Ice Age Acorn

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

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.

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Jesse said on — July 2, 2009 @ 4:04 pm

Sweet Tutorial Corey, as usual awesome! I love the “illustration” tutorials, too bad I do not have a tablet!
Mitja said on — July 2, 2009 @ 5:04 pm

wow, easy techniques with a great effect. stunning endresult
Joe said on — July 2, 2009 @ 9:04 pm

Wow very cool!, great tutorial keep them coming!
Walter D said on — July 2, 2009 @ 9:34 pm

Most excellent again. Your tallent is beyond the best of the best. I love how you can teach and make it so simple to understand. You creat something from nothing. Your brain must never sleep.
Carrie said on — July 2, 2009 @ 9:37 pm

Fantastic tutorial Corey! I really liked the technique where you used channels to enhance the texture, keep up the good work.
Micah said on — July 2, 2009 @ 11:58 pm

Hey Corey, been coming to your site for a LONGGGG time. I have a question for you. Every single time I watch your tutorials I look at your swatches palette and wonder where you got it. It’s like the ramp, but in swatches. I’ve looked through all the presets and haven’t found it so I was wondering if you or anybody else could point me to that particular swatch set. Thanks!
Silentman said on — July 3, 2009 @ 1:36 am

Thanks Corey, i hadn’t seen the “alpha channel” technique yet and will most definitely make it into my artwork from no on
Anita said on — July 3, 2009 @ 7:07 am

The movie is great and so is this tutorial!
Narendra.s.v said on — July 3, 2009 @ 12:40 pm

As always, its just awesome. Never thought this can be doing in PS
Donna said on — July 3, 2009 @ 1:20 pm

Wow-so many new techniques that can be applied to other pieces of art.
Now, if I can only remember all the steps involved!
Design4Fun said on — July 3, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

Great tut! Thanks for doing it, and for the shout-out.
cryx said on — July 3, 2009 @ 6:50 pm

lol, that is so cool. Just when you used the burn tool, it all looked 3D and the picture was on a whole new level. Thanks for the inspiration, you’re truly the best.
Luke said on — July 3, 2009 @ 9:03 pm

as i have said many times before… your are the photoshop God. all of your tutorials are brilliant and help me more than you can imagine.

thank you sooo much corey, keep it up
Kole said on — July 3, 2009 @ 9:27 pm

cool tutorial ,as usual awesome….good work…well done
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raziq said on — July 4, 2009 @ 3:43 am

simply your are father of photoshop man
TraumaHound said on — July 4, 2009 @ 4:48 pm

Warp Tool…Render Fibers…Liquify Tool…must upgrade my PS!

I love the little details that you put in that make a good image great like the alpha channel lighting tricks and the notches in the acorn cap. Sometimes the smallest details can make such a big difference.
TSuth said on — July 4, 2009 @ 10:47 pm

Off topic– will you ever make the video aspect of your site compatible with the iphone? That would be super cool, because you are a wealth of information and generosity!
Silentman said on — July 5, 2009 @ 5:56 am

Corey, whens the July Competition start ? i’ve been waiting anxiously for a post and haven’t seen one yet. I posted here as i don’t know where else to post the question. I know it’s only the 5th but hey it’s the 5th lol
Ben said on — July 6, 2009 @ 2:24 am

One of your best…amazing! Keep the “from scratch” stuff coming please.
Keith said on — July 7, 2009 @ 1:15 pm

Amazing! I love how you started with base shapes then warped instead of drawing out the finished shape. The liquify step took it to the next level!
Rafael Gomez said on — July 7, 2009 @ 6:33 pm

As always you make it look so easy. Because of you I am a warping, dodging & burning mo-fo! Thanks for making me a better designer.

-rafael
Phoebe said on — July 8, 2009 @ 1:06 pm

Great tutoiral!
Normally I use Gimp ( GNU image manipulation program) but I decided as a change to download the free trial of PS CS4
One question : On PS do you have a layer mode opetion named ‘ overlay’ its very much like the dodge and burn tool but on a new layer and you can alter it without touching the layer underneath?
Andrew Burke said on — July 9, 2009 @ 3:56 am

Bravo.. one of the best I’ve seen
Rashid said on — July 10, 2009 @ 2:17 am

Mind Blowing Corey !
Celeste said on — July 11, 2009 @ 7:43 pm

Awesome Cory….you are da PS god!! Love the alpha channel trick.
Eddie said on — July 15, 2009 @ 12:00 pm

simple but very effective … you definitely make learning photoshop an interesting adventure with your weekly tutorials
Mohammed said on — July 21, 2009 @ 5:33 am

Really you are my favourite designer
you are a genius
if you can teach me wich you know…………
Tara said on — July 21, 2009 @ 7:25 am

Thanks Corey, you are a genius!
HM Patel said on — July 21, 2009 @ 9:51 pm

Thanks Corey, you make it sound so simple.

HM Patel
Charles said on — July 28, 2009 @ 6:38 am

Great Tutorial Corey, It’s a shame I can’t download them like layers and photoshop from you and Scott, Mat and Dave.
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Yassir said on — July 31, 2009 @ 4:50 pm

Great Thank you very mush
Vu Tran said on — August 1, 2009 @ 4:54 pm

Cool, it s very useful
CJ said on — August 15, 2009 @ 12:07 am

Awesome Corey! very easy to understand thank you so much for helping us like this you are Awesome!
Thanks friend
CJ
General said on — August 15, 2009 @ 11:42 am

Very, very nice!
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Jean-Pierre Prieur said on — September 17, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

Great tuts!!!
nicole said on — October 5, 2009 @ 12:50 pm

cool love it
LQ said on — November 12, 2009 @ 4:14 am

Great tut. very nice
Marino said on — December 28, 2009 @ 7:12 pm

How do you come up with stuff like that???????OMG.
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