. he created this one using Cinema 4D, Corel Photo-Paint and xNormal for the Normal Map generation. The Cinema 4D layout can be seen in Fig.01.

Making of Super Snail
This work is fully modeled and rendered in Cinema 4D. Artist have used BodyPaint and Photoshop for the textures.

How to Create Explosive Typographic Effects in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial artist will walk through the steps he used to create this illustration to bring alive the word “collide.”

3D Abstract Tentacle Tutorial
Tutorial on how to make tentacles like this in the image using cinema 4D ;)

DOOR TYPE
How to create a 3D type effect using Cinema 4d and Photoshop.

Creating a Line Object Render
In this tutorial you will learn how to create great looking Line Renders using extruding and deformers, line renders are amazing looking renders that are often used on wallpapers or photo manipulations.

How to Make A Glossy Candy Stripe Texture in Cinema 4D
In this quick tutorial, Artist show you how to make a glossy candy stripe texture. Artist have used this texture a ton lately when playing with the new physics engine. The stripes help show when spheres start to rotate, so you may want to head back and do that one first. Enjoy!

Modeling a Car using Blueprints
In this massive tutorial you will learn how to model a car using blueprints, points and the bridge tool. Basic Cinema 4D knowledge is required for this tutorial!

Modeling a Zebra
Here’s the Zebra 3D modeling tutorial by Pupi for Cinema 4D. And the Great thing is, you can download his 3D model for FREE!

Bulb Modelling Tutorial
A very detailed and step by step tutorial on how to create electric bulb.

Armor plates C4D tutorial
A great step by step tutorial on Armor plates.

Cinema 4D + Poser tutorial
Beautiful tutorial and its mixture of Cinema 4D and Poser.

Font Explode
In this tutorial you will learn how to create an explosive type effect!

Dotted-Lines
In this tutorial you will learn How to create an animated dotted line stroke.

The “UV-Map Dirtmap Baker” Tutorial
Cinema 4D veteran Peter Hofmann aka peXel presents us with this handy tutorial covering the following topics: How to get a “clean” UV – Map, How to calculate a Dirt – Map, How to work with Baker.

Little Planet
In this tutorial we’re going to use Cinema 4d to create the 3d text like in the image above. Feel free to use the software of your choice, this is a technique that can be easily duplicated in other 3D apps.

WORKING WITH PROCEDURALS
In this tutorial we will learn how much powerful procedurals are, and also some basics regarding shading/lighting.

Making an Hourglass
This tutorial will teach you to make a great sandglass, which you can use for plenty of purposes. You can find the finished model and other stuff from there.

Peanut Can BASIC Tutorial
Just a quick, easy dirty way to create a peanut can (or most types of cans with lids for that matter) in cinema 4D. Again its more about how easy the actual model and geometry is compared to the actual texturing.

Daylight tutorial
This amazing 3d scene, entitled Daylight, was created by Carles Piles. Read how the scene was created in the tutorial below.

Creating Car Tires
This tutorial will teach you how to make beautiful car tires step by step.

Texturing Objects and Lights in Cinema 4D
In this tutorial, artist will go though the steps in texturing objects in Cinema 4D. He also play with using textures to actually light the scene.

Shattering Glass
In this 3 tutorial series we’ll look at how to build a glass shatter effect, based on a recent project for Damages 2, using Illustrator, After Effects and Cinema 4D. This section includes capturing the template in After Effects, paths in Illustrator and setting up imported splines as polygons in Cinema 4D.

Modeling a Piano
This tutorial will show you how to make awesome model of piano.

Create 3D objects in Cinema 4D from vector art
This is a video tutorial on taking vector art and importing it into Cinema 4D to create a 3D object that can be animated, textured, and manipulated in 3D space. In this tutorial, written by David from filmmakingcentral.com he shows you exactly how to do this.

How i do my Materials
In this tutorial you will learn how to create awesome matterial, that can be very useful for your upcoming tasks.

Create a UFO in C4D
In this tutorial artist will show you how to create a basic textured disc shape and then drop it into an Array Object where you can create an epic looking UFO.

Skyline R34 Starter Tutorial
Although in this tutorial does not cover entire car, only the bonnet, fender and door, hope that you will learn lots of techniques in this tutorial.

