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‘Recently I read a magazine and saw a picture of a nice and simple CD-Cover from Israel Houghton . I liked it, so I decided to make a tutorial on how to make a cover similar to this one.‘ So far the story of this tutorial ! In this short tutorial we’ll make a CD-Cover using Photoshop CS3+.

After this tutorial you’ll know how to apply to color schemes to a design, to adjust the ‘leading’ and ‘tracking’ of fonts and using capitals. The outcome of this tutorial is shown on the left.

Before actually opening photoshop, we’ll look at the colorscheme:

Welcome to M-Sign! In this tutorial we are going to make a beautiful party poster for a summerparty using Photoshop . So what we want to achieve is a sunny and festive look. We’ll start with the bottom layer, and then move in, like we did in the previous tutorial (For more tutorials, look in the tutorials categories!). What you’ll learn in this tutorial is the use of custom brushes, gradients, groups and fonts. Also textures and stock pictures will be used.

Enough talk, on the left you can see what you’ll able to make after finishing this tutorial. In this tutorial are some custom fonts and brushes used. All credit of these custom items are to the original makers. The version of Photoshop that was used for this tutorial was Photoshop CS3.

When using a 3D programma, and especially using transparant materials, and index of refreaction is used. In Blender 3D, the open source 3D package, an Index of Refraction can be set up when using ray transparancy, and this is also possible in other 3D packages. To achieve a realistic result, knowing the right refraction indexes is very useful. We see an example of refraction in the image on the left, but what exactly is transparancy, and what Refraction indexes do common materials have?

Sometimes it is really hard to get to working, or to get the right inspiration for one of your design works. The best idea’s also do not originate by hard-thinking and trying to get the right solution by forced thought; but they rather arise like a blinking spark on a sudden moment.

However there are some tricks and techniques, which can help you along solving designing problems, or starting up a design when you have no idea to do what. In this article we’ll look to some interesting designing techniques that can help you in your Graphic or Product Design, and I’ll add a few tricks I use by my own. Designing itself can be very intuitive, an I rather want it to be so, but when having an Artist Block, Creativity Techniques come in very handy!

Maybe you have seen it, recently a new wallpaper was added in my gallery, with the theme love. In this tutorial you are going to make this beautiful wallpaper, using Photoshop. The outcome will be more or less as the image you can see hereunder. (click for original size).

The render was made in a 3d application, but this tutorial will stick to the parts that were done in photoshop. This tutorial will be done in the ‘underlaying-layers-method’, which means that the tutorial will start with the bottom layer of the document as the first step and will end with the top layer. So let’s start!

Welcome on m-sign.nl, and in this tutorial we are going to make a presentation background using some textures. Textures we can find on internet. Maybe you have read this great article on m-sign.nl about textures that can be found on the internet. Let’s make use of the resources we can find and make a beautiful presentation background. The software that was used in making this tutorial was Photoshop CS3.

Texture & HDRI Sites Compared:

As a 2d and/or 3d artist, it is assumable that you use a wide range of resources. We are talking here about shapes, textures, brushes, and HDRI Maps. You can use textures from pictures that were taken by your own, or textures from dvd’s you can buy but many use the internet. Yep, that’s right, the internet. But where do we find them?. Here we will look up a few of those sites, that are providing HDRI-maps ore textures, and a short description of each site is given. First, for who textures are relatively new, textures and HDRI-Maps are explained in short. On the bottom a short list of all websites is shown.

Recently a new wallpaper was made, also inspired by a tutorial someone posted here in the comments, and I added it to my gallery. It was also based on a song from Delirious, called Love will find a way. The lyrics are posted below. Well, my conclusion is short, but I think that love, love for your beloved but also love for your neighbours, is very important for everyone. You can find this new artwork in my portfolio.

This was a question I asked myself for a long time, since creating dotted lines in Illustrator was easily possible, but how to do dotted lines in Photoshop? And what can I do more in photoshop with dots? The version of Photoshop that was used here was Photoshop CS3.

Level: Beginner

In this short tutorial you’ll discover how you can make a Perfum Bottle in Solidworks and Render it in Blender (2.48a). Basic knowledge of Blender and Solidworks is recommended. Solidworks 2008 SP2.1 and Blender 2.48a were used for this tutorial.

Level: Intermediate

The first part describes the modelling. If you don’t have solidworks, you can try to model it using your program of choiche, or take any other random model and go to the second part, which will tell you how to set up the materials. Models are also available as download. This tutorial also explains how to export models from Solidworks to Blender.