Tabla de contenidos para No. 142 en Photoshop Creative

Masks are one of the most-used features in Photoshop, and it’s easy to see why. Being able to edit photos without losing information offers the freedom to experiment and ultimately create original works of art. This issue’s feature shows you how to composite some of the most incredible scenes thanks to masks. Follow the guides on p18, then have a go at creating your own masterpiece. Also in this issue are step-by-step tutorials on making an abstract portrait, turning photos to sketches with filters, drawing a unique map with the Pen tool, and much more. There are also advanced guides on expert compositing and taking portrait shots further, plus a pro guide on creative advertising to help you master the tricks of the trade when it comes to dynamic designs.…

Flying start 09:00 First of all, a brief window of time to go through emails, catch up on projects with the account managers and check up on possible deadlines in the pipeline. Basically, I work out what needs to be done today. Then I start. TFI Friday 11:00 If it’s Friday, I take a break now to enjoy ‘Friday treats’, which is a selection of nibbles and snacks for everyone to enjoy. Gotta be quick to the table, though, otherwise they’ll all be gone! Back to the grindstone 11:30 After discussing through the ideas and sketches on whatever today’s main project is, I might move into crafting the executions in 3D and then use Photoshop to add the branding and finishing touches. Lunch time 12:45 It’s time to take a…

Essentials Works with Elements CS CC What you’ll learn How to use layer groups, masks and warp to create a water guitar Time taken 5 hours Expert Rodrigo Marinelli “I really like the photorealism style; it’s very challenging to create an image like this. After making this guitar, I spent a lot of time creating similar images. It’s a great exercise for creativity and it’s always a good learning task. “I’m an art director and have 11 years of experience in advertising agencies. I learned, and am still learning to use Photoshop through following tutorials.” One of the best feelings for any artist is when you have the idea to create an image, composite a scene, or make something related to art that you have never seen before. And Photoshop…

Essentials Works with Elements CS CC What you’ll learn Create an eye-catching composition using masks and filters Time taken 2 hours Expert Daniel Sinoca “Surreal compositions are one of my favourite subjects. There’s nothing better than the Liquify filter for surreal effects. It enables me to play with images to create scenes and dreamy characters. “I started to get involved in the digital world more than 10 years ago and have been working as a freelance artist ever since, creating all kinds of multimedia projects and tutorial guides.” In this Dalí-inspired composition, we’ll reveal how simple tweaks can create an amazing image. We’ll guide you through several techniques, such as masking, refining edges, creating groups and more. You’ll start by creating a background using basic masks to blend the images,…

Essentials Works with Elements CS CC What you’ll learn Work with the Pen tool, shapes, align options and Path Selection tools Time taken 5 hours Expert Moe Hezwani “I’m totally obsessed with the Pen tool; it’s definitely my chosen tool whenever I open up Photoshop. The best way to create lots of little vector shapes, as in this illustration, is to combine basic shapes and the Pen tool. “I’m a professional graphic designer/illustrator, and Photoshop is my go-to platform for my designs.” Research is one of the first tasks an illustrator or a designer has to perform before touching Photoshop. When creating a map collage like this, you need to learn what the country has to offer, and where the landmarks, nature and animals are located. Doing this not only…

Working in Fuse 01 Zoom Zoom in and out by using the mouse wheel (ensure the cursor is within the canvas). If you don’t have a mouse wheel, Shift+click and drag up or down. 02 Pan Move the model around by panning. Click the first tool on the left (if it isn’t already selected), or simply hit P. Click and drag to pan. 03 Rotate Use the next tool, Rotate (R), to (you guessed it) rotate your model. Using Rotate along with Pan and Zoom will enable you to get a really good look at all of your customisations. 04 Center Often you’ll need to quickly get an overall view of things. Click the Center camera icon or hit the shortcut F to see your whole model.…

About the artist Alena Tkach alenatkach.com Alena is an accomplished 2D artist and illustrator from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is a professional freelance illustrator and mainly uses her designs for games and children’s books. Alena studied at the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, and has been featured by the likes of Bored Panda, Behance’s Game Design and Illustration featured galleries, as well as Neonmob. Name of the project My First English Words Illustrators can sometimes make a good living by using their talents to design for books. Often we think of illustrations as simply complementing the words in a book but in some cases, the images take on a more essential role. And in the case of Alena Tkach’s My First English Words, the pictures are just as important…

