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By Saul "waybetterthanyou" Peed
Anything I say comes from me and represents my personal opinions, views and subtle plans for influencing society. Read, ruminate over and remember at your own risk. If I teach you something and it helps, teach someone else, unless they’re female, as they just don’t listen..
The ironic thing about working in 3D is that you have to know 2D programs like Photoshop like the back of your hand. My significant other (SO) knows the back of my hand pretty well. She’d probably be good at Photoshop, too. I’ve decided to devote this TAB to making a cool image in Photoshop. The image we’re going to make is pretty complex, but it’s also easy to do. We’re not going to make textures, but rather learn some of Photoshop’s subtleties. Once the aesthetics are learned, textures are a breeze. For this tutorial, I’ve decided that we’re going to make a cave. The reason I chose a cave is because yesterday these chicks told me that I must have come from the caveman era. Really, I had no idea I looked that strong to them. They really must have wanted me. The cave will have a 3D look to it, but it will be exclusively done in Photoshop. I’ve made this tutorial as simple as possible, and if you cannot follow it, you suck, and I don’t want you reading this column again. (So all of you at Epic should stop reading now.)
Step 1. Go to Photoshop, and open a new document. Make it 640 X 480 pixels. I want to put a treasure inside of the cave. How about a huge golden rock? Let’s start with it. Draw a circle using the circle marquee tool, then go to quick mask mode, draw another circle inside the first circle, and then press the delete key. Breasts! Go back to normal mode and press alt-backspace. You now have a shiny ball inside your mystical cave!
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