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“Desire” by P. T. Michelle

26 Wednesday Feb 2014

Posted by keithdraws in Book cover, Composition, Fantasy art, golden ratio, Illustration., Photo compositing, Photoshop, Typography

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Patrice had a very specific vision for this cover."Desire" by P. T. Michelle

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

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Breathtaking book cover

14 Tuesday Jan 2014

Posted by keithdraws in Composition, Photo compositing, Photoshop, The Rule of Thirds, Typography

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Just wow!breathtaking cover

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

See the actual post here

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How to mask hair in PS5

02 Tuesday Oct 2012

Posted by keithdraws in General, Photo compositing, Photoshop

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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:

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Free Photoshop 6 video tutorials

17 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by keithdraws in General, Photo compositing, Photoshop

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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.

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Simple Photo Compositing

03 Monday Sep 2012

Posted by keithdraws in Photo compositing, Photoshop

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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.

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