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Diamond Plating

 

In this tutorial Corey demonstrates the powerful integration between Photoshop and Illustrator to create a realistic diamond plate effect.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

23 Comments

  1. sharpless said on — April 15, 2010 @ 12:02 pm

    Very nice, btw first comment

  2. Andrei G. said on — April 15, 2010 @ 2:05 pm

    Brilliant, Corey! Thank you for this, it was very enlightening. I wasn’t aware of Illustrator’s transform capabilities. This will make me look into it some more. Thanks!

  3. Kole said on — April 15, 2010 @ 2:34 pm

    nice as always ;)

  4. marino said on — April 15, 2010 @ 8:14 pm

    One more hit…….very nice Corey.You should teach us more Illustrator stuff!!!!!!!!!

  5. Tsuri said on — April 15, 2010 @ 9:49 pm

    Cool.
    When do we learn Cs5 (Photoshop)?

  6. Jack said on — April 15, 2010 @ 9:50 pm

    I Dont Know?

  7. Tsuri said on — April 15, 2010 @ 9:52 pm

    That was *COOL* but when do we learn Photoshop Cs5?

  8. Rikard said on — April 16, 2010 @ 2:31 am

    @marino Now that would be nice but more accurate for a sight called “Planet Illustrator”… :-)

  9. aleqs said on — April 17, 2010 @ 12:00 pm

    nice!!!
    from Laos!!

  10. Celeste said on — April 19, 2010 @ 10:03 am

    Nice Corey! Love the Illustrator and Photoshop combo

  11. tatt said on — April 20, 2010 @ 7:59 am

    Thank you very much corey! Really appreciate it!

  12. Caleb said on — April 20, 2010 @ 11:55 am

    I don’t get something. When I open illustrator I get a huge screen and the scroll things are really small what do i do?

  13. elizabeth said on — April 20, 2010 @ 2:04 pm

    that was a fantastic tut, I love illustrator, but I am not as well versed in it as I would like to be. I saw you yesterday on the NAPP webinar and really enjoyed that class. thanks for the inspiration.

  14. opu said on — April 21, 2010 @ 10:38 am

    nice tutorial see written tutorial here
    http://nextbarisal.com/english/graphic_design.php

  15. Isaac said on — April 25, 2010 @ 11:19 am

    Very Usefull
    Thanks.

  16. Ken Toney said on — April 29, 2010 @ 9:47 pm

    You are a wealth of knowledge, man.

  17. Seyi said on — May 1, 2010 @ 6:05 pm

    Wow.Connor is SOOO such a dick-head,being rude and all…

    Corey,awesome job,as usual…

  18. PsdDude said on — May 7, 2010 @ 2:29 am

    Really nice tutorial!

  19. Tony V said on — May 7, 2010 @ 12:31 pm

    Great example of integration between the two apps and how to leverage the best features of each for a given task. Would love to see more examples of this in the future. Thanks so much!

  20. Debbi said on — May 7, 2010 @ 9:32 pm

    Wish I could see this on my ipad

  21. Ben Sussman said on — May 9, 2010 @ 8:50 pm

    Thanks a lot Corey. I had to watch this tutorial and learn that Illustrator transform trick so that instead of doing all my household chores on Sunday I wasted 3 hours futzing around with this and making all kinds of goofy designs with it. Thanks!

  22. ajith.b, said on — May 16, 2010 @ 7:08 am

    Brilliant, Corey! Thank you for this, it was very enlightening. I wasn’t aware of Illustrator’s transform capabilities. This will make me look into it some more.You are a wealth of knowledge, man. Thanks!

    From,
    Kerala

  23. Jordi Araus said on — July 28, 2010 @ 8:04 am

    thank you very much, their tutorials are the best of the Web.
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