Illustrator Drawing: Art tools

Special thanks to Ainsley Bevis for sending in this great Adobe Illustrator tutorial! She covers a number of good techniques good for beginner to intermediate Illustrator users. Ainsley is from BloomWebDesign.net ... and writes . . .

In this tutorial, I'll teach you how to design vector illustrations of Art Equipment in Adobe Illustrator. You can see the finished piece in this enlargement

Floating Clothes with Photoshop

Here's another good tutorial from Princess Libra, for a very popular technique in clothing marketing -- the "invisible" person ... remove the human model from the clothes .... the Princess writes :

The way to learn the Clone Stamp tool (as well as adding a virtual drop shadow) is to create an invisible man or woman. We can transform an ordinary portrait or action shot to make the person disappear, leaving floating clothes around a space. Adding shadowed wrinkles also adds realism.

Preview of Final Results

 

Floating Clothes with Photoshop

Here's another good tutorial from Princess Libra, for a very popular technique in clothing marketing -- the "invisible" person ... remove the human model from the clothes .... the Princess writes :

The way to learn the Clone Stamp tool (as well as adding a virtual drop shadow) is to create an invisible man or woman. We can transform an ordinary portrait or action shot to make the person disappear, leaving floating clothes around a space. Adding shadowed wrinkles also adds realism.

Preview of Final Results

 

Lightroom 3 Editing Essentials

Scott Kelby shows you how to develop your photos in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3, including setting white balance, seeing befores and afters, and applying changes made to one photo to other photos. Sample Chapter is provided courtesy of New Riders

Also see:   Real World Digital Photography, 3rd Edition, by Katrin Eismann, Sean Duggan, and Tim Grey

 Real World Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers by Conrad Chavez

This free chapter is from Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 Book for Digital Photographers

http://www.graphic-design.com/photoshop/tutorial/lightroom-3-editing-essentials

Photoshop CS5 Types and Shapes

Create an Ad Using Adobe -- Using just the basic Photoshop software, Rafael Concepcion shows how you can manipulate the shapes and text in your designs to produce pleasing and compelling results. Learn these techniques and incorporate them into your Photoshop toolbox. 

Also see:   Real World Digital Photography, 3rd Edition, by Katrin Eismann, Sean Duggan, and Tim Grey

 Real World Adobe Photoshop CS5 for Photographers by Conrad Chavez

This free chapter is from Understanding Adobe Photoshop CS5: The Essential Techniques for Imaging Professionals