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Second runner-up of the Jan 15th, 2009 Contest: Night Ride

 

By: Sara Lipary

I learned how to give a work of art motion and excitement. I applied the SciFi Text tutorial to make fire and some cool text. I learned how to manipulate my brushes better and add intresting color varations to different elements with gradients. Selecting the luminosity and defining a pattern are things I’d never tried before. I learned a great deal of information from these three tutorials and look forward to the next challenge.

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2 Comments

  1. Bob Murray said on — January 29, 2009 @ 10:56 am

    Pretty wild! I particulary like the gradients on the car. Nice going. If I might suggest, the NAPP site has a great tutorial by Darrell Heath called “Smoke Effects” and it’s at the following link – http://www.photoshopuser.com/members/?page=view&id=smoke-effects

  2. RT said on — February 3, 2009 @ 10:03 am

    Congrads!

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