--Photoshop-- Magma Planet

Create realistic magma planet in adobe photoshop.






1. Open up your "space image", make new layer and draw a circle with Ecliptical Marquee Tool (hold Shift):





2. Fill circle with black Edit>Fill and apply difference clouds filter to it (Filter>Render>Difference Clouds). Apply filter twice:





3. Now go Image>Adjustments>Levels and set:





4. Next step will be Filter>Sharpen>Unsharp Mask with these settings:



after which you have this:





5. Now go Filter>Distort>Spherize and set:



which gives this:





6. Now we gonna set proper color. Image>Adjustments>Color Balance and for Shadows, Midtones and Highlights set:

Shadows:



Midtones:



Highlights:



and now you have something like this:





7. Now just use transform (Ctrl+T) and a little bit of Blur Tool for edges od planet and you have your final result:

--Flash-- Animated Super Mario

A brief tutorial about making an animated sprite character in Macromedia Flash




Macromedia Flash

--Macromedia Flash-- iPod Flash Site

This is tutorial on how to make a simple Flash site with iPod interface.

1. Open new flash document, set dimensions based on your image, set frame rate to 25 and import your iPod image (Ctrl+R):




2. Lock layer with background image and make new layer for links (buttons):




3. Use text tool to create links on new layer:



4. Now convert links to buttons (select every link separately and pres F8 to convert it):




5. Now select Rectangle Tool and draw shape over iPod's display. Select it and press F8 to convert to Movie Clip:




6. Also set Instance Name: display





7. Set Alpha: 60% for display





8. Now double click on display to enter it's stage and move first frame to right form 1st to 2nd frame (drag it) just like this:





9. Now select first frame and in actionscript write code: stop();





10. Select 26th frame (left click on it) and press F6 to expand timeline to 26th frame with same keyframe as 2nd one:





11. Select 2nd frame and transform display like this:





12. Now set display's Alpha to 0% on 2nd frame:











Next Page ---> iPod Flash Site part2

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--Macromedia Flash-- iPod Flash Site part2

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13. Now create Shape Tween:





14. Insert new layer for content and on 26th frame (last one) of new layer add content that will appear when someone click on link 1 (in our case "About iPod" link):





15. Insert one more layer that will be used for actions and on first frame enter its name: "l1"





16. Now drag it form 1st to 2nd frame:





17. Select 26th frame (last one) on last layer, insert keyframe and in actionscript write code: stop();





18. Now select all frames on stage from 2nd to 26th and copy frames:





19. Than select 27th frame for all 3 layers and paste frames:





20. Change name "l1" to "l2":





21. Also replace content for l2 (link 2) on last frame in 2nd layer:





22. Repeat steps from 18 to 21 for the other two links.



23. Go back to root, select link 1 (About iPod) and in action script write this code:

on (release){
_root.display.gotoAndPlay("l1");
}





24. Do the same thing for other 3 links except "l1" for link 2 will be "l2":


on (release){
_root.display.gotoAndPlay("l2");
}



For link 3 it will be "l3"... (you got the point)



Thats it! Flash site is finished!



You can see finished flash site by clicking on link below:

iPod Flash Site

You can download finished .fla file here:

Download .fla file

If you have any questions about this tutorial contact me: chilefirst@gmail.com

V-Ray Usage

VRay render usage. This will show you how to model a glass using V-Ray in 3ds Max. You need a VRay plug in to do this.





V-Ray

tanks to ~dragun [ www.ievolution.com.br ]

Pencil Drawing

Extremely easy and "good resulting" tutorial on how to make a perfect sketch from any image.

1. Open your image



2. Desaturate it, Image>Adjustments>Desaturate:



3. Duplicate layer (Layer>Duplicate Layer) and invert colors Image>Adjustments>Invert:



4. Now in layer palette select Color Dodge:

and now yu should have this (don't worry it will be ok):



5. Now go Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set Radius to 9 pixels:




and that's it. You're done! Your final result:

--Photoshop-- Cartoonize Photo

There are only few steps needed to make cartoon effect from any photo.

Before:


After:




1. Open your photo and go Filter>Artistic>Poster Edges and set:



2. Now click on "create new fill or adjustment layer" on the bottom of layer palette

click on Hue/Saturation and set:


Now you have this:



You can see that colors are not adequate to cartoon colors so we have to adjust them...

3. Go Layer>Layer Style>Blending Options and set:



and now we have our final result:



Enjoy!