Making Text Effect (meebu fx)


	1) New document Horizontal Type Tool, write whatever you like rasterize the layer..

	2) Use these settings Drop Shadow; Outer Glow; Inner Glow, Bevel & Emboss; Color overlay.

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Red Text Fx in Photoshop


	1) Open a new document 500 X 500 white background. Type any word you like with balck color.

	2) Bevel settings.

	3) Contour settings.

	4) Stroke settings.

	5) Drop Shadow settings.

	6) To add the following effect just select the layer of your type and contract it by 3 to 6 pixel than just follow the red text tutorial here.
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Glow text Effect in Photoshop


	1) New Document, background whatever you like works best with light backgrounds.

	2) New layer, select the Horizontal Type Tool (T) and write whatever you like..

	3) Right click on the layer then select outer glow. Choose blue color hex: #0099FF; opacity 100%; spread 15% ;size 24px blend mode color dodge.

	4) Duplicate layer and change the color and settings: Color hex: #0066CC; opacity 100%; Spread 0; Size 13 blend mode Screen.

	5) Duplicate layer and change settings/color. Color white; opacity 100%; Spread 0; Size 3px blend mode color dodge.

...............EnD................	6) Thats it you can add a gradient/stroke/bevel to your text.

Making abstract renders in 3d max and photoshop ( Tutorial )

Before you start:

You need photoshop and 3d max. This is one long tutorial so get some soda, put on a movie and relax. ;)

Step 1 Make the shape

I hope your smart enough to have opened 3d max already so if not do so. I have 3d max 5.1 so if your using a version higher then im sure you can stil get the same effect if not better. So first we need to get our basic render shape. So girst make a Geosphere

Now we have something like that. Simple huh well now we have to add modifers to it to make it all abstract. So while the Geosphere is selected goto the modifers window.

Now to add the modifers to get the shape we want. First add Noise. You need to change the settings to get the shape you want.

Those are the settings I used and this is what I got from those. That is what kind of shape we want to make the best abstract design. Its sharp and looks damn cool right now. :) Also add a smooth mesh modifer too to make it nice and smooth. ( View image for all the settings )

Step 2 Create the abstract

Now we will create the abstract shape that we will make our render from. See out main finished render is not one complete 3d max file but a large number of the same render put together in photoshop. Ok now that is all cleared up we must duplicate the shape we have a it will all start to make sense. Ok this one is simple, select your shape and hold shift and simply move it to the left or right to copy it.
( View image )

Now we have to add more modifers. So select all you shapes at once and goto the modifers window. We will first add TWIST.

That is the shape I got after I added the twist modiger. here are the settings I used to get the effect.

So now we have some crazy abstract shape. Look cool, but not nearly as cool as we can make it. Well one thing, if your shape doesnt look anything like mine dont worry cause the effect will be different each time you do it. Plus you can also add more modifers such as bend to get more effects. Ok so now copy that shape like you did before. But make sure you have all of them selected. You should get something like this. Remember you dont have to copy me exactly.

Step 3 Field of view

Now we have to change the camera angle of render. To do that simply take the Field of view tool and pull the view of the render back to get a nice angle of view.

Rendering!!

1.Make sure your image looks the way you want it to be rendered. So the pic above is what I want the render to look like.
2. Now add a material.I didn't go all out with material cause really I just am way to tired to make a nice material. But thats not stoping you from making one. If you dont know how to make them well quit 3d max now cause your hopeless ;)
3. Ok we have our material and now we need to light the render. This one you should also know. I hope...but I will show you anyway.
4. Ok that was easy huh. Ok we have a material, a light and its all good. Ok now to Render.

So click on that and then down to render. Or hit f10 , then this should come up.

4b. Ok now that you have your render size typed in and your AA filter hit the render button.
So the render should finish and now you have to save it. Just click save and save as a jpeg.

Render it again and again

Ok what we need to do now is get about 5 to 6 more renders. Why? So we can make the image. Ok so remember how we rotated the render around so it looked different each time. Ya you remember that. So just do that a few more times and render each of them. Get it? Didnt think so....Ok so rotate the render around so it looks different and is at a different angle to have a different look at it. Then once you like that render it save it. By the way if when you move the render around and you get really bad "lag" its because of the MESH SMOOTH literations, change it to 1 to make it go faster.

Examples of the render in different angles.

