I haven’t put anything up for a while now, so I stayed up till 3am and came up with a little something. This was a nice old picture I had on my computer and did some variations on the last tutorial I had posted. That’s me and Drew Dawg in 2003 right before I shaved my dreads off!

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There’s the lady putting up all the decorations, I really like the natural light coming in.

She did such a great job!

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A couple pre-wedding beers.

Mr. Mallon

Little Kyle Dawg

Good People.

Very intrigued.

I love this one look at her in the background.

REUNITED.. Look at my eye, what is going on there?

Putting the mack down.

There was another picture taken but I am not going to post it, this one is perfect.

It’s  a wrap!

]]> http://www.eyetorres.com/2009/11/kyles-wedding/feed/ 3 http://www.eyetorres.com/2009/11/1-tutorial-a-day-24th-expresive-lighting-effects/ http://www.eyetorres.com/2009/11/1-tutorial-a-day-24th-expresive-lighting-effects/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:47 +0000 Francisco http://www.eyetorres.com/?p=727 This is a cool tutorial I have seen in every search I have done for tutorials. I was looking for quick tutorials so i always passed it up. Recently I decided I don’t need to limit myself to quick tutorials instead I would do whatever I thought was cool. I took a an hour or longer one day and came back to it today to finish it today. I found this tutorial at computerarts.co.uk if you like the look go ahead and check them out. You have to download a PDF with the instructions to do the tutorial this was the first time I had to do that.

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Here is the final image of this tutorial, I think it is really cool. I have seen this technique done on a lot of different images or at least something similar and think it is a very popular trend emerging in a lot of design. Here are a few examples of similar designs I found.

Below is my final design, my friend Pat catching some air dunking.

This tutorial was a little hard to follow it needed just a little more description in some of the steps. It would say to do this or that and not tell you how to do it. I got the just of it though, there were some steps where the author added his own sketches which he scanned and traced in Illustrator. I used some photoshop brushes and did not use my own sketches. I also added some things here and there like the background texture. This tutorial was pretty cool, I used Illustrator and Photoshop, overall it was not so easy to follow but had a great final effect.

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Here is the original picture they started with, pretty dark.

Then boom a whole lot of sunlight!

Here is my original not as dark as theirs but good enough for this tutorial.

Then bang sunshine in the morning! This tutorial is very simple and only takes about 2 steps. It’s nice to add a little something to those ordinary pictures. I think maybe a little smaller shine would work well also, but the big burst of light is pretty awesome. I think it gives the picture more drama, they are not so boring. Overall a very easy tutorial that can be very useful for certain images, not every image but for certain ones.

Here is the tutorial image, it is very Sin City looking, very cool.

Here is my go at it I really liked this one, it was pretty easy only one minor problem. The thing I could not get was the rain like it was in the original, I tried to fix it a few times but couldn’t get it the similar to the original. I still like the final outcome though, very cool looking. I used a picture I had taken for an engagement session over a year ago, I cut out Jimmy and created it from there. This was easy enough to follow the set up of the steps on the page were not laid out well, they are kind of jumbled around. The tutorial could use a little more organization and a little more clarity on how to make the rain, but I was able to produce a cool image anyways.

Here we have the original posting on thedesignworld.com and in my opinion it’s pretty crazy so I had to give it a go. The author was Young, check his profile page out here. He gave a straight foward tutorial that was extremely simple and so easy to follow, he did not have pictures of what each step would look like but you don’t need them.

Here is my finished piece, I think it’s really crazy looking and that is exactly what I was looking for. After you follow the very easy step by step instructions, you end up with a very cool looking image but you do not stop there grap some bruches and start adding to it. I think that was my favorite part it just made the image something different and you can just sit there all day creating different images by painting in different looks. I had a blast with this tutorial and will be visiting thedesignworld again very soon.

This is what the tutorial had as their final image, a cool effect that looks pretty fun.

This is the one I came up with I used a picture I took of a flower a while back. Pretty easy tutorial, it was a little off when it came to the specifics of the steps. I had to play around a little with it but that only took a couple of minutes. It kind of looks like a ball of energy is being released from the flower or maybe even pollen that glows. I changed it up a little, I used a different pattern for the background and added an inner shadow to the flower. When you have time to work on these tutorials you can play around and tweak the effects more and more.

Here is the look chromed out with a little color in there. Now every one who has messed around with Photoshop has probably come across the Plastic Wrap filter which gives a some what similar effect. But this was totally done in Layer Styles which is great for learning about Layer Styles.

Here is my version, I decided to add a reflection, some strokes of light and some bling. I made the reflection in 2 seconds you can check out how HERE, I have been doing that one for a while so it gets easier and faster every time. Actually my friend ryan showed me that one, you can check out his cool graphic design over at mean-e.com. The strokes of light are from a paintbrush set I found on the internet a while back, just do a google search and you will find them or something cooler. I just added all that stuff to change it up a little, you have to make these tutorials yours in some way. Have fun with them and experiment with the possibilities that’s what I did. There you have it something for that special someone! CINTA!