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How to reduce the rendering time!

3ds Max 9 + Vray 1.5 = Free Scene!

Big render… Big resolution? No.

Making of Citroen C4 Runner

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How to add color to grayscale photos using curves in Adobe Photoshop?
Would you like turn your blac&white photo into Coloured one? Ok Let’s start with this nice tutorial:
STEP 1 : Clean up the image as best as you can (remove scratches, dust, etc..)
STEP 2 : Convert the image in CMYK - This is an [...]

Photoshop Tutorial - How to remove unliked highlights so quickly!

Very, very often we take a nice pics, with dear friends or beautiful girls/boys… but unliked higlights fills our visages! Especially in interiors shots, using the flash…
With Adobe Photoshop and my veeery fast and simple technic you can improve your pics quality in just 30 seconds!
Let [...]

“Photoshop CS Text Effects” is a great video collection you can find and buy on WatchandLearnPhotoshop.com.
They are videos for intermediate level users, you can learn how to use the text tool, filters, styles, leyers and more features to make the texts as you imagine.
21 videos for 3d text, marble text effect, digital clock and water [...]

Matte painting? What’s Matte painting?
Matte Painting it’ s a very useful and powerful technic to create imaginary landscapes.
As you can read on Wikipedia:
Mattes Painting: it’s used in photography and special effects filmmaking to combine two or more image elements into a single, final image. Usually, mattes are used to combine a foreground image (such as [...]

In Photoshop cs2 you can find a new feature named Vanish point.
If you want to replace same parts of your picture but you have problems with perspective, for exemple with bricked wall or wood floor, you can easly do it using the new option: Vanish point!
You can create your reference grid and use replacement [...]

Photoshop tutorial. If you want to render any kind of frosted glass, you have to think about to notable increase of rendering time.
My personal solution is to render “normal” glasses with our render engines, and after abtain any kind of glass playing [...]