by jamesgeorge | Aug 19, 2010 | Illustrator, Tutorials
I got this question yesterday, and thought that it would be a good topic for the day. If you want to fit text to a certain shape, you have a couple of options. The first option is to do what is called an envelope distort. First, you make your shape, and then take the...
by jamesgeorge | Aug 17, 2010 | Articles, Photoshop, Tutorials
Create a Psychedelic image in Photoshop This is a neat trick that will give you some really interesting and extremely colorful results. To start off, create a new document. It can be any dimension that you want, and click ok. Mine is set at 1024 x 768. Then, create a...
by jamesgeorge | Aug 16, 2010 | Photoshop, Tutorials
Create a 3D Rainbow With the addition of 3D in Photoshop, you can now create dazzling effects without using another program. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a 3D rainbow from scratch, all inside of Photoshop. First, I am starting out with a black...
by jamesgeorge | Aug 11, 2010 | Quik-tips
When creating type in Photoshop, and you are looking for just the right display face, it helps to use the key commands to get things just how you want them. If you double click your text icon next to the layer, it will highlight your text. Then, simply go up to the...
by jamesgeorge | Aug 7, 2010 | Articles
I was playing around with some of the new stuff inside of Photoshop CS5 and came across one of the new tools that they have included called the mixer brush. This is a great new tool that allows you to take a photo and use different settings to create a painting from...