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Sleek Arcade-Style Logo

In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be creating a unique text effect that would suit an arcade website nicely. It’s a simple, glossy text effect that can be achieved easily by using mostly layer styles. 1. Document & Background Get started by making a new document in Photoshop – something sized around 1000 x 600 will be good for this. Fill the background with a dark color/gradient ( #2b2e2c & #1a1a1a ). Now, just for a little effect, create a new layer and put a few shapes or brushes onto your canvas, using the colors that you used for the gradient. Lower the opacity for this layer to around 20% or something like that. So now we have a nice home for our text. 2. Text Alright, now it’s time to start the text. Get out the Horizontal Type Tool (this is the normal text tool) and write something onto your canvas, using a relatively large font and a bright, fun color. The text setup that you can see in the above image: Font: NeoTech (commercial) Color: #b0cc00 S...

Create Your Own Poster

Would you like to make your own cool musical poster? Ok, now I will teach you how to do this. Ok, let’s start!  Firstly we’re going to create a new document in Photoshop sized 500×500 px, all the default settings. After making your new document, fill the background layer with black color. After that select the Horizontal Type Tool and place any text on all background as on my picture below. Use the color of #431a1a for this text: Now rotate the text 45 degrees CW using Edit > Transform >Rotate : After that set up the following font presets: Now we have something like this: Ok, time to find some appropriate picture to place it on our canvas. You can find it using Google search or feel free to use my picture . Copy this picture onto your canvas over the text layer (please don’t use images with small details or elements to make a good picture effect). After that press Ctrl+J to copy the layer, then hide the copy (click on the eye, which indicates laye...

>Sleek Arcade-Style Logo

> In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be creating a unique text effect that would suit an arcade website nicely. It’s a simple, glossy text effect that can be achieved easily by using mostly layer styles. 1. Document & Background Get started by making a new document in Photoshop – something sized around 1000 x 600 will be good for this. Fill the background with a dark color/gradient ( #2b2e2c & #1a1a1a ). Now, just for a little effect, create a new layer and put a few shapes or brushes onto your canvas, using the colors that you used for the gradient. Lower the opacity for this layer to around 20% or something like that. So now we have a nice home for our text. 2. Text Alright, now it’s time to start the text. Get out the Horizontal Type Tool (this is the normal text tool) and write something onto your canvas, using a relatively large font and a bright, fun color. The text setup that you can see in the above image: Font: NeoTech (commercial) Color: #b0cc00...

>Create Your Own Poster

> Would you like to make your own cool musical poster? Ok, now I will teach you how to do this. Ok, let’s start!  Firstly we’re going to create a new document in Photoshop sized 500×500 px, all the default settings. After making your new document, fill the background layer with black color. After that select the Horizontal Type Tool and place any text on all background as on my picture below. Use the color of #431a1a for this text: Now rotate the text 45 degrees CW using Edit > Transform >Rotate : After that set up the following font presets: Now we have something like this: Ok, time to find some appropriate picture to place it on our canvas. You can find it using Google search or feel free to use my picture . Copy this picture onto your canvas over the text layer (please don’t use images with small details or elements to make a good picture effect). After that press Ctrl+J to copy the layer, then hide the copy (click on the eye, which indicates layer visibility...

Modeling A Fork

I will explain how to model a fork. It's an easy tutorial and detailed with a lot of images.  1 . Start or reset your 3dsmax. Begin by creating a box in Top viewport. Go to Modify tab and change its parameter to: Length=50, Width=10, Height=5, and Length segs=7. Using Select And Move Tool, hold Shift and move this box to the right (X axis) to create a copy. Use Copy as clone method. As a Copy, we can change parameter for new box without changing original box. Use same size but with different Length Size, use 2. 2 . Select original box. Right click and choose Convert>Convert to Editable Poly. In Command Panel go to Modify tab. In Selection rollout, activate Vertex Selection. In Top viewport, select several vertices in the middle like image below. Then, using Select And Non-Uniform Scale tool click and drag along Y axis to scale down vertices. You will get more height segments in top and bottom part of the box. 3 . Change selection to Polygon. Select ...