“Desire” by P. T. Michelle

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composition, Cover Art, Cover design, Desire, golden ratio, Keith Draws, P.T. Michelle, Photo compositiing, Photoshop, Vampire

Patrice had a very specific vision for this cover.

She gave me the stock shot of the Main Character and together we decided I would paint everything else (including the wings).

Realism is always a challenge but I feel it was a great success, combining the best elements of both media.

Her  blog is here and her facebook is here

Breathtaking book cover

Just wow!

Apparently my cover for “The Island” by Teri Hall is breathtaking.

See the actual post here

How to mask hair in PS5

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book cover, Cover Art, hair, Keith Draws, masking, Photo compositiing, Photoshop

This is a great video tutorial on creating a cut out mask for hair.

And this is even better:

Free Photoshop 6 video tutorials

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book cover, cd cover, Cover Art, Keith Draws, Photo compositiing

I’m sure this link will be very helpful to all who want to work on photo compositing.

3D Buzz is happy to announce that the Photoshop CS6 Fundamentals class that was made freely available to the general public is now available for download… free to all!

You can find the download links here:

http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/showthread.php?193870

I’ll be going through these, you can never know enough.

Simple Photo Compositing

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book cover, cd cover, Cover Art, Cover design, illustration, Keith Draws, kindle, layout, Photo compositiing

This Video is great for a beginner, to learn some basic techniques in photo compositing.  Though it’s not mentioned in here I also recommend you get used to working at a minimum of 450 dpi at actual size. When your work is printed it will usually be at 300 dpi, so you will be working at a higher resolution. This is standard practice, and means that you work will be reduced in size when it’s finally printed. The reduction will improve the quality.