Creating the Right Skin TextureWritten by Ma. Carla Balattan
Making 3D imagery more lifelike/realistic in Photoshop need custom brushes that, as much as possible, conjure up skin texture like look of body hair, skin’s surface and it’s structure. Thanks to continuous creations of custom brushes collection in Adobe Photoshop, this purpose will be achieved. In article by Dave Nagel at http://photoshop.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=27156-0, a new series of custom brushes that focus on creation of textures to be used in 3D imagery has been launched. The first selections were several brushes designed to simulate appearance of body hair. Such brushes would definitely give imagery more lifelike in appearance. They have aptly termed it as texture brushes.Skin texture brushes may not only end with having body hair simulation but also with other elements that may create effect of other skin textures like smooth skin or rough skin that vary from that with pock marks, pimples, scars and blemishes. It is then, exciting to note further development and expansion in custom brushes focusing on creation of right skin texture for more realistic imagery in Photoshop. Twenty (20) new texture brushes, covering skin textures called NagelSeries 20 are launched for generating a variety of skin textures. There is a custom brush for somewhat smooth skin to skin with freckles, blemishes and pock marks. According to Nagel, collection is fairly large, consisting of some pretty complex elements that allow you to build up skin textures rather than simply applying them as you might a pattern overlay. This variety allows for much more skin texture modifications and is very helpful specially when you’re painting on UV maps. In site, Nagel gave several examples of skin textures created using custom brushes using several different colors and blending modes. The examples were built up with deep blue base and a secondary deep red layer. Lighter skin tones were then, painted over to achieve desired effect on each. To strengthen details, color and linear dodges were used in brushes. Color and linear burns are also added.
| | HOW TO CREATE 3D EFFECTS USING COREL 10Written by Blur Lorena
CorelDRAW’s tenth edition software, CorelDraw 10, is an upgraded combination of CorelDRAW and Corel Photo-Paint with new features and a unified interface. It has added features from Corel R.A.V.E., a vector based animation suite that introduced popular Micromedia Flash animations and movie format best suited for web content. It also offers more fonts, clip arts, option palettes, filters, toolbars, and a graphics powerhouse to help you create print and web graphics design. All tools used in this software are those tools you see in Photo-paint or R.A.V.E.CorelDRAW 10 allows user to import and export formats because it has a customizable interface. It offers controls for photo manipulation such as blemish removal, color corrections and red-eye reduction you can use in photo retouching. It provides additional controls even for complicated tasks such as mesh-based fills or extruding a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional object. If you want to make 3D image follow these steps. First, draw image using basic shapes and elements. Turn off strokes. Select an object, a part or component of image, and fill it with color. Click copy and open a new page in Corel Photo-Paint. A window will open and will ask some parameters. The color mode is set for 24-Bit RGB, Background is enabled and page will be larger than object. Click paste, then press CTRL+A and select “Center of page” to bring object to center of page.
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