FEATURING: • 20 Categories of FX • 500 Pre-Keyed High Definition Elements • Available in 2 Versions: 2K and 720p • 60 Minutes of After Effects Training • 20 Bonus Action Sound FX • Detailed Video Thumbnails • Over 90% Live Action Footage What is Action Essentials 2? Action Essentials 2 is a collection of stock footage elements for compositing. Ideal for visual effects & motion graphics Download:
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FEATURING: • 20 Categories of FX • 500 Pre-Keyed High Definition Elements • Available in 2 Versions: 2K and 720p • 60 Minutes of After Effects Training • 20 Bonus Action Sound FX • Detailed Video Thumbnails • Over 90% Live Action Footage What is Action Essentials 2? Action Essentials 2 is a collection of stock footage elements for compositing. Ideal for visual effects & motion graphics Download:
One light Workshop
A year of planning and 8 months of production later this thing is ready to get out into the public! Zack Arias have worked very hard to make this a product you are going to enjoy, learn from, and be inspired by. It is not a DVD about Zack Arias talking about himself. It is not a DVD with a dude in a studio going on and on and on about mountains of technical jargon. It isn’t a 2 hour commercial for his corporate sponsor. He doesn’t have a corporate sponsor. Zack Arias not here to sell you gear. In fact, he’ll probably talk you out of buying some gear at some point. Is off camera flash intimidating? Are you a bit fearful of it? It is Zack Arias’ goal to get you to drop all the fear and intimidation and get your flash off camera as God intended it to be used! Once the “light bulb” goes off in your head, you’ll see how simple it really can be and you will see your photography grow by leaps and bounds. You’ll have so much more confidence to take on any project that comes your way. In the nearly 4 hour long set of DVD’s Zack Arias go over philosophy, gear, exposure, modifiers, application of it all, how he compose images, what I’m looking for in a photo, what I like, what I don’t like, how things go really well, how things start to suck very quickly, how to interact with clients, how to get kicked out of not just one location but two locations, and, most importantly, how to deal with a group of drunk girls out on the street. Disc One :: Opening Thoughts :: Exposure Control :: Gear (lights, stands, triggers, etc.) :: Modifiers (Umbrellas, soft boxes, grids, etc.) :: Indoor shoot and then 2 location shoots with the same client. During these shoots he methodically talk through his thinking process and how he is finding exposure and warming up to shooting and working with clients. Disc Two :: Zack Arias pick up the pace on Disc Two and they do a lot of shooting. You’ll follow Zack Arias on shoots with 3 individuals and one band. He is more in “shooting” mode than “teaching” mode on this disc but he is still talking through the process of what he is looking for in the final photo, how he is going to get there, what type of light and modifier he need to get the job done, and how to work with situations when things just aren’t perfect. Zack Arias end the DVD with some information about his workflow in Lightroom. “I’m not a “workflow” teacher. I have a system that works for me and I’m always improving it. Finally, the montage and credits are pretty cool. Stick around for those.” Download
Recreating solar eclipse
Here is one more tutorial about creating space landscape. It is not so difficult but very useful. I’ll teach you how to recreate solar eclipse in space.
So, let’s begin to recreate it! Set foreground color as #500000 and background color as black. After that apply Filter > Render > Clouds to our canvas.
To change the background color at the bottom of the picture apply Quick Mask Mode with gradient as below:
Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area.
Change color of selected area with Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation with similar settings to these:
See the difference now?
Ok, move further. Remove the selection with Select > Deselect, after that create a new layer and fill it with black color. Apply Filter > Noise > Add Noise to this layer.
Change layer style to screen and use Image > Adjustment > Levels with next presets:
Now we have picture as below:
Ok, now select the Eraser Tool and a soft round brush and make a little clear work to get the result as on my picture below.
Time to recreate the solar eclipse. In the beginning try to find some appropriate texture of magmawhat we will use for the sun recreating. Feel free to use your own textures also. Open up this picture and copy to our main canvas.
Then get out the Elliptical Marquee Tool to create round selection as shown on the picture below. Invert selection with Ctrl+Shift+I and use Delete to clear selected area.
Remove selection with Ctrl+D and duplicate current layer using Ctrl+J. Ok, move to original lower layer and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:
Your result should be next:
Ok, apply Color Overlay layer style to this layer.
Use the Smudge Tool to create sunlight beams.
Ok, now move to copied upper layer again and start to process it. In the beginning select it withSelect > Load Selection and after that apply Filter > Distort > Spherize. Use next parameters for this filter.
Remove the selection. See the result below.
Then apply Inner Shadow, Outer Glow, Inner Glow, Color Overlay layer styles to this layer.
