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Review: Design Doll (tips and tricks addition)
[Design Doll Homepage] This app has been out for a while but thought I would still take a moment to post about it and mainly share some tips on using it to help those just starting out with it too. Just a quick blurb about it. It is a 3d pose reference/modeling app. You can also import props and create simple ones in app….
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A Gradient Map Tutorial by Noukah
I love, love, love the way Noukah colors and lights her images. Her tutorial for this can be found here.
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Gamut Masks
Another Kendrys Draws gem I picked up here this time about picking better colors. He talks about using a web app called Gamut Maker (here) to help pick your colors. James Gurney explains the hows and whys in 3 blog entries (1 2 3 )
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Touch Monitor Right Clicking
Found this little gem earlier this week. If you have a touch monitor and want to right click with your finger simply touch the screen and hold it for a couple seconds to get the right click menu to appear. So glad I found this trick! This is probably the main reason I end up going back to the mouse.
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Portrait Practice
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New Finished Work
I used a reference for this over at Pinterest. Tried something new, softer. I like how it turned out.
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Photoshop Black and White Mode
AKA Check your value time- found a great tip in the ImagineFX mag for Photoshop. Open a new window then convert that window to black and white using ctrl+Y. Now you can instantly check values without distracting colors getting in the way 🙂
