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1. Robofrog
   Meowza
   Half frog half robot. Her you will see how to show frog's mechanical skeleton. There are many tricks and techniques that graphics artists make during creating such works. I will show you the ways of creation such robofrog art with usage of the basic tools of Photoshop. You can do the same photomanipulation with the other animal or human.
   
2. Histogram Guide
   Stephen Kennedy
   Histograms give a very quick reference point from which you can tell a lot about your image, be this on your computer or a digital camera LCD display. Simply put – A histogram is a representation of the colours within your image. On the left there is pure black, on the right there is pure white; with every colour in the spectrum between. The vertical height of any column shows how many pixels of that exact colour there are in your image at each brightness setting.
   
3. In the Land of Faded Times
   Jean-Sebastien Monzani
   This photo is part of a series named In the Land of Faded Times. Inspired by movies and oriental culture, the goal is to create an appealing image that carries a mood and a storyline. Attention will be especially given to image quality and aesthetics, while keeping the picture as clean and simple as possible.
   
4. Digital Painters
   Andrea Spinazzola
   Would you like to attempt the most complex painting techniques but you don’t know how? With this tutorial we will demonstrate Adobe Photoshop’s tips to obtain oil, chalk or watercolor paint artworks from a photo. A leap forward from the simple use of the artistic filters that will transform you into an expert Digital Painter.
   
5. Special Effects
   Marissa Rivera
   Ever wanted to do flashy, special effects like magic, weapon fire, glowing powerful eyes or just something out of your own creation? Here is the tutorial to help you! All the basics are explained along with some tricks and techniques. With such special effects, you will bring your art work to life, such as a powerful image or a comic that requires lot of special effects. You will also learn the tricks to lighting and how lighting and colors effect objects and atmosphere. Build up your creativity to a whole new level of originality or inspiration!
   
6. Making a Rotating Web Banner
   Dan Wellman
   Running a web site costs money; there’s no escaping this, although there are ways in which this cost can be offset, or even negated altogether. Many large Internet sites offer ‘free’ web space that you can use to create and host your site from, although in reality, this usually turns out to be a false economy, mainly because you find adverts for either the company itself, or their sponsors plastered all over your beautifully crafted site.
   
7. Billboard for occasion
   Andrzej Gunther
   Billboards are the most important way to show us employers products or else. We can see hoardings all around the world.
   
8. Walking in the night light
   Pandabaka
   This is a picture of a cartoon character walking in a setting of amusement dark during night time. The background night light scene is adopted from a real photograph to get the required atmosphere. The goal here is too save the artists time in creating a picture with complicate details. The cartoon character was firstly drawn on paper and scanned to created file to work on Photoshop.
   
9. Consumers test - Digital Multimedia Storage and Display
   .psd magazine
   
   
10. Interview with Eddie Tapp
    Ewa Samulska
    Eddie Tapp, M.Photog.,Cr.,MEI,API,CPP, the Director of the Institute of Visual Arts in Maui, Hawaii, an award-winning photographer, lecturer, consultant and author on digital imaging issues. Over 20 years of involvement in computer technology, especially in educating and consulting corporations, studios and agencies in the applications of digital imaging workflow, color management, pre-press and digital photography globally through workshops, seminars, on-site consulting and training, has ranged him among the most advanced specialist in this field.
    

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