The Homer Simpson Style
Thursday, 17. July 2008 by Sven
News

Yep, the real homer is alive. I’m not sure if this was created in photoshop but it’s still a nice transformation. You can achieve an effect like this one using the smudge and transformation tools of photoshop. You can watch the video of transforming a guy to homer simpson right here: [more] »

A Warm Place | More fire
Saturday, 26. April 2008 by Sven
Photoshop

With the alpha channel we gain control over the opacity information of an object, so we can make it transparent. We can also paint in the the alpha channel to ‘form’ a selection to our liking. We use the alpha channel in the same way as in the icecube video but this time we delete the black background of a flame image.
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Leaves in Photoshop Tutorial Video
Wednesday, 23. April 2008 by Sven
Photoshop

Today we use the vector tools in photoshop to create the shape of a leaf. We then convert the shape into a rasterized image to add shadows and highlights with color and dodge-tool. Attached you find the original psd of this work. Have fun.
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Glossy Style Video
Monday, 21. April 2008 by Sven
Photoshop

Glossy buttons and logos are very popular these days. With the vector tools in photoshop you can create some nice shapes that you can even scale up for print if you need to. [more] »

Transparent Masking | Icecubes
Saturday, 19. April 2008 by Sven
Photoshop

Sometimes it’s really difficult to make an object, like a glass of water or an icecube, appear transparent like in the real world. Sure, we can use the layer opacity in photoshop to make layers transparent.

But what if we just want to erase some small areas of an image or what about semi-transparent objects with a background shining through? Can we [more] »

Screenfrog.com online again
Thursday, 17. April 2008 by Sven
News

Screenfrog.com is now back online again after it’s little break. As you might have noticed the site has changed quite a bit. I have upgraded wordpress to 2.5 and it runs pretty smooth so far. The site also has a new theme. Not all videos are back online, but I’m working on it. There are tons of new stuff coming pretty soon, so stay tuned.

Custom Vector Splashes
Thursday, 17. April 2008 by Sven
Photoshop

It’s pretty easy to create cutom splashes for you photoshop artwork. Grap a piece of paper, some printer ink and let the fun begin.
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paint.net and vector files?
Monday, 7. January 2008 by Sven
Paint.net

Some people asked me if it is possible to open up, edit, create vector based shapes and files in paint.net. The answer is: paint.net is a bitmap based graphics program so you [more] »

Scotch tape
Sunday, 23. September 2007 by Sven
Photoshop

Let’s create scotch tape in photoshop. Make use of the vector and masking tools. Do you have your own technique on how you create scotch tape? Let us know and post your results. :-)
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Image Compilation
Tuesday, 18. September 2007 by Sven
Paint.net

Let’s have some fun with transparency and gradients. In this video course I will show you how you can blend your images to create a nice compostion.
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