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Akuma
I painted this in Photoshop as a gift for one of my friends for xmas. It happens to be both of our favorite Street Fighter character.
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Electrified Games Figure
We had a holiday gift exchange at work for the art department. It was a white elephant and the gift had to be crafted in some way. This was what I made, a figure of our logo, with light up eyes. Kristen, our sound engineer ended up with it and she says that it proudly lives on the speaker in the studio at work now.
All the gifts were great.
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Pumpkin Snowman
We had small decorative pumpkins left over from Thanksgiving so I used them to create a Nightmare Before Christmas style pumpkin snowman.
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Function Fridays - Photoshop
Adjustment layers.
Making an adjustment layer allows you to do things like “non-distructively” edit levels, hue and saturation, etc. for every layer underneath it. Putting it at the top of all the layers will affect the whole image.
Sometimes you want to affect only a single part of an image. For instance, in the Manta Claus image that I just posted I only wanted to affect the images that I was compositing in like the Santa hat and sack of toys. I could have done this by making a mask which is a good idea if you are working with a flattened image. For this I was able to put the adjustment layer over the hat layer, hold Option (Alt) and click between the layers. Doing this links the adjustment layer to only one layer, in this case the hat. You are also able to stack multiple adjustments to one layer in the same way.
The perk of doing this in a non-destructive manor is that I can go back and make adjustments or turn off the effect without damaging the layer or causing it to look worse from applying and repairing changes.
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This would be an awesome movie.
I did this in reply to an email I received about Manta Claus, which to my disappointment was not this but an Old Spice viral marketing thing. The email encouraged other Photoshopped images from the art team that I work with. I only spent about 5 min on this but it came out pretty good.
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Function Fridays - Illustrator
The hidden menu.
I have been using Illustrator for over 10 years now and this menu has remained in every version I have used over the years and most people I talk to do not know about it. I thought it was fitting to show off this weekend as everyone gets ready for the soon approaching Christmas Holiday.
First locate the status bar at the bottom of any AI doc:
It is currently set to show me my current tool. If I click on it I have a few options of what information it can display:
Now instead of just clicking on it, if I Option+Click on it addition hidden functions appear:
You will notice the last option will count down the days until xmas. However, I set mine to Eyes which follow every move you make. Play with the options and have some fun.
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Function Fridays - Photoshop
Solo a single layer.
It is easy to accumulate a mass of layers when working on big projects in Photoshop and some times it is easier to isolate a specific layer to work on it. It is also a good way of locating what content is on each layer.
To solo a layer hold Option (alt) and left click the eye icon next to the layer to solo it. Option clicking the layer again will reset the layers to their previous off or on settings.
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Function Fridays - Design
One of the most important things I have ever learned in design and it applies to everything from concept art (epsecially), to 2D and 3D production work;
Form follow funtion.
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Function Fridays - Photoshop
NEW LAYER AND GROUP TRICKS
At the bottom of the Layer window are buttons for “New Layer” and “New Group”, pressing them does just that. However, pressing those buttons with a modifier key on the keyboard will give you some useful variations.
New Layer
+ option : Opens the layer info window before creating the layer. This gives you a chance to name the layer and set some other options before adding it to your current layers.
+ command : Creates the new layer under the currently selected layer.
New Group
+ option : Opens the group info window before creating the group folder. This gives you a chance to name the group and set some other options before adding it to your current layers.
+ command : Creates the new group under the currently selected layer.
+ shift : Adds currently selected layers to the new group upon creation. This is very helpful when you have a bunch of layers you have already created and want to group.
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