3D E-Book-Cover
In this tutorial you will learn how to make E Book Cover step by step.

Simple UFO Tutorial
Nothing fancy, but it could help someone, somewhere, somehow, this tutorial iGrass Tutorial Cinema 4Ds written for Cinema 4D, but could easily be adapted for any other 3D app out there.

Classy Glassy Balls
Tutorial made for Cinema 4d but can be applied to almost any 3d rendering program.

Area Light and Ambient Light
In this Cinema 4D tutorial, he get into lighting a scene with the Ambient Light and Area Light CS Tools.

Creating a Ball Bearing using Arrays
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a ball bearing using an Array Object. You will also learn about the use of the Taper object, Fillet option and Bevel function.

Egg Modeling Tutorial
Tutorial made for Cinema 4d but can be applied to almost any 3d rendering program.

Trash Can Tutorial
This tutorial shows how to make a simple modern trash can or “abstract” form you can use in your scenery, it also serves as practice for extrude tools and getting familiar with them.

Cinema 4d Low Poly Gun Tutorial
Wanna make something like this in Cinema 4D R8 and Unwrap 3D? so this tutorial is best for this.

Making 3D Bullet Case
This week, artist will show you how to make your own geometry easily. Although almost every 3D application can perform the same task, he will use Maxon’s Cinema 4D.

Interior Part 2
A detaild and very comprehensive tutorial about Interior.

Grass Tutorial Cinema 4D
This tutorial will show you how to make beautiful grass.

City tutorial
A very useful Tutorial that how you can make a city buildings.

Bart Simpson
A detailed and step by step tutorial that will teach you lots of techniques.

A Recipe for Skin
In this tutorial Artist will examine a few different strategies for achieving a realistic skin shader in Cinema 4D. Skin has a particular quality that sets it apart from ordinary surfaces: it is luminously translucent.

Create Mac OSX Intro Video with C4D
In this tutorial Satya Meka will walk us through Cinema 4D and how to create the 3d text in this effect.

Cinema 4D Diamonds Tutorial
Not for complete beginners as artist made it pretty quick, but those of you that know the basics should understand.

Arq02 – Lamps
Mindblwoing tutorial and you will learn in this how to make a beautiful Lamp.

Renault Clio in Cinema 4D
In the following tutorial we would like to show how you can map decals and sponsor stickers in Cinema 4D R8.5

Ipod Video-Tutorial
Great tutorial on Ipod Making.

Dvd Player Tutorial Part 1
Part 1 of 3 video tutorials for Cinema 4D showing how to model a Dvd Player.

Green Abstract Tutorial
Create this abstract with the easiest way!

Making a glass and a wine bottle with C4D
This tutorial demonstrates ways to make a glass, its materials and the content inside the glass. Artist made the model in c4d r9, but It can be done with lower versions.

Create an Amazing Liquid Apple Effect in RealFlow, Cinema 4D, and After Effects
Learn the animation basics and looping in Cinema 4D.

Model, Texture, and Render an Interior Scene With Cinema 4D and VRay
In this beginner/ intermediate level tutorial, you will learn how to create and render a realistic interior scene in Cinema 4D and Vray. In this tutorial you will focus on modeling the room and all of the furniture, and the second on materials, lights, rendering, and post production.

How to Export 3d Camera Data from Cinema 4D into After Effects
When it comes to motion graphics, exporting camera data from a 3D program to a 2D compositing program is one of the most important techniques you could know. In this tutorial, you will learn the basics behind getting Cinema 4D and After Effects to talk to one another, including using exporting tags, using the camera data in After Effects within 3D layers and effects, and how to set up and tweak your render for the best results.

Making of Portrait of a Silent Man
In this tutorial Patrick Eischen is going to show you how he created his image “Portrait of a silent man” using Cinema 4D and ZBrush.

Rolling Red Carpet
How to a rolling carpet and text effect in Cinema 4d.

Paper Crumple Tutorial in Cinema 4D
This tutorial shows you how to create an animation that makes a piece a paper crumple into a ball with no keyframes at all. It uses the cloth tag.

3D Toys Animation
Learn the animation basics and looping in Cinema 4D.

