3D Keyboard Key Icon Using Photoshop CS 5 Extended

Hey guys.  Here's a new tutorial for you using Photoshop® CS 5 Extended.  In this video, we cover how to quickly create a 3D keyboard key using the 3D capabilities of CS5 Extended.

Enjoy!

Installing 3D Material Presets Using the Extension Manager

Hey folks, here's a quick tutorial showing you how to download and install free material sets available from Photoshop.com for you to use in your 3D projects in Photoshop CS 5 Extended.  Once installed, these materials will permanently be available for use in your projects.

Stay tuned.  An upcoming tutorial will be using some of these new materials.  Thanks for watching.

 

3D Rainbow Twisted Ring

Hey guys. I have a new Adobe® Photoshop® CS 5 Extended tutorial for you. While browsing the internet, I stumbled across an interesting design, and through some experimentation, was able to create my own version of it using a completely different technique.

Thanks for watching!

You can view the tutorial that inspired this video here ...
http://tutvid.com/category/tutorials/photoshop/page/5/

Share Your Work With Us

Hey folks, I realize I don't have a ton of tutorials up, yet, but if you've done anything using the techniques in my tutorials, I'd love to see your work!

It's always inspiring to throw something out there and see what amazing and creative pieces other people come up with when they combine your techniques with their own ideas.  So if you have used something you learned here in your own designs, please comment to this post and share a link with the world.

Thanks!

Polished Metal/Chrome Text Effect

Hey guys.  Sorry it's been so long since my last post.  It's been crazy busy around here the last couple of weeks.  I do have a new Photoshop® tutorial for you today, though.

In today's tutorial, we explore a quick and simple, yet effective technique to achieve a polished metal effect on font.  Give it a go and let me know what you think!

As always, thanks for watching my tutorials.

Using Smart Objects as a Multi-reference Tool

Hey, folks. I have another Adobe® Photoshop® tutorial for you, showcasing yet another capability of Smart Objects. This time, I show you how to set up multiple layers to reference a single object so that a single change can be populated many times throughout your document.

As always, thanks for watching.

Render created using 3D inside Photoshop along with previous tutorial material

Hey guys, no tutorial today, but I thought you might be interested in seeing a project I slapped together.  I had an hour to kill, so I played with .... Photoshop.  Imagine that.

I was messing around with the 3D in cs5 extended and I thought to myself "this would look pretty good with a little tread plate".  So, using the technique from one of the earlier tutorials, I generated a pattern and from that, created a normal map to tuck snugly in behind the diffuse.

Just an aside, this was done 100% inside Photoshop.  No outside modeling software was used.  Maybe that will be in an upcoming tutorial?

Anyway, here's the pic, showing that there are some practical applications to all these crazy tutorials I throw up on the blog.  Enjoy.