PSD/tut: Cara from Legend of the Seeker
We're going from this: 
to this:
Under the cut, the download links (with Vibrance and Vibrance free) + explanation about this experiment of mine. :)
I've been thinking a lot about the pros and cons of tuts and psds.
I like writing tuts, but saving all the partial results and uploading them takes a lot of time and it's a boring job, to be honest. Not to mention the fact that to tweak the settings you have to recreate the psd on PS, following the tut step by step and that's boring as well.
But! Lots of people complain about PSDs, because they don't explain the how's and why's.
So I come up with a sort of hybrid: a psd with text layers explaing what I did, how and sometimes even why (you know, I'm pretty random and there isn't always a reason why I did what I did).
The text layers are all invisible and are placed below the layers the refer to. You just have to turn all the layers invisible and follow the psd/tut from the base layer to the top layer.
Please, let me know what you think of this hybrid!
Things you may need/want to check:
- I used this picture as a texture - snagged from the Ispiration Post at 20inspirations, Round 9.
- This tut explains how the Sample All Layers feature of the Blur/Smudge/Contrast Tool works.
DOWNLOAD LINKS (BOX.NET):
- PS CS4+
- Vibrance free
to this:
Under the cut, the download links (with Vibrance and Vibrance free) + explanation about this experiment of mine. :)
I've been thinking a lot about the pros and cons of tuts and psds.
I like writing tuts, but saving all the partial results and uploading them takes a lot of time and it's a boring job, to be honest. Not to mention the fact that to tweak the settings you have to recreate the psd on PS, following the tut step by step and that's boring as well.
But! Lots of people complain about PSDs, because they don't explain the how's and why's.
So I come up with a sort of hybrid: a psd with text layers explaing what I did, how and sometimes even why (you know, I'm pretty random and there isn't always a reason why I did what I did).
The text layers are all invisible and are placed below the layers the refer to. You just have to turn all the layers invisible and follow the psd/tut from the base layer to the top layer.
Please, let me know what you think of this hybrid!
Things you may need/want to check:
- I used this picture as a texture - snagged from the Ispiration Post at 20inspirations, Round 9.
- This tut explains how the Sample All Layers feature of the Blur/Smudge/Contrast Tool works.
DOWNLOAD LINKS (BOX.NET):
- PS CS4+
- Vibrance free