Tutorials

Ice Age Acorn

Corey has a special extended tutorial on illustrating the Ice Age acorn. Continue Reading »

July 2nd, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (1)

Transformers, Part 2

In part two of this tutorial, Corey finishes the Transformers logo he began last week. Continue Reading »

June 24th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (10)

Transformers, Part 1

In this two-part tutorial, Corey begins creating the Transformers logo from this summer’s upcoming blockbuster. Continue Reading »

June 19th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (13)

Planet Works

Corey uses the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4 Extended to re-create the DreamWorks animated title. Continue Reading »

June 12th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (21)

Land of the Lost

This tutorial is a take off the title text from the new summer movie, Land of the Lost. Continue Reading »

June 5th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Text, Tutorials | Comments (24)

Realistic Balloon

This week Corey creates a realistic balloon against a blue sky all from scratch. Inspired by the Pixar’s new movie UP. Continue Reading »

May 29th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (23)

Terminator

This tutorial shows how to take a stock image of a human skull into Photoshop and create a terminator robot. Continue Reading »

May 22nd, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (20)

Angels and Demons

Corey’s summer movie series continues with this tutorial about recreating the title graphics of the new movie, Angels and Demons. Continue Reading »

May 15th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (17)

Star Trek Poster Effect

With this tutorial, Corey boldly tries to re-create the film poster of the new Star Trek movie, which is warping into theaters this Friday. Continue Reading »

May 8th, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (15)

X-Men Logo

With the summer movie season kicking off this Friday, Corey is using a blockbuster-inspired graphic for this week’s tutorial. Continue Reading »

May 1st, 2009 | Corey Barker | Effects, Tutorials | Comments (11)

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Photoshop Tutorials

Design Effects
Corey shows how to use the luminosity of an image to create a cool design effect and spice up your simple photos.
Stylized Comic Book Effect
Using this effect, you can transform anyone into a comic book character with a halftone, saturated look.
Text Shape Layers
Converting text into shapes allows you to distort the text as you like while retaining straight, clean edges.

Ice Age Acorn

Corey has a special extended tutorial on illustrating the Ice Age acorn.
Transformers, Part 2

In part two of this tutorial, Corey finishes the Transformers logo he began last week.
Transformers, Part 1

In this two-part tutorial, Corey begins creating the Transformers logo from this summer’s upcoming blockbuster.
Planet Works

Corey uses the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4 Extended to re-create the DreamWorks animated title.

Digital Video Solutions: Troubleshooting
Some common problems that can occur after upgrading your video-editing application may include a frozen screen, frozen cursor, flickering dialog, completely blank dialog, or a number of error messages.
Layers TV: Episode 94
Corey has a tutorial showing how to wrap a graphic around a 3D object in Adobe Illustrator. RC tries to clear up some of the confusion about using the Pen tool in Illustrator and Photoshop. You can download each episode by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes. var so = new SWFObject('http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/players/player.swf','mpl','500','300','7'); so.addParam('allowfullscreen','true'); // so.addVariable('type','rtmp'); so.addVariable('file','http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/switch/video/layers-tv-episode-94.mp4'); so.addVariable('plugins','hd-1'); so.addVariable('hd.file','http://media.kelbymediagroup.com/switch/video/layers-tv-episode-94-hd.mp4'); so.addVariable('hd.state','false'); so.addVariable('image','http://www.layersmagazine.com/images/layerstv-logo.jpg'); so.addVariable('height','300'); so.addVariable('width','500'); so.addVariable('autostart','false'); so.addVariable("backcolor","0x000000"); so.addVariable("frontcolor","0xF1F1F1"); so.addVariable("lightcolor","0xF88E21"); so.addVariable("quality","100"); so.write('player'); Thank you [...]
The Digital Camera: Compact-camera Shooter
I took most of the photographs in this article with my Canon PowerShot G10 compact camera to see if I could get good shots with a basic camera.
Using Adobe Exchange
Adobe Exchange is a free resource on the Adobe website for adding features to your Adobe applications.

In the same composition, use Select>Color Range…to select the high-lights of the base image. Be generous with the Fuzziness, as detail won’t be an issue. Copy the selection to a new layer (Command - J [PC: Ctrl - J]) and set its blend mode to Screen, which works kind of inversely from Multiply—blacks become invisible and whites are added. The result is a simple bloom or glow effect.