In this tutorial I will teach you how you can bring life into a manican. Sometimes dolls or manicans may have the exact pose you need for a project, so I will show you how you can get a usable image to use. Read the rest of this tutorial »

In this tutorial I will walk you through the techniques I’ve used to make this photograph appear to be an old west photograph. Before we start, let’s identify exactly what makes a photograph appear to be from that time period. First of all, it should have an orange tint, while being monotone in color. Of course, old photographs often get damaged over time, so we will probably want to add some damage to our photograph as well. Finally, to give it the look that it is indeed a photograph, we’ll probably want to throw it on a background.

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In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a 3d pool table in minutes. Suprising, isn’t it? This tutorial will teach you basic colouring and may even assist you in creating that 3d flash game you’ve always wanted. Im kidding.

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In this tutorial, we’re going to step you through the process of creating a realistic looking CD from scratch. This is an image I’ve been making for years, and is surprisingly simple to make. 0

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In this tutorial, we’ll make a widescreen wallpaper.  The key to making wallpapers is to start out with a large widescreen canvas, the larger, the better.  The reason for that is you can always resize the image down to target smaller widescreen resolutions, and crop the image for standard aspect ratios.  In this particular wallpaper, we’re going to make rust seep through old, cracked concrete.  This is a style you’ll see used a lot in grunge and goth style pieces.  Here’s the end result we’ll be shooting for:

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Realistically, there are a lot of different ways someone could approach this.  In this tutorial, I’ll outline the way I would approach this technique.
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There have been several times when I’ve needed to combine a photo taken at one angle, with a photograph taken from a slightly different angle.  The complexity of coming up with an acceptable end result increases with the differences between the angles of both pictures, as well as the lighting (and the resulting shadow incompatibilities.)  In this example, we’re going to take a stained glass window from a cathedral’s interior, and integrate it into the exterior of a different cathedral.
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We will show you how to make Stainless Steel based text that looks shiny and realistic. The tutorial purposely takes a different step from normal text tutorials to show you how to make your text more appealing. Here is the final result:

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