Essentials Time taken 4 hours Expert Nadegda Mihailova “ I like to combine ordinary photos to make something new and unusual, as well as work with bright colours and light. By using different pictures and Photoshop you can implement almost any idea, create a desired character or costume, add interesting effects and much more. It gives incredible creative freedom. In this tutorial we will consider techniques and tools that I usually use in my work. “I am a retoucher and illustrator, and have been creating photomanipulations for about five years. I use different pictures and a rich variety of Photoshop tools.” If you would like to see more of Nadegda’s stunning work, you just have to visit www.behance.net/ mihailova. In this tutorial, we’ll create a fantasy scene of a warrior…

TURN INTO A POSTER Psychedelic artwork looks fantastic as a poster if you create it at a big enough size. COLOUR Experiment with various lomo styles to find the colours that look best in your artwork. Like so many things, art comes round in cycles. Instant film and retro cameras are back in fashion, as is 1960s-style psychedelic art. The psychedelic style of art is simple; it relies on bright colours and trippy visuals to take you on a magical tour beyond the mundane. This tutorial combines fun photo-editing techniques to turn your picture technicolour, with practical layer management. Though the final image might look like a saturated explosion of greens and pinks, there’s very careful duplicating and rotating involved. Sharpening and vignetting is used to focus the viewer’s attention…

”My dream is to become a professional retoucher,” says Jennifer Renson, a 36-year-old from Belgium who discovered Photoshop in 2008. Jennifer taught herself how to use the program, and has been retouching and constructing Photoshop compositions ever since. We asked her what she’s learned in the last eight years, and what tips she can share with beginners. Have you always been artistic and how did you discover Photoshop? Yes, I think I’ve always been interested in art. As a child, I spent a lot of time drawing. Later I joined the Académie des Beaux-Arts for weekend courses. In 2008, I did a one-week training course to learn Photoshop because I thought it might be fun. I found it really cool and discovered the huge possibilities available in this magical tool.…

Essentials Works with Elements CS CC What you’ll learn Use blend modes, textures and photos to create an abstract portrait Time taken 6 hours Expert Rodrigo Marinelli “Creating abstract art is a great challenge for me, because it’s very difficult to keep this kind of artwork simple, yet interesting at the same time. So tackling a project like this helps me to enhance my design style, which is always a good thing! “I’m an art director and have 11 years of experience in advertising agencies. I learned, and am still learning to use, Photoshop through following lots of tutorials.” Taking photos is a fun pastime, and the improvement of smartphone cameras makes it incredibly easy to capture anything that catches your eye, knowing the quality is good enough to be…

Control shapes 01 Draw circles Make a circle using the Ellipse tool and then make a smaller circle inside it, all on the same shape layer. Use the same technique as in step 3. Then align them together. 02 Cutout Select both circles using the Path Selection tool (make sure you hold down Shift) then click Exclude Overlapping Shape Area from the top panel. Now combine them. 03 Draw rectangles On the same shape layer, make two rectangles, being sure to click Add To Shape Area and combine them together. Next align those rectangles with the circle, both horizontally and vertically. 04 Copy and rotate Lastly, duplicate rectangles and rotate them 90 degrees. To do this, head over to Transform Path>Rotate and in Set Rotation on the top panel, type…

Essentials Time taken 80 hours The artist Lie Setiawan Lie Setiawan (www.lie ) is a concept artist and illustrator from Jakarta, Indonesia, specialising in fantasy and sci-fi art. He is a self-taught artist www t . and i h has xe been ositess working om in this e field el since osit 2010. Lie has been drawing since he was a child, but didn’t pursue his hobby seriously until he discovered ConceptArt.org. Juniper Tree was created by Lie Setiawan as a school assignment. The task was to take one of Grimms’ fairytales and make a cover for it. Lie began with several thumbnails to define the composition. He narrowed them down to three thumbnails, on which he composed rough sketches. He then chose a final sketch to complete. Lie mainly…

