Which Tutorial.

Just a "quickie," today. Okay, this is a plug for a product, but it is one I believe in. In my opinion it is the BEST tutorial available for Photoshop. There are also versions available for Illustrator and other products.

I recommend the "Classroom in a Book" series, published by Adobe. It is the textbook used by Adobe Certified Trainers for their software. The books take the student through a series of professionally designed projects, from simple through advanced, that are intended to introduce the user to Photoshop's tools and features. The idea is NOT to show the user a series of tricks and effects, but, rather, to show how all these features work together to create effects. The user will have a better understanding of how to use Photoshop as a tool, to repair, modify and even create whatever result the user wants.

The book comes with a disc containing all the images and text needed to complete the projects. I recommend the student does each project TWICE. The first to walk through the steps of the tutorial. The second time through the student should do the project using his or her OWN images and text. The repetition helps the student remember the process and, by having to locate and create their own images, it makes the exercise more like a real life situation.The book works and I highly recommend it.

Now, onto some sample images:

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A sample of my stippling technique.

First, there are NO solid lines in this image. It was originally created by a series of individual dots placed by gently hammering the tip of a felf marking pen onto paper. It is a slow, painstaking process but I LOVE the effects.

In this version of my cat, I scanned the stippled image and then added the eye color in Photoshop, including the reflected highlights.

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Nothing more than marker pen on plain white drawing paper of some kind.

In fact, except for the orange circle in the insignia, the pens used were ordinary markers one can get in any office supply store or grocery market school supply rack. Just black marker and yellow highliner. The shading done in the yellow window and curve of the ship was done by stippling with the tip of a marker pen.

The black sky is just filled in with marker and the stars addes with Wite-Out.

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That's all for today.

Luv,

vince