Looks better than before, don’t you think? Move to the next step. Create a new layer and use theElliptical Marquee Tool to create round selection, fill it with black color.
Deselect this layer with Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with next presets:
Your image should look as mine:
Ok, and the last one step that you need to do is to make optical lens flare. For this effect create a new one layer and will it with black color. Change layer mode for this layer to Screen and applyFilter > Render > Lens Flare:
Looks cool as for me!
We are done for now! Hope you have the same good result! Don’t be afraid to experiment and you will get the best results!
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Professional Advertisement
Here is new one tutorial for you how to make professional advertisement poster, which a based on color contrasts.
So, let’s start! First of all make a new document with the resolution 500×500 pixels for this tutorial. Select some appropriate colors, for example colors of #144499, #1375C4 and drag a linear gradient.
After that, I would like to add some gradients to our background. Create a new layer, then select theElliptical Marquee Tool and make selection, then fill it with white to transparent gradient as on my picture below:
Make a new one selection and fill it with the same gradient. Your picture should look as mine:
Make a new one gradient more.
Ok, looks good, isn’t it? Then remove the selection with Ctrl+D and change layer mode to Overlay.
The next step what we need to do is mark the area where we will put our advertised object. Select theElliptical Marquee Tool, make a rounded selection, and then fill it with color of #00387f on the new layer.
Deselect chosen area with Select > Deselect (or press Ctrl+D) and apply Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with similar settings to these:
You can see the result below:
Now get the Rectangular Marquee Tool (Feather: 5 px), make a new selection as on my picture below and press Delete to clear selected area.
Remove the selection with Ctrl+D, after that create a new layer, select the Polygonal Lasso Tooland make a new selection, then fill it with white color. Your image should look as mine:
Remove selection using Ctrl+D and apply Filter > Blur > Motion Blur:
Now we have something like this:
Then apply another one Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur:
See the difference now:
Ok, now set opacity up to 70% for this layer. Move to the next step. Now we need to find some appropriate picture, for example picture of iPod Nano, to bring it on the canvas. This picture must be contrast to blue color object, for example red. Use Google Images to find this picture or feel free touse mine. Then open it and use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to select the iPod on the picture. Then press Ctrl+C to copy selected part of image. Go back to our main document and press Ctrl+V to paste copied part of image in it. After that reduce it a little bit to give the same size as on my picture:
Now comes the important part, we need to make reflection for iPod. For creating this effect duplicate layer with iPod, flip it vertical with Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical and place it like on the image below.
We have some trouble with right earphone. Its reflection looks not so right. Ok, use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to fix this problem. Make the selection of this earphone and move it down as on print screen:
Looks better now as for me! Now set opacity up to 35% for this layer.
Use Quick Mask to hide reflection from the object on the floor progressively. Enter Quick Mask Mode, then get the Gradient Tool and make red to transparent gradient as on my picture below:
Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area.
Press Delete to clear image into the area and press Ctrl+D to deselect area.
Ok, now we have so realistic view reflection. Hope you have the same result. Move to the next step. I would like to add some design elements to the background. For this you can use my brushes. Also you can use your own brushes if you want. Select the white color and make a couple of print using the Brush Tool.
After that get out the Custom Shape Tool and find some appropriate shape from the palette:
Drag it onto your canvas like I’ve done in the below screenshot. Use Ctrl+T to rotate it.
Add a few shapes more:
Ok, now go to the layer with iPod image and create a new one above, then get out the Elliptical Marquee Tool and create the rounded selection as on picture below. Fill this selection with white to transparent gradient. Now we have nice glare on the iPod.
After that go to the layer with iPod again and load it selection with Select > Load Selection, then press Ctrl+Shift+I to invert the selection. Then go back to the layer with white glare and pressDelete to clear selected area. Remove the selection with Ctrl+D.
To finish off the advertisement poster I would like to add some inscription. Get out the Horizontal Type Tool (just the regular one) and write out something like ‘FEEL THE SOUND’ with white color.
In the above image I’ve used a font called Academy (30 pt, Crisp), which is sadly a commercial font. Feel free to use another font or buy or ‘get’ a nice font from somewhere. Duplicate this text layer and rasterize it with Layer > Rasterize > Type. After that apply Edit > Transform > Flip Vertical and move it down as on my screenshot:
Apply Quick Mask Mode again with gradient as below for this layer:
Then go back to Standard Mode. Now we have some selected area like on picture below. PressDelete to clear selected area.
Remove the selection with Ctrl+D and change opacity to 55%.
We are done for this tutorial. We made cool professional advertisement poster, which a based on contrasts. Looks cool! Hope you like this tutorial very much!
Shout to: photoshopstar.com