3D Toys Animation
Cinema4D – Full Guide

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30 Realistic Cinema 4D Tutorials

60 Excellent Gadget Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials

vitaly — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:39:03 +0000

Designing your own (or redesigning existing) gadgets such as MP3 Players, Game Consoles and Computers is an incredible way to improve your general skills in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator (or any other design-related software package for that matter). You’re bound to pick up new skills every time, even if you’re considered an expert.

The following round-up of tutorials consists of 60 great gadget tutorials. There is a selection of Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials so you can learn new tricks in two of the most used pieces of graphic software the world has ever seen.

There are hours and hours worth of tutorials to read through, from creating your own custom MP3 player to redesigning the legendary Apple iPods, and designing retro game cartridges to photo-realistic high-definition LCD televisions — this post has it all!

Audio Device Tutorials

The following audio related tutorials consist of MP3 players and iPods, CD players, speakers, headphones and wires. A large selection of the tutorials use gradient overlays to create realistic lighting and shadowed areas – this is definitely a compilation of tutorials you should spend some free time reading if you want to improve your skills using the various gradient tools that Photoshop and Illustrator have to offer.

How to Create a Zen Mosiac MP3 Player (Photoshop)

Designing a Black Zune 2 (Photoshop)

Make an iPod Classic (Photoshop)

Create a 3D MP3 Player (Photoshop)

Creating a Custom MP3 Player (Photoshop)

Create a Detailed Audio Player (Photoshop)

Create a Realistic Video iPod Nano (Photoshop)

Design an MP3 Player (Photoshop)

Create an iPod Shuffle (Photoshop)

Create a Zune in Photoshop (Photoshop)

Design a Vintage Radio Icon in Photoshop (Photoshop)

Create an Audio Receiver Illustration (Photoshop)

Create an MP3 Player Interface (Photoshop)

Create an MP3 Player Illustration (Photoshop)

Create a Skin for MP3 Player Zune (Photoshop)

Creating a CD Player (Photoshop)

How to Create a Stylish Pair of Headphones (Photoshop)

How to Make a Bangin’ Woofer Embedded in Wood (Photoshop)

Design a Vector Audio Speaker (Illustrator)

How to Create Stereo Headphone Plugs (Illustrator)

Create an Old TDK Cassette Tape (Illustrator)

Mobile Phone Tutorials

If learning how to create incredibly detailed buttons is something you want to do, the following tutorials are for you. In almost every tutorial listed below you’ll learn how to use fine strokes to add depth and detail to your gadgets, as well as using plenty of blending modes to add a realistic look to your two-dimensional models.

How to Create a Realistic iPhone (Photoshop)

Create a Nokia 5300 Cell Phone (Photoshop)

Designing a Loox Pocket PC (Photoshop)

Draw a Realistic Cell Phone (Photoshop)

Create a Mobile Phone Styled like the HTC Touch Diamond (Photoshop)

Design an Apple iPhone Mobile (Photoshop)

Create a Sony Ericsson W800 (Photoshop)

Create a Strawberry Mobile Phone (Photoshop)

Create a Realistic Blackberry Style Mobile Phone (Photoshop)

Design a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic (Photoshop)

Draw a Realistic Transparent and Neon Phone (Photoshop)

Create an iPhone from Scratch (Photoshop)

Design a Sleek Nature Themed Phone Advert (Photoshop)

Create a Sidekick LX Styled Vector Illustration (Illustrator)

Create an iPhone Style Vector Phone Illustration (Illustrator)

Gaming Device Tutorials

Due to the many various shapes and sizes in the following collection of tutorials, the only thing that really connects them is the fact that they are all some kind of gaming device, whether they be a gaming console system, a gamepad/controller or even a retro game cartridge. There are hundreds of tips you can pick up in these tutorials, and they are especially good if you are looking to improve your three-dimensional and composition skills.

How to Create a Realistic Game Boy (Photoshop)

Create a Sony Playstation 3 (Photoshop)

Create a Playstation Portable (Photoshop)

How to Draw a Microsoft Xbox 360 (Photoshop)

Design a Nintendo DS Lite (Photoshop)

Designing a Wii Mote Controller (Photoshop)

Create a Super Retro Game Cartridge Design (Photoshop)

How to Create a Super Retro Style Game Controller (Photoshop)

Design a Stylish Retro Game Boy Poster (Photoshop)

Camera Tutorials

Although this category is fairly small compared to the others there is still a lot to learn. Design a Canon digital camera and learn how to create a life-like chrome effect in Photoshop, or brush up on your three-dimensional and gradient skills in Illustrator.