Take note that render I made is very smooth and doesnt have a nice sharp angles and points and it doesnt look that great. That means I should have spent more time on my render and more time on the Noise modifer and tried to get it to be sharper. Dont worry you can always fix that. Just start over :) It takes a few tries to get it right. ( View image )

Photoshop

Now open photoshop and open up all the renders you made. Make a new 1600x3000 canvas and start adding your renders. This is where it all comes together. So here we go. You made 5 or 6 renders right? Now add them to the blank canvas and move them around and resize them and rotate them around and stick them together to get a nice image.

That's it :)
Example done using this technique.

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3DStudio Max Modelling tutorial

This tutorial should cover the full details of my method of modeling in 3d studio max. Note that this tutorial has been made in reverse starting with the final model (due to post-create demand for a tutorial) so the views you may see not look the same as yours also the specifix numverics on arrays are estimated.

Step 1:( View image )
Press f10, and set the required size of your render (ie 1000x1600) press close go to customize --> viewport config go to the safe frames tab and select show safe frames in active view now the canvas is set up.

Step 2:( View image )
From the standrad primatives create a torus, and angle it approximately like so ignore where the ground is in the image - its is reverse-engineered) create another torus within the first as shown.

Step 3:( View settings )( View image )
Group the two objects and apply a modifier --> Noise seed 1 x-strength 300 the result is shown above.

Step 4:( View image )
Use a Tools --> Array : Move x -40 y +15

Step 5:( View image )
Group the whole arm and apply another array rotate x+30 y+30

Step 6:( View image )
Groupe the 'spiral' and duplicate twice, move one just behind to build up the front structure with the second move it above. Behind and slightly rotated the fill more of the future canvas.

Step 7:( View image )
create the standard omni-light and position low on the right to create dramatic lighting across the front objects.

Step 8:( View image )
Heavily increase the "field of view" level and zoom back in until you achieve something similar to above.

Step 9:( View settings )( View settings 2 )
Under the materials set the ambient and diffuse colors to a nice blue/green set the specular level to 100 and the glossiness to 30. Under the material map set the opacity with a standard perlin marble map at 100% apply this material to all of the object groups

Step 10:( View image )
Press f10 and render

Here's an example where the model is used.

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CG Clothes Tutorial - Photoshop tutorial

CGing clothes is directly the same as CGing skin , when CGing different colors, keep colors on different layers (i.e Red shirt on Layer 1, Blue Jeans on Layer2) this helps to keep the colors from accidentally blending with each other..

1. Create a new layer. Using paintbrush on 100% opacity, fill in all the clothing areas of the desired color base. Don't worry about the sloppiness, it will be fixed later.

2. Using a midtone (slightly darker) shade of your base color with paintbrush on 25% opacity, shade in the areas that would have shadows. Afterwards, switch the opacity to 50% and continue (Use same shading technique as the Skin shading - this can bea bit sloppy too.)

3. Next, using a deeptone ( darker than midtone ) with the paintbrush back to 25% opacity, add shadows ONLY where it would be darkest. Use this deeptone to detail the shadowing.

4. Now, Blur all the shadowing you just did - this creates the smooth gradient instead of the cell shaded type of CG.

5. Take the Dodge tool on Highlights and 50% opacity, Sparingly highlights the areas that would reflect sunlight.Blur the highlights afterwards.

6. Erase all excess stuffs.

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Eye Painting tutorial in photoshop

This will take you through the process of painting an eye. As usual I strongly recommend using a tablet.
	Here I started with a hand-drawn sketch. In lack of a scanner I took a quick photo of the sketch, hence the bad quality. You can make your sketch right in photoshop, painter or whatever software package you are using. Rough outlines are enough, but you should already give your eye a characteristic shape.
	Start to paint some thick strokes around the eye, a standard brush will be sufficient here, but of course you can experiment with your brush settings to make it easier to paint. I made some brighter strokes to indicate where my light source will be.
	I added a few more tones. I do not really care about my colour, since I will change it in the end anyway. Also I strengthened some of the defining lines.
	More lines to better define my eyes shape.
	In this step I cleaned up the annoying background, and painted the eyeball. This is quite easy, keep in mind that it is a ball, so you will have to shade accordingly. The farther away you get from the pupil, the darker should it be.
	Now comes the most difficult part. The iris. First, start off by filling it with a solid colour. Then pick a small brush and make short strokes from the pupil outwards. Change your colour a few times here, if you look close at a photograph of an iris you can see lots of different shades and small strokes. This step determines how realistic your eye will look. The more and the smaller your lines, the more realistic will it look. Zooming in is a good idea
	You might want to smoothen the iris a bit, the technique is up to you, you can smudge it, or, like I did, overpaint it a little. I also added highlight and darkened the pupil. The pupil got a small highlight too.
	What is left is to shade your eye. The shading will add plasticity and can also help to define the emotion which is expressed by the eye. If you go the easy way then pick dodge/burn, the more work-intensive, but better looking way is to add more layers and paint the highlights and shadows.
	This is what I have come up with, after some colour tweaking and some more work on the details. I hope this has been a help for you

