October 27th, 2007

Thumbnails for Photoshop files in Windows

by Sergio Ordonez at 10:46 am on Photoshop
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Everybody know that Windows use a default icon for PSD files, it is really disturbing when you have a lot of Photoshop files because you cant choice the one you like just looking at the thumbnails.

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July 27th, 2007

Advanced digital drawing (Photoshop Videotutorial)

by Sergio Ordonez at 8:41 pm on Mascot design, Photoshop, videotutorials, Drawing
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In this video we’ll learn how to make a digital drawing from a sketch made in pencil, as we do in SOSFactory. If you’re a novice in Photoshop i suggest you to practice first with the basic tutorial on Digital Drawing with Photoshop. In this new videotutorial the main news is that we’ll learn how to modulate the lines giving them different weights; with this we’ll get a much more shocking and dynamic result.

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May 17th, 2007

Get a super girlfriend… with Photoshop

by Sergio Ordonez at 10:43 am on Photoshop, Photoretouch
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Why spending thousands of Dollars for a photographic session in a studio with a top model when you have your neighbour, a digital camera and Photoshop? Here you have a little work i did a couple of days ago.

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May 17th, 2007

Extract comic lineart

by Sergio Ordonez at 10:37 am on Photoshop
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This is a Photoshop action (that is to say a set of automated commands) to extract the lines of your black and white drawings. The idea of having the lines in onw layer and adding the colors in other layers below, this works like some kind of guide.

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May 17th, 2007

Photoshop: PSD 75% lighter

by Sergio Ordonez at 10:31 am on Photoshop
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Photoshop seems to me like a marvellous software, in my opinion isby far the best out there… is the most powerful, versatile, the greatest. But it still has a problem since previous versions, the weight of the files is huge, we could think that for the information it has the size is reazonable but…

Did you know that we can reduce the weight of the PSD up to 75%?

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May 15th, 2007

Photoshop videotutorial: Save for web

by Sergio Ordonez at 6:30 am on Photoshop, videotutorials
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Click on the imagen if you want to see the Photoshop videotutorial to learn how to save for the web, the goal is saving with the best quality but the smaller size

I have use 2 characters like examples, the one Sosfactory designed for realvideosite (mascot with gradient and lot of colors) and the main character of relaunch of POG games, designed by Sosfactory for Funrise Toy Corp .

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May 6th, 2007

Photoshop Tutorial: digital drawing

by Sergio Ordonez at 8:37 pm on Photoshop, Drawing
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This tutorial is for beginner Photoshop users, so we will explain everything in detail; you’ll learn to use the vector drawing tools of Photoshop using our mouse… for now we won’t be using a digitizer tablet. I will post another Photoshop tutorial more advanced as soon as possible.

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May 3rd, 2007

Videotutorial: digital color with Photoshop

by Sergio Ordonez at 6:36 pm on Mascot design, Photoshop, videotutorials
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Here is the last step when designing mascots for websites. I did this color job just to do this video, so its a short version, I usually spend around 3h per mascot design when I work from sosfactory… but this would be too long, impossible to edit, maybe in the future :)

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May 3rd, 2007

Videotutorial: digital inking with Photoshop

by Sergio Ordonez at 6:19 pm on Mascot design, Photoshop, videotutorials, Drawing
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This is a photoshop video tutorial where I show how to clean lineart done in a traditional way. Its the usual process we do at time to from sosfactory.

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May 3rd, 2007

Photoshop Tutorial: 3d logo

by Sergio Ordonez at 5:53 pm on Photoshop, Logotypes
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This is an advanced Photoshop tutorial , i’ll give more importance to the procedure here and i’m not going to explain the tools in thoroughness. If you have any difficulties to follow it, i recommend you to practice a bit with some simpler tutorials first… You could also take a look at Photoshop’s Help […]

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