Designing a Canon Digital Camera (Photoshop)

Create An Aperture Style Camera Lens (Illustrator)

Create a Detailed Camera with Photo Icon (Illustrator)

Computers, Monitors and TV Tutorials

If using transformation tools is something you want to be able to place in your skill list, these are some tutorials you should most definitely follow through. You’ll be using several tools to rotate, stretch, warp and distort simple shapes to produce the right composition and shapes to produce models of computers, monitors and televisions – from modern high definition LCD televisions to retro televisions and various editions of Apple Macs.

Create a Slick Black iMac (Photoshop)

LG LCD Monitor Icon (Photoshop)

Creating a MacBook from Scratch (Photoshop)

Make a Realistic LCD HDTV from Scratch (Photoshop)

How to Create a Photorealistic iMac and Magic Mouse (Illustrator)

How to Create a Colorful Retro Style TV (Illustrator)

How to Design the Apple iPad (Photoshop)

Computer Hardware Tutorials

Like in previous sections such as the mobile phone tutorials and computer, monitors and TV tutorials, you’ll be using a handful of techniques in the following category such as transformation tools and gradient tools. Follow these step by step guides to improve your all-round general skills such as making two-dimensional designs appear three-dimensional using only Photoshop or Illustrator, and adding incredible realistic detail using fine strokes and shadows.

Design a Shiny Photorealistic Apple Remote (Photoshop)

Create a USB Stick (Photoshop)

Create a PC USB Mouse (Photoshop)

Learn to Draw a Realistic Bamboo Fun Graphics Tablet (Photoshop)

How to Create a Vector Wacom Tablet (Illustrator)

Design a Colorful USB Flash Stick with Tattoo Style Decals (Illustrator)

How to Draw a USB Flash Drive (Illustrator)

50 Excellent Adobe After Effects Tutorials

vitaly — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:17:42 +0000

By Nousheen Aquil

This post presents a round-up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials for your visual effects and motion graphics-related work. After Effects is getting popular as the industry of Computer Graphics and Digital Motion is growing. With After Effects, you have choice to generate dynamic and expressive motion graphics with truly stunning visual effects — very easily and quickly. So here is the list of Adobe After Effects Tutorials. We hope that it will be helpful for you!

After Effects Tutorials

Glass Orbs
In this tutorial you will learn how to use After Effects to create shiny glass orbs in 3D and Create a spherical and reflection map from images.

Jumbotron Column
In this extended tutorial learn how to identify the field order of footage and interpret it collectly; create a realistic Jumbotron-style look using CC Ball Action, Glow, Levels and Curves; turn the jumbotron into a 3D column mounted on grungy wire mesh using Zaxwerks 3D Layer Warps.

The Dark Knight
In this 30 minute tutorial you’ll learn techniques and workflow used in Adobe After Effects and Illustrator to create the dramatic effect of the Batman icon shattering apart revealing a bright light source behind.

After Effects: Explosive TV promo graphics
In this screen capture of a recent Adobe After Effects e-seminar learn how Adobe Illustrator and Maxon Cinema 4D were used, along with stock footage from Video Copilot’s Action Essentials 2, to create explosive TV promo graphics.

Lightning Strike
In this tutorial you will learn how to Add Rain & Atmosphere then build a Lightning Bolt and hwo to use Action Essentials 2 and make Sam explode

Disintegration
Here you will learn how to build a furious procedural Disintegration effect in AE and Use displacement, turbulence and particle world.

Create a Sci-Fi Movie Title Sequence
This tutorial covers the creation of a space-like si-fi title sequence from scratch. Michael shows us how you can easily create a visually interesting and impressive title animation with some simple title cards and text animation.

The Birth Of A Logo
There was an explosion of characters and thus the Logo was born. In this tutorial we’ll be using some of the new options of Trapcode Particular 2 as well as some techniques with Trapcode Form to create an epic depiction of the first logo in history.

Motion Typo Act.1: Tutorial video animation typography
In this tutorial We are going to learn to give life to our text, animating each word in a rhythmic animation, you will find a lot of things in this detailed tutorial.

