Archive for the 'Photoshop' Category

Recent Updates on my site.

Posted in Art and Animation, Photoshop on November 7th, 2008 by burtabreu

Well…. six months after being laid off I am still looking for steady work. I was riding high for a while, back to school, graduated, my first art job, then laid off. I’ve been surviving on various odd jobs and bits of freelance.

I have been working on my site a bit so if you have a chance to visit please do.

Stormvisions

Today I added two items which may be of interest …

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Free Photoshop Brush

Posted in Art and Animation, Photoshop on August 22nd, 2008 by burtabreu

I made another small pack of brushes -not my favorite but hopefully some will find it useful.

You can get it on this page and see what brushes are included in the set …

http://stormvisions.com/pages/freebies/photoshop.php

and here is a small sample texture to show some painting done with the brushes -click to see another, larger, sample.

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Free Photoshop Brushes: Rusty Robot

Posted in Art and Animation, Photoshop on July 24th, 2008 by burtabreu

I’ve added another small collection of brushes. Click on the image to open the downloads page in a new window and see more preview images.

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Comic Books for the Masses?

Posted in Art and Animation, Flash, Photoshop on June 27th, 2008 by burtabreu

I like to draw and have often thought of creating a comic book. My character skills are still a bit underdeveloped and getting a consistent result from frame to frame takes a lot of time. Using Flash as a way to build reusable characters to pose and render out as static comics (or with some animation like moving clouds, exploding panels etc) has been on my mind. I imagine the standard library building techniques would be great for this and once built, could speed up the process - what do you think?

Ryan Simmons at CartoonSolutions, who I interviewed last year, has created a series of Comic Book Products. These include comic book page templates, action sounds, word and thought balloons. All of these can be used with the background, prop and character packs.

All the products are pretty inexpensive so I decided to put together a quick page. Here is what I did in about one hour (click to see a larger version) …

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More Free Brushes - Stone Troll

Posted in Art and Animation, HodgePodge, Photoshop on June 24th, 2008 by burtabreu

I created another small collection of ’stone’ Photoshop brushes which you may want to check out.

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Free Photoshop Brushes

Posted in Art and Animation, HodgePodge, Photoshop on June 15th, 2008 by burtabreu

I added another small collection of free Photoshop brushes. You can paint with them, use them to cut through layers to expose different textures and use layers styles to generate effects like this quickie texture I did.

I added brush previews to the page so that you can see what is included in each pack before downloading.

Check them out here.

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Wallpaper Madness

Posted in Art and Animation, HodgePodge, Photoshop on June 13th, 2008 by burtabreu

I decided to try my hand at a few desktop wallpapers. Not sure how good -or bad- they are. My aging monitor seems a bit off -stuff that looks good to me seems to be too dark, too light or too saturated to other people; can’t figure it out. It’s also possible I screwed up the color space settings I guess.

You can get them here.

Feedback appreciated.

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Photoshop Tutorials

Posted in Art and Animation, Photoshop on May 28th, 2008 by burtabreu

I started creating two beginner level Photoshop tutorials aimed at texture art. If that is something that interests you check them out.

Creating Cracks

Using the Displace Filter

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