Photoshop/digital photo techniques

[Evan Wiener]

I love Alex Maleev's work. Where else other than Daredevil can I find it?

I am designing some graphics for an urban T-shirt company's web site, and thought Alex's style is great as reference.

Any artists have any good links to Photoshop techniques and illustration techniques that can give my digital shots of Philly a real gritty edge to them?

[Alex(sadly)Maleev]

Don't know of any links, the only tutorial I ever posted was for painting.
tutorial (http://homepage.mac.com/amaleev/tutorial/PhotoAlbum50.html)

[GelfXIII]

There are a lot of professional sites with a wealth of tutorials and online info. The best of these (IMO) is Creative Cow (http://forums.creativecow.net/index.html). Lots of great Photoshop stuff in there, as well as almost every other creative software in existence... pretty much all done by working professionals. (Wow, I sound like an advert, don't I? :lol: )

[Evan Wiener]

Thanks, I've been itching for new techniques!

[Michael Lark]

Get Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter. Get a good scanner. Get a good Wacom tablet (make sure you at least get an Intuos model - don't get a Graphire, they suck - I'm speaking from experience) and experiment. Experimentation and practice will teach you so much more than any tutorial.

[St.-]

Don't know of any links, the only tutorial I ever posted was for painting.
tutorial (http://homepage.mac.com/amaleev/tutorial/PhotoAlbum50.html)

nice, i missed this one.

[Hollingsworth]

All that, and remember all you Mac people, get a two or three button mouse, and whenever you're learning software, use the right mouse button to bring up contextual menus that will increase your super powers ten fold. Get rid of, burn, destroy all one button mice.

Please.

-M

Get Photoshop, Illustrator, and Painter. Get a good scanner. Get a good Wacom tablet (make sure you at least get an Intuos model - don't get a Graphire, they suck - I'm speaking from experience) and experiment. Experimentation and practice will teach you so much more than any tutorial.

[GelfXIII]

All that, and remember all you Mac people, get a two or three button mouse, and whenever you're learning software, use the right mouse button to bring up contextual menus that will increase your super powers ten fold. Get rid of, burn, destroy all one button mice.

Please.

-M
AMEN!!!! Go tell it onna mountain Brudda! Did you see that Mac is FINALLY promoting a 2 button mouse on their web site? It's about bloody time!

[Hollingsworth]

Yeah, I saw that. Once I started getting interested in Maya a couple of years ago, I had to get a three button mouse for the software. Then, it just opens those doors up. It's pretty great. I go over to a friend's place often who has a Mac and go monkey around on their computer and honestly can't do much with one button. It's a nightmare.

My other big complaint is the UI in the Mac OS. It's ugly as fuck, I think, and also very lame to navigate and move around in. I wish they'd just use a browser based folder structure like others. I hate the Finder, think it's crap. Also wish they had more customization of the UI built into it. I'm running Tiger on my old Mac at home, which is basically my iTunes box (it's 6 years old, afterall). Mac hardware, on the other hand, is the best anywhere, IMHO. My six year old Mac has not had much of any troubles, whereas the 2 year old Dell is a piece of crap.

And, anybody who wants to take me on, bring your game. I'll crush you all.

:-)

I hate Windows, so don't even start with me. I spend 90% of my day on Linux, which is the best of all worlds. 10% of the time still have to use Windows for Photoshop, though. Photoshop runs on Linux, but runs like shit. At least until they port it over, which I hear they are working on.

All the matte painters in film are on Macs.... or at least ALL of the ones I've met or known....

-M

[AvidFan]

my mac died!!! and I'm having to use a low spec pc with 'doze'XP... will this hell never end!?!?!?!

and thats another (UK?) problem wi macs... spare parts! unless you trust someone on ebay, it can get expensive to replace 'em.

been drooling over some new sexy lil mac though... gonna save my pennies and get her so we can do naughty things until the we small hours together... grrrr!


AF.