Category Archives: My Creative Works

Creating a 3D Globe in Photoshop CS4 Extended

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Note: This technique creates not merely a 3D-like globe, but an actual stereoscopic image when viewed with 3D red and blue glasses.

Using surface textures from NASA and a bump map from another online source, I created a fully rotatable, 3D globe of the Earth in Photoshop CS4 Extended. It can be viewed or lighted from any direction. There is also a separate cloud layer I can turn on, edit, and move around. My master file is a very large image (6000 × 6000 pixels), more than ample to fill a full spread at 300 ppi.

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Today’s Coloring Project: Ellen White’s First Vision

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It has sometimes been difficult to find artwork or photos for the series I’ve been writing and designing, “Our Heritage,” for 3ABN World magazine.

However, through a helpful suggestion from a contact at the Ellen White Estate, I found a collection of many archive images, mostly black and white. Some are photos, and some are paintings. Turns out there was a painting of one of the most significant events described in the December installment of this series, which was Ellen White’s first vision. I hadn’t expected to find something so perfect for the article.

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Editable Fisheye Lens Effect in Photoshop

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The fisheye lens effect, used judiciously, has great creative uses. Although your best bet is to use an SLR camera with a real fisheye lens, you can achieve a similar effect in Photoshop without such a lens.

Although creating a fisheye lens effect in Photoshop might seem very easy, using the built-in filters such as Spherize, the advantage of the technique I am sharing is that the original image remains fully editable and distortion-free, and any future edits do not require repeating the distortion effects. Continue reading →

Rachel Oakes Preston Facelift

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For the “Our Heritage” series I’ve been writing for 3ABN World, I wanted an illustration of Rachel Oakes Preston. Unfortunately, the best I could find was the one shown first, below. I don’t have much experience with traditional art (painting, etc.), so the best I could do was modify the image into what I wanted. The image shown next is the result after retouching in Photoshop.

Rachel Oakes Preston, original image

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