Deke's Techniques 037: Creating Synthetic Wood Grain
In this week's technique, I show you how to create 100% synthetic wood grain using Smart Filters in Photoshop. All without harming so much as a single tree!
In this week's technique, I show you how to create 100% synthetic wood grain using Smart Filters in Photoshop. All without harming so much as a single tree!
This week, I show you how to merge multiple exposures of a single scene and wipe out all of the moving stuff (namely, the people) using the little-known image stacks.
Photoshop lets you assemble a handful of 12-megapixel photos into an utterly flawless 3 foot-wide panorama. Provided that you know what you're doing.
This week, I show you how to create a "talk show-style" curtain. Like the kind Johnny Carson used to walked through. Back when people watched TV.
This week, I show you how to take a basic 3D pie chart, split its meshes, color its slices, and otherwise make it a tangible slice of business-graphics reality.
This week, I show you how to take some basic spreadsheet data, graph it in Illustrator, and extrude that graph in lustrous 3D detail in Photoshop CS5 Extended.
This week, I show you how to create a seamlessly repeating tile pattern in Photoshop, which involves as many applications of the Offset filter as it requires leaps of logic.