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How to Paint Quick Realistic Fur Using Photoshop

Do you love photo realistic digital art, but lack the time or skills to produce epic digital paintings?

If you answered yes, then don’t go anyway, this is the tutorial for you.

Simply avoiding learning digital painting is a real shame, as it can teach you a lot about design, art and Photoshop, and can really help you better your understanding of areas such as lighting and perspective.

In short, if you learn digital painting, other aspects of your day to day designing will benefit.

Luckily, there are certain short hand techniques that the masters use when it comes to digital painting.

This means that even if you don’t a whole lot of time, you can produce amazing works in minutes or hours, rather than days.

This tutorial will teach you how to draw realistic fur using Photoshop, without having to worry about drawing it hair by hair.

Think of this as a short hand guide.

Google Maps is a very helpful tool and it’s used by lots of people. It may be a bit difficult to integrate on your website but nowadays using jQuery plugins this has become a lot easier.  Do you want to let your visitors know where they can find you?  Choose one of these 10 plugins and add it to your website and if you need more plugins to make your website even better you should check out these 10 Free jQuery Plugins for Responsive Web Design and 10 Awesome jQuery Typography Plugins.

Facebook skins and templates help you build your FB page fast and make it look professional. It is very important to have a strong social media presence and these 10 templates will surely help your business stand out from the rest. If you have a WordPress website you should also check out these 10 Great WordPress Plugins which will help you manage your FB page.

Members Area Tutorial: Create a Dark And Surreal Photo Manipulation “Volcano Spirit”

In this tutorial I’ll how you how to create a dark and surreal photo manipulation called “Volcano Spirit”.

We’ll combine several stock photos to create a surreal head carrying a volcano with hot lava flowing from the eye.

Here’s a look at some of the advanced techniques covered in this tutorial:

• Creating custom smoke using an original technique
• Creating a custom wave effect using photo manipulation techniques
• Building up advanced lighting effects for a bold outcome.
• Creating artificial lighting to make your piece more cohesive.
• Professional photo blending techniques, including a study of how to utilize layer blend modes

Final Image

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

We have some important news regarding the Tuts+ Marketplace. In one month’s time we’ll be closing its doors to focus more on our sister product, Tuts+ Premium. I’d like to personally thank the authors for their contribution and apologize that we will no longer be offering a marketplace for tutorials and ebooks.

The mission statement of Envato, the parent company of the Tuts+ Marketplace, is to help people earn and learn online. We are very committed to these two goals, and while the marketplace was in the right area for both, we believe that Tuts+ Premium, along with the free Tuts+ Network, give us a more effective way for us to achieve our learning goals. As such we plan to concentrate more of our marketing and investment on those two parts of the company.

A Behind the Scenes Look at the Work Processes of World Renowned Artists

At the FanExtra network we believe that the best way to learn is from experts in your field. That’s why we employ some of the best tutorial writers and bring you regular quality content.

Tutorials are great, but I often find myself looking at work from some of the world’s top digital artists and wondering about the thought processes, techniques and workflows used to create such incredible art. I always think ‘if I only I could get my hands on their original Photoshop files I’d be able to break down exactly what makes their work so awesome!’.

Are you a Steven Seagal fan? Well, he’s a fan of Envato. Well, at least the producers of the official trailer for his new movie Maximum Conviction are. That’s the trailer above.

VideoHive author Mesut Danış (Balistique, website) contacted me recently with some great news. He noticed that one of his After Effects openers was used in the trailer.

The item in question is The Wired Trailer, an easy-to-customize project that comes with a helpful video tutorial. It looks fantastic, and there’s no surprise that it caught the eye of these Hollywood producers.

An exciting month packed with tons of design tutorials, and design articles to read through. This is a great round-up, which has captured all the best resources from on-line design community. I hope you enjoy the article round-up, and would love to hear your thoughts in the comments section below.

Members Area Tutorial: Follow an Expert Photo Manipulator’s Workflow

Today our expert members tutorial offers something a little different. We have a real life design casestudy from world renowned designer Wojciech Magierski.

Wojciech has agreed to talk you guys through his typical workflow in the creation of his popular piece ‘Voices’.

There are plenty of actionable quick tips throughout this tutorial, and beyond that it’s really inspiring to see how the pro’s go about their image creation.

Final Outcome

As always, this is the final image that we’ll be creating:

What outstanding items have been arriving on the marketplaces? Here are a handful that have caught our attention.

The image above is a VideoHive item called Smart & Creative by gerdianghilky, an After Effects project perfect for promoting your services, products or apps.

Read on to explore more awesome new items.

AudioJungle: Spanish Road

An easy-listening melody, perfect for presentations. Acoustic guitar is the main instrument.