Are you about to take your first steps into creating and printing a book cover? Or perhaps you’ve already created covers for ebooks and want to transition to printed media? I’ve put together some practical advice to help you get the best results from your printed designs. This article assumes you are using Photoshop for your cover creation, but the basic concepts will hold true for whatever software you decide to use.
Category: tutorials
Animation Tutorial for Poser over on Renderosity
Renderosity are currently offering a series of useful tutorials for Poser – all for free! Their latest is all about animation. Click on the image to go through to the tutorials page on Renderosity.
FREE Poser Webinar for Beginners
GETTING STARTED IN 3D WITH POSER Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 11:00AM PST Interested in learning 3D but don’t know where to start? Poser is the easy answer. Join Steve Cooper, Poser product manager, in this 1-hour webinar for beginners. Don’t know a wireframe from a keyframe? Steve will cover the basics to give you…
Free Manga Studio Webinar – 5th February
Smith Micro are hosting a FREE Manga Studio Webinar – What’s New in Manga Studio 5. Presented By: Doug Hills, comic book artist Date: Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Time: 3:00PM PST
Using Photoshop’s Overlay mode to Enhance Skin
Here’s a quick video I did to demonstrate some cool skin effects you can achieve with Photoshop’s ‘Overlay’ blending mode.
Free Terragen Conference tomorrow!
There’s a FREE TERRALIVE Terragen conference on Saturday 5th of January at 20:00 GMT London (tommorow). So if you are a Terragen 2 user, just use this link to gain entrance into this webinar. The main conference is being held 18th – 20th January – more details on the 3D Art Direct website here.
Poser Lights 2: HDR Lighting
Here’s my latest collection of tips, this time on HDR lighting in Poser. Topics covered: Adding HDR Lights Tweaking HDR Lights Adjusting brightness on HDR Lights
Poser Lighting Part 1
Here’s a lighting tutorial for Poser using just a single spotlight. Topics Covered: Creating a Spotlight Adding Soft shadows Attenuation Volumetric Lights and Fog
Postwork Hints and Tips
What you do to your render when it comes out of the render engine may be what sets your image apart from all the rest. It’s where you define your style. Take command of your post-processing tools and make it pop! This is a selection of hints and tips for using Photoshop to edit your images….
Dynamic Cloth in Poser
Here’s a quick-start guide for setting up dynamic cloth in Poser. It covers clothifying objects, and how to drape them over other objects.
3D Fantasy Art 