Monday, June 11, 2012

33 Digital Photoshop Painting Tutorials

33 Digital Photoshop Painting Tutorials

Digital painting is something that I always wanted to learn. While finding my way to a start, I came across many great online tutorials on it that I should share with everyone here. Take your time to go through them and maybe some of them can spark your interest in digital painting too. I will be trying out some of them and then post my results up here



How to Draw Manga
Very detailed explanations on methods to create a manga scene from the initial sketch all the way to final painting.
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Spicy Curry Brush
Digital painting process using brushes in Adobe Photoshop 7 with a pressure sensitive Wacom Intuos tablet.
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Digital Painting Tutorial
Detailed step-by-step guide for the creation of this masterpiece. Photoshop brushes used in the tutorial are available for download.
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Digital Painting Steps
A walkthough of one of Chris Arlidge’s digital painting done in Adobe Photoshop. General comments are provided on each step.
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Advanced Digital Painting Techniques
This covers the whole painting process, from sketch to finishing touches, and can be applied to either Photoshop painting or oil painting.
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Making Frodo
This is a walkthrough of how the creator made this realistic Frodo character from Lords of the Ring.
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Red Assassin Tutorial
Step-by-step walkthrough of how to create a beautiful red assassin.
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Painting a Landscape
Tutorial which will enable you to paint in Photoshop a basic landscape which could be thereafter detailed.
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Jim Zubkavich’s Tutorial
The step-by-step follows Jim’s process from loose sketch to finished art
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Making of Yuka
Creator created this stunning image by referencing a real photograph. Do check this out!
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Making of Fire Energy
Creator translates the fire energy to an image, and this came out, There isn’t any sketch, so he consider this a speed painting.
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Bioshock Videogame Painting
Creator explains how to use Photoshop and a Wacom Tablet to paint a character from the new videogame Bioshock.
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Wonder Woman Pin Up Painting
Use Photoshop and a Wacom Tablet to create a digital illustration of a voluptuous Wonder Woman pin up.
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Fly Away Digital Painting
Guide for fly away digital painting. I will say this is very useful for beginners.
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Making of the Photographer
Photographer, a war journalist picture in a cartoony look intending to be evocative and just a bit sad.
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Spider Harp
This picture represent a fantasy musician able to play harp on a spider web.
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Making of Transformer
Creator wants to create a scene filled with tension and drama, just like a still photographs from the film.
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Making of Lida
Creator want to interpret a new feeling of an old Chinese poem, and try to make it more fantasy, sci-fi and surreal.
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Making of Angel of War
Angel warrior. He is the solider of heaven to protect human from devil. And he obeys only GOD.
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Making of Dragon
In this tutorial we are going to color a dragon portrait.
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Digital Painting
Tutorial showing the steps to create this interesting manga-like painting.
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Hair Painting Tutorial
Neat tutorial showing how to paint a smooth hair.
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Digital Painting
This tutorial will show how to paint using almost 1 layer only.
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Painting a Car Digitally
Creator shows how he painted this car right from the start.
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RoseVine Lady
A detailed writeout of how the artist painted this magical scene.
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Min Hyo Rin Step by Step
Step by step guide on how to create this amazing painting.
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Pepper Portrait – Process
Artgerm sharing with everyone on how he created his very own style of digital painting.
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Pepper Breeze – Process
Another guide from Artgerm showing his processes in creating this piece of Pepper Breeze.
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Digital Painting Tutorial
Creator showing how to paint by referencing to several real photographs.
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Digital Painting Tutorial
This style of colouring resembles traditional painting because the brush strokes are still visible.
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CG Tutorial 1
Ashen Ray sharing with us on how she done her manga-style painting. This is a must-read!.
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CG Tutorial 2
Ashen Ray sharing with us on how she done her manga-style painting. This is a must-read!.
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Digital Painting Cloud
Step by step guide on how to build brushes and paint like the creator.
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

13 Easy And Powerful Website Building Tools To Create Your Free Site


 
This is one of the very best list of its kind where you can find about some best online website building tools available to create your free website. These free website building tools can help a lot to beginners who do not have technical knowledge but have interest in web design.  These website building tools can be very helpful for you when you want to get your work done. I hope all of you will like this list if you are office worker, designer, developer, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 13 Easy And Powerful Website Building Tools To Create Your Free Site. Just take a look at them and share your thoughts here.

