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Creating a 3D Globe in Photoshop CS4 Extended

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

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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Editable Fisheye Lens Effect in Photoshop

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

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. (more…)

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Rachel Oakes Preston Facelift

Monday, June 29th, 2009

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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Musical Chairs for Board Members (With Photoshop)

Friday, March 27th, 2009

For a magazine project I am working on now, I had to update a photograph of our board members, to reflect changes that have occurred since the original photograph was taken.

The original photo was shot in 2007, I believe. Even then, not all of the then-current board members were available at the time of the photo shoot. I arranged for one of my coworkers, Kenton Rogers, to take one photo without the missing members, who were added later when they were able to come and sit for a photo.

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Caribbean Vacation

Friday, December 26th, 2008

Heretofore I had been the only person in my family who had not been to the Caribbean. I admit, I’m more of a mountains person than a beaches person. When I think of “paradise” or “God’s country,” I’m more likely to envision a rustic cabin overlooking streams, evergreen forests, and rocky peaks than a sandy shoreline with waving palms. Still, in the midst of an icy, sleeting southern Illinois winter, it is not hard to dream of tropical getaways. This winter my family decided to take a cruise.

Going on the cruise meant skipping GYC, the first one I’d ever missed. I felt a bit sad about that, but then there’s always 3ABN and AudioVerse, where the GYC highlights are captured in all their multimedia glory. The one part I really missed was seeing my friends — but I got to visit other friends, so am consoled.

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