Tutorial Ideas

[Allen Harkleroad]

Hi Folks,
As most of you know I run GDF and am also publisher of TIEMdesign.com.
We are in need of ideas for tutorials on CorelDRAW, PhotoPaint, Illustrator, Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, After Effects, 3ds max, lightwave, natural media (drawing, sketching etc.) as well as other programs listed on the TIEMdesign.com Howto/Tutorial Section. Please post ideas/requests on this thread and I will pass it on to our tutorial writers.

Allen


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[lost]

a tutorial that will show me how to do this cartoonish effect on photos..

http://www.dominanceent.com/Walk_Wit_The_New_South.jpg

http://mixtapemob.com/images/top_right.gif

http://www.allmixtapes.com/uploaded/phpSw803f.jpg


i hope yall can tell the style from those pics.. the first one for sure.. but the others are prolly too small..

[grafixtudio]

Hi


How about watercolor and oil painting tutorials?


Thanks

[SELFTAUGHT]

Also tutorials how to achieve the look of this album artwork.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002IQHBQ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002ABSP4.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005U2LB.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I know there's good lighting as far as the photography, but there's also something else going on with each character, like some kind of posterization technique.

[Fixion]

How about a tutorial on distressing type so young designers finally stop using those damn cheesy prefabricated distressed fonts.

[Broacher]

Allen,

When I browse about, there seems to be almost countless software tutorials on how to 'look like this' or achieve this effects. Doesn't most of that stuff just bore you to tears after awhile?

You know what I think? I think we should all stop spending so much time trying to 'look' like somebody else and just sit down and do things. And the more things, creative things, that we can do outside of the software envelope, the richer will our work, and lives be.

There's far too much 'toy' appeal still to all this 'stuff' -- and it really shows when you look around. If anything, we need a good how-toon avoiding how-to's and more "I-wonder-what-would-happen-if"s. And I don't just mean natural media, I mean ideas, experiments, strategies. Or how to recognize when you're getting too influenced by the software in the box, and not the little people that live in your socks... or skull. Some people claim that the computer has given visualizers a new way of seeing, but I believe it has just given us a kind of over-dependance on our tools.

And it's like people who wear glasses (like you and me). Back in the charcoal, fruit paint, and cave walls days, we would have never made it past the age of ten before becoming a saber tooth snack. But nowadays we live on-- as do our myopic genes (under the sponsorshop of my good vision health plan-- both my kids need glasses too). I just know someday there's going to be this group of futuristic graphic designers sitting around and saying to each other-- man, look at this. How the heck did they ever do this piece with only 2 gigs of RAM and a single sub-tetrahertz processor?

Hey, it's a nice site you got going here. See, I like shop talk as much as the next clicker, it's just that I prefer to use it to break the ice, or get people into talking more about the things that really are interesting. Ideas, viewpoints, random belches of creativity. You know-- 'shake'. It's like... like cookbooks. Yeah. Do you ever read cookbooks? I mean, there's a lot of great recipes out there. Some are found in really cheap, church fundraiser books, others in the $80 coffee table adornments. But if you look at the cookbook market today, it's not the recipes that sell these books. It's the connection between the cooking experience of the author and the life of the reader. Some can be more entertaining to read than many novels. That's what I'd like to see. A change in the traditional how-to format. Not another graphic arts recipe book, but something that would take you on a creative production journey that's familiar enough to understand, but exotic enough to make you wonder. And humour! Why isn't there more humour in these things? Why am I rambling on?

I don't know... just wishing there was something other than another damn recipe to look forward to.

Oh, and Self-Taught? Looks to me like this is just a simple technicolour trick. LAB mode. S crank the ol' luminosity curve, and pull in the ends on A and B to pump the colour and just keep the midpoints nailed. ("Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" --sounds like good copy for a teenager's tatoo.)

Post Edited (Broacher) : 11/5/2004 3:31:33 AM GMT

[coconut]

i think prepress would be helpful
explaining vector
' alias, anti-alias
post script fonts
image resolutions and formats web/print


What do I look like a smoken monkey?

[PrintDriver]

LOL with Broacher!
You have a point!
I'm all for tutorials for the young un's to explore a program's possibilities. And humor is always good.
Serve up a couple, man!
When computer design was up and coming some of us illustrators (the drawing kind, not the program users) were predicting cookie cutter graphics and for the most part we weren't disappointed. Only lately has the pendulum been swinging back to using the comp programs in truly creative fashion. Some really fantastic things are starting to come out now as designers take them to the next level.

Coconut, have you read the resource section? 3 of the items you mention are discussed there. One is touched on. I'm gonna ask Kool to post the link he had regarding fonts. It was a goody.

PrintDriver is a grande format digital print dude (bigger than a proofer, LOL). His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[coconut]

Thanks PD, I would like to read that, I just know those are things that I had a time learning, or where the real important technical part.


What do I look like a smoken monkey?

[Broacher]

>>When computer design was up and coming some of us illustrators (the drawing kind, not the program users)<<

Hey PD, sounds like we've got more than gray hairs in common. That's what I trained in, oh about [cough] or so years ago.

Do you still do any of that?

http://www.bobroach.com/pics/kilroy.gif

[PrintDriver]

Don't do so much illustrating any more. Went to school for it, did a little of it for non-profits way back when but somehow got into doing a lot of crap designing in Quark and Illustrator when they became all the rage. No one wanted handiwork any more. Just clip art <sigh>. Hated dealing with clients so I switched over to pre-press and have been happy since (in a relative manner of speaking). I paint now to keep the illy skills happy.

PrintDriver is a grande format digital print dude (bigger than a proofer, LOL). His advice/opinions may not apply to the 4color/offset/web world of printing

[uncle carbunkle]

Broacher - you're such a sh!t disturber! me likey!

tutorials - good for people to learn the programs. debate and brainstorming...critical skills that nobunny knows no more. not really.

and there is a reason why i don't like wearing socks.

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[DavidLieb]

I don't know if this is an option to you because of bandwidth, but video tutorials are great, and actually take about the same time to make than writing usually does.

I use camtasia studio to make mine...

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