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New tutorial ideas-Reader's choice weekend

It looks like a dry well for tutorial ideas this weekend.  Anything you guys would like to see?

Captain America's Shield Tutorial

In today's tutorial, we will learn how to make a near photo-realistic reproduction of Captain America's iconic shield using a couple of tricks that aren't usually thought of when you're working in Photoshop.

This is one of the longest and most complete tutorials I've done, and it has tons of stuff packed in here.  It uses bump mapping, normal mapping, 3D material imports, image-based lighting ... the list goes on.

Nvidia Normal Map Filter installation and usage

Photoshop CS 6 upgrade

Well folks, it's official.  We have made the upgrade to Photoshop CS6 Extended at Saberune Design.  This means that from now on, our tutorials will be done within the CS6 workspace.

More Photoshop 3D - lightsaber

I've been doing my part stress testing the Photoshop CS 6 beta.  I've spent quite a bit of time on the 3D aspects of PS 6, trying to do increasingly complex projects.

Super Moon

Ok, this post is a little outside the scope of this blog.  I don't really do photography posts (mainly because I'm the exact opposite of a good photographer), but we were outside looking at the moon through my crappy 80 dollar telescope and I thought to myself "Self, what if you took your equally crappy 130 dollar wal-mart camera, held the aperture up to the eyepiece of the telescope and snapped a photo?"  Yea, I thought it was a silly idea, too, but guess what, it worked out averagely well.

Since I'm not a photographer and this is probably as close as I'll ever get to a telephoto lens shot, I was relatively pleased with the results and decided to share it with all of you.  Enjoy.