GetShopped
You can create free website, pages, sell online, send newsletters, and blog online with GetShopped. This is perfect for any new or existing business that wants to sell products or services online. GetShopped integrates with Google Checkout, Paypal, Payment Express, and many other trusted payment processors. This will ensure secure payment processing for your clients.
Webnode
Webnode
Webnode allows visitors to create, design, develop and run powerful free websites and web application from start to finish. It was engineered for ease of use and extreme speed, it can effortlessly produce high-caliber professional web pages within minutes.
Jimdo
Jimdo
It’s really easy to create a free website with Jimdo: just sign-up, follow the link to your own Page, integrate pictures, videos and texts in seconds, change the design with a click, add as many pages as you want…and show your swifty JimdoFree-Page to your friends.
WebStarts
WebStarts
WebStarts is another great option to create a free website.  You can drag and drop photos, videos, text, and more. You can create a unique professional online presence. Choose from dozens of pre-designed layouts or make your own using free website builder.
350 pages
350-pages
350 pages is easy to use free website builder that can help you create a website and edit your pages from anywhere in the world at any time. Since 350pages is hosted on the safe, fast, and reliable web servers, you don’t need to download, install or configure anything. All you need is a web browser (IE 6/7, Firefox, or Safari) and an internet connection.
Wix
Wix - Create a free website,  Free MySpace layouts & Flash MySpace layouts
With Wix you can create a free website or make your free MySpace layouts and Flash MySpace layouts. It’s the simpler, faster, better way to build & design on the web.
Yola
Yola
Yola is absolutely dedicated to helping you build your free website quickly and effortlessly. They offer critically-acclaimed, easy-to-use tools and web hosting all for free. You can choose from over 100 customizable website templates to get the look you want and much more…
Google Sites
google sites
Google Sites is a free and easy way to create and share webpages. This is powerful enough for a company intranet, yet simple enough for a family website as well.
Moonfruit
Moonfruit
Weebly
weebly
Weebly is the easiest way to create a free website. From personal to professional sites, Weebly will enable you to spend your time on the most valuable part of your site, its content. You can create free website and free blogs.
doTemplate
doTemplate
doTemplate is a web template builder. It offers a range of website themes you can personalize online before downloading. You can use this easy template creator for free.
Edicy
edicy
Edicy is so easy to use you can build a site for your business or organization and have it live on the internet in a matter of minutes. All the tools are available online with no additional software required, just pick one of our beautifully made designs, enter your text, add your images and then publish your site to your own custom web address, it’s that simple.
Moogo

Creating your own website with Moogo is incredibly easy. Moogo offers you a simple way of creating your own easy-to-update website with style even if you have never created a website in your life before. Moogo is perfect for individuals, small businesses, clubs and organizations, sport teams, real estate…or making a website for your band or your pet.


10 Sleek and Professional Flash Image Gallery Tutorials



There probably is quite a lot of debate which is the better for creating an image slideshow or gallery, CSS or Flash? Each has its own advantages and everyone has their preference, but I am sure most would agree that Flash has a special feel of sleekness, style and professionalism. Flash does have an air of being technically difficult to develop, but with these ten easy to follow Flash Gallery and Slideshow Tutorials, you will be able to put your fears to rest, and create a beautiful and dynamic gallery.

Build a Dynamic Flash Gallery with Slider Control
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this tutorial, you'll create a sleek gallery, with a slider to browse the images, which displays all image files in a given directory. This tut will help you understand the concept of using classes to separate and structure your code, it will help in development .
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Mac Style PhotoFlip Gallery
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this easy to follow tutorial from Web Designer Wall, using Photoshop and Flash you will be shown how to design a cool photo gallery as seen on the AppleTV website and in many Mac applications (ie. iTune, iPhone). To complete this tutorial, you need Photoshop CS2+, Flash 8+, and a photoFlow component from Flashloaded.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Create a Dynamic Slideshow with ActionScript 3.0 and XML
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this tutorial you will learn how to create a dynamic slideshow using ActionScript 3.0 and how to take the images from a seperate xml file. The FLA file will be empty except for the path to your Document Class and also create a custom class that will act as the engine for the slideshow.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, XML and the Flickr API
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this tutorial you will learn how to create custom Flash Components using Actionscript 3.0, by creating an image gallery component were the thumbnails of various images will be shown, and the user will be able to click and enlarge that image, you will also learn how to use the Flickr api image search to pull selective images.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Create a Flash AS3 Slideshow with XML – The Tech Labs
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : This tutorial shows you how to create a simple slideshow using as3/flash and xml , with the xml file you will store the path to the slides and a description for each of it. This is an easy to follow tutorial that would be good for any novice.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Creating an XML Slideshow in Flash
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Description : In this advanced Flash tutorial you will make use of the MovieClipLoader Class, the Tween Class, the XML Class, and other ActionScript features such as the setInterval method, functions, loops, arrays, and conditionals. From this you will learn how to create an XML slideshow in Flash using ActionScript 2.0. All the contents of our slideshow will be controlled through an XML file so that you can update your images and their description without going back to your FLA, the XML file will also control the speed of the slideshow.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Papervision 3D Flash Gallery Tutorial
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this tutorial you’ll build a Flash Gallery using Papervison 3D. This tutorial will consist of several parts., together with the Papervision 3D library you’ll use Tweener for a better smooth animation and BulkLoader for a better image preloading.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Flash Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this advanced tutorial you will be shown how to create an image gallery, with a shrinking square transition.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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TV transition image slideshow
Flash Image Gallery Tutorial
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Description : In this tutorial you will learn how to create a slideshow, which has a flicker / fuzz / broken TV transition between the images. You will need to download the TV Fuzz Effect Plugin, get it here.
Source Files Available : Yes.
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Image slideshow from text file content
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Description : In this Flash actionscript 3.0 tutorial you will be making an image slideshow using an external text file, meaning you will have have a couple of images in jpg format, an external text file with information about location, filenames and how many image files you are handling.
Source Files Available : Yes.