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Retouching Resolutions: 2. Keep it Classy
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From the wacky and surreal, yet somehow refined and corporate style of C.J. Burton – we’ve learned that ‘standing out’ is essential in the world of Photoshop. But, now it’s time to turn our gaze towards Europe … dubbed ‘The Master of Retouching’, Christophe Huet brings an undeniable level of class to the retouching table:
2nd resolution: Keep it Classy
Perhaps best known for his melting / warping effects, Christophe has recently achieved a high profile in advertising – you may recognise some his work from Nike, Motorola and Playstation campaigns.
What we like about Christophe is that his images aren’t just about the manipulation itself, but also show consideration for the traditional qualities of photography. His acute attention to detail, especially when it comes to composition and lighting, lend the Frenchman’s creative retouching a rare level of sophistication …
… having said this his works include an elephant pissing on a car and a purple cow getting a massage. Essentially, he has a talent for making weird stuff look relatively classy.
Retouching Resolutions: 1. Always stand out from the crowd
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A couple of days ago we were amused by some of the nerdy responses to photoshop.com’s blog post “What’s Your New Year’s Resolution?”. See below for examples:
• Arun is going to to “try to make more realistic textures for the character models”
• Justie said she wanted to start taking her holiday photos in RAW format
• William is going to calibrate his Color Monitor.
This is not to say we have a problem with nerdy-photoshop-based New Years Resolutions, if anything we actively encourage it. But instead of putting you on the spot like photoshop.com, we’re going to be nice and do the work for you …
Finished Your Christmas Shopping?
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The original idea was that this post would be published on the 23rd or 24th December … the title aimed at whose of you who might have left your present shopping to the last minute. Unfortunately this didn’t happen, and rather than waiting until next December I decided to post it today.
Anyway, the title itself isn’t particularly significant, the post just consists of some vaguely festive photoshop tutorials. Hopefully one of them will make you think – “This looks sooo awesome I’m going to stop watching these crappy Christmas films starring Robin Williams and spend a couple hours learning how to make an awesome Christmas e-card with photoshop”.
20 PSD Text Manipulation Tuts That Will Turn You Into A Pro
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Many people can knock up some sort of text effect on Photoshop (popular examples being words written in the sky, letters embossed into stone, and shoddy 3d text) but only a select few can call themselves Pros. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which look like actual things from real life … like a plate, or a banana etc. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience.
Photoshop Tutorials: 13 Advanced Water Effects
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A lot of us like to think we can ‘do’ water on Photoshop, but lets be honest most of us can secreted admit that the finished result rarely looks quite watery enough for today’s high standards. This post is for everybody out there who would like to tweak their water editing skills (and maybe rely a little less on using various opacities blue to solve their problems).
Here are 13 PSD tutorials made for you by 13 Photoshop pros. If you work your way through these you can pretty much go ahead and make yourself a badge that reads ‘Neptune – God of The Sea’.
Reflex Stock is making waves in Central London …
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Reflexstock HQ has moved again, making us perhaps the most nomadic stock agency in the world this year! We’re saying goodbye to Hammersmith and hello to the lights of Oxford Street … just in time for Christmas.
To mark our move to the Media Industry hot spot that is Soho we’ve put together a few London-themed Photoshop artworks to get you inspired!
Halloween Adverts: Sick or Sleek?
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Up until today our blog here at Reflex Stock has declined to acknowledge the existence of Halloween… but don’t fret, this horrific oversight ends now.
In the nick of time (108 minutes before Halloween ends) we have decided to enter the dark, haunted, and at times inspirational forest that is the global Halloween blogging arena.
For our entry (and your inspiration) we have hand picked some of the freakiest ads in the entire “trick or treat” universe. Enjoy!
The Most Outstanding Movie Posters of 2011
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After compiling this list I was disappointed to discover that only 5 posters from my selection featured in the ‘Top Grossing Films of 2011′.
There are several conclusions we could draw from this information, but I think that main one is that I shouldn’t change career paths into film poster design.
Nonetheless, here are 40 film posters that I feel are more pleasing to look at than the poster for ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’.
20 Illustrated Portraits of Celebrities
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We’ve all seen the super-realistic pencil drawings that street artists like to sketch of celebrities. Popular subjects of late seem to have been Justin Bieber, Cheryl Cole and Roger Federer (of course alongside your classic Michael Jacksons and Gwyneth Paltrows). These artists often combine the sale of these sketches with the offer of a personal caricature.
Today’s post is not about accurate illustrations of celebrities – it’s about quality illustrations of celebrities (some would call them caricatures – I personally don’t like the word). This selection of images showcase some of the world’s most original and exciting illustrators.
Note: See if you can spot the Meryl Streeps.
On Location at London Design Festival
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Anybody visiting London’s V&A Museum this week would have encountered a playful scattering of contemporary exhibits that offer a refreshing contrast to the Museum’s permament collection (rumoured to be in excess of 4.5 million objects).
The V&A is the first port-of-call for this years London Design Festival, nine days in September where the city’s pivotal role in global design is showcased across hundreds of venues in city. Reflex send me (armed with only a camera) to check it out report back…
