December, 2013 | CreativePro Network

Create Reflections in Photoshop with Smart Objects

With Photoshop’s Smart Objects you can combine multiple layers into one, distort them, mask them, add adjustment layers, and most importantly, change the contents at a later date. And when you duplicate a Smart Object layer, any changes made in the original are reflected in the altered version as well. This tutorial is split into […]

Sculpt 3D Artwork With Gestures

Last year, I wrote a news item about Leap Motion Controller, a new input device that replaces the mouse and trackpad, and allows you to control your computer via gestures. Now, there’s an entire app store worth of programs that you can use with the Leap Motion. There, you can find apps like Freeform, a […]

Create Stunning Slideshows with FotoMagico

If you’re a Mac-using photographer looking for a way to showcase your work in professional quality slideshows, check out FotoMagico by Boinx Software. It offers the ability to combine still images, sound, and video, along with transitions, pan and zoom, and text effects. Finished results can be exported for web, iPad, iPhone, or a DVD. […]

Avengers Photoshop Tutorials

Hail, brothers! Good morrow, sisters! I hope this day doth find thee hale and hearty and merry! As I doth returned from yon eve’s viewing of Thor: the Dark World, and as mine hopes for divine salvation of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. doth e’er more wither, I find my spirits lifted by joyful thoughts toward […]

Getting Rid of Empty Lines in a Data Merge

We’ve talked quite a bit about InDesign’s Data Merge feature over the years, and I’m recording an in-depth title on the subject for lynda.com (should be out by spring). But one problem which often plagues hopeful data-mergers is the situation when sometimes a data field has some content and sometimes it doesn’t. For example, in […]

Weird and Wacky Holiday Stock Art

Ah, the joys of perusing holiday stock art. Endless catalogs of festive trees, sparkling stars, and jolly old St. Nicks. But occasionally, you’ll come across some things that leave you wondering just how much egg nog the artist or photographer had imbibed beforehand. That might explain some of the following bizarre images. Enjoy, and if […]

Yule Log 2.0

In any list of great holiday traditions, you’d have to include the Yule Log. Not the pagan ritual of immolating a hunk of some poor oak to mark the winter solstice. No, I mean the video version of said ritual, where folks flipped on a TV to fill a room with the ambiance of flickering […]

Redesigning Concert Tickets

Because they’re so familiar, the design of everyday things can become invisible. We just don’t notice good or bad design choices in the things we take for granted. For example, consider the humble concert ticket. You probably haven’t spent two seconds considering how ugly most of them are—if you even use paper tickets any more. […]