Circuit Effect - ( Photoshop tutorial )

Step 1) The first step is to create a new images with 300pixels by 300pixels and a resolution of 100. Make sure that the content type is set to transparent. (you can make it whatever size you want but we'll use these dimensions for this tutorial.)

Step 2) In the layer window add 2 extra layers.

Step 3) In “layer 1” add some clouds. Filter>Render>clouds.
You should have something that looks like this.

Step 4) Do the same in layer 2 and 3 by clicking on each layer and pressing Ctrl-F. each layer will be different but in layer 3 try to make it more light than dark by pressing Ctrl-F until you get it. They should look something like this.

Layer 2 layer 3

Step 5) Start with layer 1 and use the mosaic pixelate filter on it. Set cell size to 12
Filter>Pixelate>Mosaic.

In layer 2 do the same but set cell size to 10. And in layer 3 set cell size to 8.
Your layers should look like this. (notice that the cells get slightly smaller in each picture)

Layer 1 Layer 2 Layer 3

Step 6) In each layer and the “find edges” filter. Filter>Stylize>Find edges.

Layer 1 Layer 2 Layer 3

Step 7) Start with layer 1 and use the glowing edges filter,. Filters>Stylize>Glowing edges. Then continue with layer 2 and 3 by using the same filter. Follow images below, they contain the attributes for each layer's glowing edges filter.

Layer 1

Now on to Layer 2

Layer 3

Step 8) set layer 3's opacity to 36% and layer 2's opacity to 70%. It should look something like this. All the images blended together.

You can change the opacities to whatever you want to make it how you want it.

Step 9) Flatten the Image. Layer>Flatten image

Step 10)Change the hue of the image to make it look “computery”
Image>adjustments>Hue/Saturation. The following settings are what I used but you can make it any colour you want. make sure you have the colorize box checked.

Finished - the finished product should look something like this…

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3D Max Tute(Creating a glass)

Creating a glass object with

Max and V-ray

This tutorial, very is simple, but I guess it will help on some people :). I will make a special glass using Max and for the renderer V-ray. Most of the people do glass by using lathe, my version is a little different. So here are the steps:

1. Create a line in front viewport that will be the profile of the glass:

Draw a circle in top view

Select the circle, go to the Modifiers list and select Bevel Profile, and on Pick Profile, select the first shape:

Convert this to an editable Poly select the top and delete

Go to Modifiers Panel and select Shell (is available only for Max 6 as I know), and adjust the thickness of the object how you like

Now to make the special for of the glass we need to cut a little of the top, using booleans. We will use a box like so:

And go to Compound Objects and use Booleans

The problem is that now we have some artifacts - the face there is not ok. Deleting the face or the edge has now worked.

So we will insert a vertex or two on that line and use Target weld to the opposite vertexes to correct this.

Same proble here:

Now all is ok. Select the edges and chamfer them twice, just a little. If you wish to make the bottom of the glass thicker just select the bottom of the glass and drag it down.

I have modified the shape of the glass by using the Taper tool from the Modifiers list.

First choose V-ray renderer. Not fancy rendering settings, just in the V-ray: Image Sampler(Antialising), turn of the Adaptive subdivision. For the glass materials use this settings:

and for the liquid this

For the lighting I have used an Omni light, V-ray shadows cheked and on V-ray shadows parameters check Transparent shadows and area shadow. Use a plane for the scene and assign a white color to this.

It looks fine, but not really :). The glass need something to reflect. To do this use a HDRI map. You can find some HDRI images at this address http://athens.ict.usc.edu/Probes/