Create a MoGraph Urban Jungle
In this tutorial Naim Alwan ventures outside of After Effects for a little bit of 3D Matchmoving to create this stunning Urban Jungle effect where vector graphics are perfectly tracked to some city footage.

Animated Swirls in Adobe After Effects
Animated swirls are all the rage in the motion graphics world, and there are some pretty cool things that can be done with them. But creating and animating such elements is really not as difficult and time-consuming as it would seem, even if the shapes are detailed and intricate. Bring on the swirls!

3D Motion and Position of Text Characters with After Effects
Typography is one of the qualities upon which we base most of our design work, and the type animation engine in After Effects offers a gamut of ways to express typographic flair. One of favorite is the ability to control the 3D motion and position of text characters. When combined with simple camera moves, depth of field, and some real-world studio tricks we use every day, the results can be—literally—powerful. Let’s get started.

Create a Photo Montage with After Effects
Lots of programs and plug-ins create cool photo montages easily and quickly—handy for such things as photo DVDs and slideshows. But what if you don’t have those programs or plug-ins, or you want something a little more creative (yet still as easy to replicate and reuse) using a software program you already own? A few tricks and techniques in After Effects will have you up and running in no time at all.

Making It Look Great 5
A massive 7 Hours of Kick-ass Design, Production and Workflow Techniques for Adobe After Effects

Learn How to Create an Advanced Jumper Effect
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a dynamic disappearing effect from a moving camera shot. Our camera will pan with the actor as he runs, jumps, disappears, and reappears. The actual disappearance also includes a dynamic dissolve and warp effect. And the best part is, no third party plug-ins are required.

Shine Some Light On The Situation
When working on VFX, you can often measure your success by how invisible you are. If the audience doesn’t know there was an effect created, then you did a good job. In this tutorial artist will show you all how to make turn a plain dolly shot into a dynamic room with light rays and a sky replacement.

Boharg II Breakdown
In this tutorial artist will show some Time Remapping, Distortion, and Color Correction tips that could even save you from running into yourself in an old building…

The Dancing Can
In 2008 John Dickinson did a series of roadshows for Adobe where he presented a neat little animation of a dancing can. In this series of tutorials he will walk you step-by-step through various After Effects techniques for creating this spot. This section deals with Puppet Pin tool basics and how to use the cool motion sketch feature to animate to music.

Create Whispy Spirit-like Text
Adam keeps digging through the good ol’ built in CC plugins and continues to come up with very clever and visually awesome solutions. In this tutorial Adam uses CC Smear as the basis to create text that appears in as if a spirit whisped into it.

Futuristic HUD
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create 3D interface display as seen in Iron Man’s helmet and how to Build self-animating components and artificial lighting

Energetic Titles
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use Sure Target preset to achieve advanced 3d moves and will learn advanced tips and create “3d-looking” titles.

Blowing Flowers
In this video tutorial, CreativeCOW leader, Eran Stern demonstrates how to create flower trails using Trapcode Particular in this special holiday episode. You’ll also work with the light emitter and use 3D layer to obscure particles.

3D Light Casting
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create an energy-ball that re-lights the road surface and use reverse-tracking and build a volumetric point light

Colorful Universe
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to Create a dynamic space world with light streams and how to use an expression to create a 3D orbit

Growing 3D Vines
In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a growing 3D vines and animate it using After Effects.

Bitweiser Light
Problems with overerexposed footage? Need to work in 32bpc for nice depth of field and motion blur? Now you can! Convert your footage from 8bpc to 32bpc with new free plugin.

Youveelizer
UV mapping finally available in After Effects. Check out this amazing tutorial to learn how to integrate your 3D artwork with After Effects to improve your workflow, save time and money. It’s a must-see!

Color Grade and Enhance a Horror Shot
In this first part James will teach how to create 2 scenes. First how to take a shot of a mansion and give it an intense and scary look through sky replacement and colour correction. Second we will take a shot of a stone gargoyle face and create a subtle yet creepy effect in which it frowns evilly at an oncoming victim. Be afraid…be very afraid.

Shape Layer Tip #3: Trim Paths
In this video tutorial, Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to use shape layers to easily create that Old-School look where a red dashed line animates over a map to indicate travel destinations.

