Manip Academy 1: Depth in the scenery by Wesley-Souza, journal
Manip Academy 1: Depth in the scenery
Welcome to Manip Academy 2.0!
What is it about?
Manip Academy is about learning and sharing! Much like in a real school, the idea of this project is to teach you valuable Photoshop tricks on a regular basis.
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Depth effect
When you create a scene and it has details in the background, it is very important you remember to keep the depth, in this way you will get a more realistic result. The details in the foreground will have more contrast in comparison to the details on the background, then the scene in the background will
Manip Academy #9 : Adding realistic highlights by Rowye, journal
Manip Academy #9 : Adding realistic highlights
So you're looking to have a dramatic light effect in your work and aren't sure how to go about it... In Photoshop there are always many ways to reach your goal, today we're going to focus on adding highlights by using the Color Dodge layer mode.
This is a fairly easy effect to produce realistic light hitting a surface. This method works best when you're working on mid/low range levels and with elements that don't have extreme contrast. It does very well when you have a shaded element and want strong highlights but might not work in other circumstances.
If you want to practice with this same tent, feel free to download this PSD (tree stock a
Pixel Art Week
Hi. I'm Nuperjo and today I'd like to share with you what I know about pixel art shading. There are multiple ways to shade your pixel art; from cell shading to dithering to anti-aliasing. Each of these methods could take up a whole tutorial on their own, but today we're just going to cover the basics of each one. So without further ado, let's get started.
Style 1: Cell Shading
Probably one of the most popular styles of shading on the internet, cell shading is used in pixel art as well. Cell shading is done by placing patches of a darker color in areas that need to be shaded. In the example below you can see how I've marked o