26 Wednesday Feb 2014
Posted in Book cover, Composition, Fantasy art, golden ratio, Illustration., Photo compositing, Photoshop, Typography
Tags
composition, Cover Art, Cover design, Desire, golden ratio, Keith Draws, P.T. Michelle, Photo compositiing, Photoshop, Vampire
Patrice had a very specific vision for this cover.
She gave me the stock shot of the Main Character and together we decided I would paint everything else (including the wings).
Realism is always a challenge but I feel it was a great success, combining the best elements of both media.
14 Tuesday Jan 2014
Posted in Composition, Photo compositing, Photoshop, The Rule of Thirds, Typography
Just wow!
Apparently my cover for “The Island” by Teri Hall is breathtaking.
See the actual post here
02 Tuesday Oct 2012
Posted in General, Photo compositing, Photoshop
This is a great video tutorial on creating a cut out mask for hair.
And this is even better:
17 Monday Sep 2012
Posted in General, Photo compositing, Photoshop
3D Buzz is happy to announce that the Photoshop CS6 Fundamentals class that was made freely available to the general public is now available for download… free to all!
You can find the download links here:
http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?193870
I’ll be going through these, you can never know enough.
03 Monday Sep 2012
Posted in Photo compositing, Photoshop
Tags
book cover, cd cover, Cover Art, Cover design, illustration, Keith Draws, kindle, layout, Photo compositiing
This Video is great for a beginner, to learn some basic techniques in photo compositing. Though it’s not mentioned in here I also recommend you get used to working at a minimum of 450 dpi at actual size. When your work is printed it will usually be at 300 dpi, so you will be working at a higher resolution. This is standard practice, and means that you work will be reduced in size when it’s finally printed. The reduction will improve the quality.
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