Animating Spray Paint and Stencil Effect in After Effects
In this tutorial artist is going to show you how to create a spray paint effect using After Effects. It’s a fairly simple process but I’ve got a few tricks that you may not have thought of. Here is a sample video of what you’ll be creating:

Keep Your Eye on the Ball… 3D in After Effects
Animating your After Effects design in 3D space is fun and, for the most part, easy to achieve. However, the camera and objects can have their own agendas in some instances, but a few tricks can change a seemingly uncontrollable camera animation into pure, cool cinematography…

Dynamic Bar Graphs
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a dynamic bar graph with customizable values and streamline graph production without sacrificing quality

Speed Particles
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to use expressions to drive particles based on speed and how to create sandy like particles that fly off of text

P2. Lightning Explosion Part 2
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to Animate a person exploding from a lightning blast and composite footage elements from Action Essentials 2.

Light Streaks 2
Learn how to use light streaks with live action footage and enhanced coloring method and 3D layer control.

Bessie Potter
In this video tutorial, Michael Park demonstrates how to make a dark, cloudy title reveal similar to the one seen in the “Movie Which Must Not Be Named.” All textures and fonts are available in the project download as well as the final CS4 project file.

The Pusher
In this video tutorial, Eran Stern creates a watery liquid push effect and color corrects the shot using the bundled Color Finesse plug-in.

Designing a Graphic From Scratch
In this tutorial artist is going to take you through the steps in producing beautiful graphic.

Kung Fu Energy Ball
In this new tutorial from Pro Juice, Nick takes you through the steps of creating an energy ball with the Particle Filter in Adobe After Effects.
Using a layer of smoke, blurs, colour correction and some masking techniques, Nick shows you how to create the energy ball, give it a burning hot spot, animate it to fly towards the camera and reflect off the nearby fence.

Starting with After Effects
In this tutorial artist is going to explain how easy it is for any photoshop users out there that create a lot of effects-added branding to transform their work into a great and simple animation using After Effects, presumably to spice up your client presentation or intro to your website.

After Effects Tutorial Shatter Effect
A quick tutorial on the SHATTER Effect artist used in making the Promo Intro featured in his Vegas Tutorials on adding sound and sound FX to movie clips. This was made in After Effects CS4 and demonstrat…

3D Paper Crumple with Freeform AE
Now you can easily call it quits within After Effects! Rob uses the example of creating a paper crumple transition to show off the Digieffects plugin Freeform AE. Who knows… this tutorial might just save your job.

Integrating Cinema 4D into After Effects
The more you get into After Effects, the more you realize how cool it is to bring in stuff from outside the program. This tutorial shows how take a scene from Cinema 4D and bring it over into AE. After Effects is a compositing program and this is a perfect example of how to take a basic animation and add some “after effects”!

Earth Zoom
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to create a cosmic Earth zoom in AE and use masking and parenting to link imagery,

Learn to Make a Custom 3D Wall Text Reveal
Using basic AE tools and some expressions you will learn how to create this 3D wall made of custom shapes and a nice laser beam to reveal your text.

Superperson Opening title in After Effects
In this tutorial, Chad Castleberry will walk you through an all new, updated technique to creating an opening title sequence seen in movies like Superman or The Last Starfighter. Concepts covered: The Echo Effect, simple keyframe animation, and using fractal noise to create an interesting starscape.

Fracture Design
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to fracture layers and manipulate in 3D space with ease and how to use expressions, scripts and create a distressed title.

Creating a Tracked Head Wound
In this tutorial Mathias shows that corner pin tracking can do much more than just replacing some pictures on a wall. We are going to compose a wound on a moving head and use the Mocha tracker in combination with his script MochaImport. Trust me, this is so much easier then creating a real head wound!

Create the “My Paper Mind” Effect
This tutorial will teach you how to recreate the “My Paper Mind” effect done by Javan Ivey, but with the environment in mind, Nicolas has come up with a way to save some paper (as well as about 3 days worth of paper cuts!) It is all done in After Effects without any third party plug-ins. Enjoy!

Advanced track and clone in AE
Visual-effects and motion-graphics specialist Angie Taylor shows how to use After Effects’ Clone Stamp tool to convincingly add to moving footage.