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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.

35 Comments

  1. steve said on — November 6, 2009 @ 5:47 pm

    WOW !

    No video is playing but I got audio…..

  2. Chris Armstrong said on — November 6, 2009 @ 6:45 pm

    Hey. Lovely tutorial; it’s what I’ve come to expect from you! Fab. I was thinking it could be possible to make the image of the girl a 3D postcard and not use the layer mask – just position the lights around her, but I now see how that might not work.
    Good idea though?
    thanks!
    Chris

  3. LQ said on — November 7, 2009 @ 12:17 am

    very very cool!

  4. Del said on — November 7, 2009 @ 5:30 am

    Great effect Cory !!

  5. Stefan Klein said on — November 7, 2009 @ 6:29 am

    Great Tutorial.
    BTW., Corey, your last tutorial “Reverse restoration” is not working! The movie shows “3 D background effects” instead of “Reverse restoration”!

  6. Stefan Klein said on — November 7, 2009 @ 6:33 am

    PS.: “Reverse restoration” sows the right movie, if you select it on the right side under “popular”, but not if you select it from within the selection on the left side (the big preview window)

  7. Juan Pablo said on — November 7, 2009 @ 7:04 am

    Muchas Gracias por este excepcional tutorial, siempre visito tu pagina y me parece realmente genial, espero sigas asi para que cada dia podamos aprender mas y mas con las cosas tan bonitas que haces, un saludo desde españa, espero entiendas este mensaje jaja !!!!!

  8. Simon Ramsey said on — November 7, 2009 @ 7:23 am

    Great tutorial Corey!

    please could u show us how to do nested 3D objects to create logos like the sony ericsson ball.

    also was wondering if there is anyway of adding more native shapes to the 3D menu?

    Thankyou :o )

  9. ledriver said on — November 7, 2009 @ 2:26 pm

    Very cool Corey

    I dont see the tool 3D in my picture, what the option to see it, I just see it on the tool bar at the left.

    Thanks!

  10. atifqureshi said on — November 8, 2009 @ 2:04 am

    http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/how-to-create-a-chilling-photo-manipulation-in-photoshop/

    please make this for us

  11. IZH said on — November 8, 2009 @ 1:50 pm

    Wow Dude
    Really awesome
    am sticking with ur Tuts
    they are da best
    Cheers mate

  12. Taylor said on — November 9, 2009 @ 12:35 pm

    Great job with the tutorial

    i was having some trouble with the 3D because of not having the X and Y axis so i was unable finish, do you think you could help me out with finding it.

    Thanks

  13. queefer said on — November 9, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

    lol you said one hundred “pickels” per square inch no pixels

  14. fjellrev said on — November 12, 2009 @ 3:56 pm

    Hey! u got some great turtorials! I like the one with 3D spiral and 3D ball. http://www.planetphotoshop.com/3d-design.html that one. Is it a way to make the text in the spiral? not under it, or over it?

  15. nicole said on — November 13, 2009 @ 12:58 pm

    i did it but i did more mad it diffrent thax it was cool

  16. cristian said on — November 13, 2009 @ 8:45 pm

    hello good tutorial but I have a problem I get the tool from the left, up, blue, red and green, if you can help me to activate it please thanks (google traductor) :)

  17. Matthew said on — November 13, 2009 @ 9:52 pm

    hey how do you get that 3d tool device in the upper left hand corner

  18. Mike Roy said on — November 14, 2009 @ 12:01 am

    just want to say thank you !

    i love your work, and you are very interesting to listen all the time..

    God, i wish i could pick your brain..you are a real genius… my Photoshop skills skyrocks since two years because of you.. I never miss one of your video..especially on NAPP

    THANKS!

  19. jim said on — November 16, 2009 @ 5:14 pm

    Pretty cool!

  20. Marianne said on — November 22, 2009 @ 4:03 pm

    A very nice tutorial – I have just one problem after downloading the trial version of Photoshop CS4 extended ( which I will certainly buy ) using the 3D tool.

    The coloured arrows you use to scale the 3D object are not present in the working area and saving the texture is not generating an “individual” file.
    Where do I have to change the settings?

  21. Luke said on — November 28, 2009 @ 9:50 pm

    For the 3D widget go to Photoshop > Preferences > Performance (Mac OS) or Edit > Preferences > Performance (Windows). on the right hand side it has “GPU settings” it says enable OpenGL drawings tick it and you should be able to get the widget

  22. dean said on — December 5, 2009 @ 10:09 am

    great tut, sadly i only have standard cs4. is there anyway to get an effect like this without the 3d extras

  23. Jan Jílek said on — December 8, 2009 @ 3:53 pm

    That’s cool man! Love it!

  24. Leprakawn said on — December 15, 2009 @ 6:19 pm

    Corey:

    Thank you for this wonderful information! I hope to achieve great work of at least 50% to what you can do!

  25. Dyan said on — January 28, 2010 @ 1:44 pm

    You are so cool. Thank you for the tutorial.

  26. Jonathan said on — February 18, 2010 @ 11:46 pm

    Very nice effects. Absolutely stunning. Thanks so much for putting this up!

  27. raihan said on — March 11, 2010 @ 11:49 am

    wow very cool tut,tnks Corey

  28. Frank said on — April 4, 2010 @ 12:45 am

    wow amazing tutorial :D
    but is it ps cs3?

  29. Charlie said on — April 11, 2010 @ 1:45 am

    This is a very cool .
    I love your tutorials

  30. Kate said on — June 26, 2010 @ 9:14 pm

    I have a question. When i want to drag down the cylinder for it to be smaller- it dont show the axis widget. I have window 7. Not a mac. how can i drag it down?
    Please reply. Thanks. {;

  31. HABIL said on — August 13, 2010 @ 5:10 pm

    how did u create a duplicate of the 3D at the end.

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  33. J Clemmerson said on — October 25, 2010 @ 2:50 pm

    You ae something else Corey! What a delightful tutorial! Thank you for applying yourself to excellence in using Photoshop so you can teach us.

  34. Gene said on — May 18, 2011 @ 11:51 am

    Love it, but have a question. How can I apply this effect to a disc shape?

  35. CoreyE said on — November 8, 2011 @ 5:58 am

    If you dont have access to the widget to create a more disc like shape with your 3D shape, simply select “scale the 3D shape” and lower the size of the “z” scale box. something around 0.26 or more.

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