Essentials Time taken 2hours Expert Vicki-Lea Boulter “ The idea behind this female portrait was to make the subject look beautiful and powerful. Using the Clarity slider in Camera Raw gave this particular subject an HD effect, and layering in a bright light behind the subject also contributed to lifting her out from the background. “I am a creative portrait photographer from Devon in the UK. I make images mostly of women and children that express their personalities and ideas that they bring to me through artistic storytelling images. I use Photoshop in all the work I do as a tool to layer my digital art, photographs and other mediums together, fusing several textures and ideas to form one concept.” See www.vickiboulter.com for more of Vicki-Lea’s work. To create a…

There’s nothing more inspiring than surfing the internet and seeing what other artists are creating, and we encourage you to do so. Here are some of our favourite pictures that caught our attention recently, from some of the world’s most exciting artists and designers. Allan Kingsbury www.behance.net/ alscompdf53 I first made a background from Photoshop brushes and then applied a noise filter. More brushwork was applied on a layer over the background. A Flood filter to create the river was applied, then some more brushes were applied over each side of the river. Jakub Cichecki www.jakubcichecki.com I started painting basic shapes with a regular round brush over a simple pencil sketch. Then I worked out a basic colour scheme and started adding details like the simplified tree pattern. I used…

Masks are one of the most-used features in Photoshop, and can be applied to simple photo edits and complex compositions. When creating a photomanipulation, however, they’re pretty much essential. Masks enable you to edit photos without losing information. It’s therefore possible to make endless combinations, experimenting until you achieve the effect you’re after. Throughout this feature we take masks and use them to their full potential to help create incredible outdoor scenes. Getting up close to the elements, you’ll discover how to make stunning compositions, whether on land, under water, in fire, on snow, in a futuristic environment or somewhere only your imagination could transport you to. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN… COMPOSITE A MINI WORLD Merge photos and textures with some help from masks, filters and other incredible tools. ADD…

Essentials Works with Elements CS CC What you’ll learn How use create a splattered painting from a photo Time taken 4 hours Expert Mark White “I love mixing styles, and in this picture I particularly like the way the different types of brushes all interact together. The spatters and strokes are created from acrylic paint, but the airbrushing and paint drips really give this painting a street-art vibe. “As senior staff writer on Photoshop Creative, I’ve learned all kinds of quick tips to help with even the most impressive-looking pictures.” Brushes are a digital artist’s primary weapons. They can literally transform a blank canvas into a finished masterpiece, and with so many brushes on offer, the sky is the limit in terms of style when you’re painting in Photoshop. If…

Essentials Time taken 12 hours The artist Kevin Roodhorst “I’m a 25-year-old digital artist and retoucher from Almere in the Netherlands. I work mostly with Photoshop, Illustrator, RealFlow, Cinema 4D and HDR Light Studio. My work has been published in 37 design magazines in countries such as the Netherlands, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, India and Australia.” Check out more of Kevin’s work at www.kevinroodhorst.com/ Kevin Roodhorst is an artist who works in all kinds of different styles, and even with a mix of software. He specialises in high-end creative imaging and editorial/commercial advertising. Transcendence sees him mix a traditional portrait with various shapes, masking and blending disparate objects to create a coherent piece of artwork, and a mixed-media piece of sorts. “I combine stock photos, CGI, matte painting,…

Essentials Time taken 15 hours The artist Dan Mumford “I am a freelance illustrator, mainly working within the pop-culture scene, creating screenprints, posters, album covers and more. My clients to date include such names as Disney Sony, Iron Maiden, Wizards of the Coast, and more.” See examples of Dan’s work at dan-mumford.com or follow him on Twitter@danmumforddraws. This image is part of a series of seven prints by Dan Mumford, based on the seven Classic Wonders of the World. Being a screenprint, Mumford was limited in how many colours he could use, so had to get creative in how he layered them. “I create all my work in Photoshop primarily,” says Mumford. “This generally starts with a basic colour sketch. I work on the layers one at a time, adding…

IS IT POSSIBLE TO CREATE OBJECTS THAT LOOK 3D? 3D-specific tools are only available in Photoshop, but that doesn’t mean you can’t create objects that look as though they are 3D in Elements. For this patch of earth, all that is used is a stock photo of some dirt. Select a rectangle and use the Transform tool to skew the earth slightly; do so on the other side, and then add clipping masks of black and white Overlay layers to either side to give the object light and shade. Select a square of ‘dirt.jpg’ from the FileSilo, and transform so it fits on top of the sides you’ve created. If you wish to create a curved object, clip a black to white layer set to Overlay. For the rest of…