A very comprehensive guide about photography and Photoshop.
Fundamentals and advanced topics in this incredible and exaustive guide that talk about using levels and curves in photoshop, reduce noise, posterization… and more.
It’s not just for photoshop users but for all I think: the topics cover photoshop users too.. but not only. The most important thing […]

If you think that working with 3d models is only for expert users, able to use very sophisticated software like 3d studio max, maya or something like that… you are wrong!
It’s finishing the time for super smart guys using complex parameters to render wonderful images… because more and more often new softwares are appearing: softwares […]

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 […]

I hope you liked my article about PSD2Mat so today I’m going to write something about another very useful plugin: PSD Manager.
PSD manager is a plugin produced by Cebas for 3d Studio Max/Viz that allow to export a layered rendering directly in a Psd file format: one channel in one layer… ready to be opened […]

<< RDG PSD2Mat is a production proven connection between Adobe PhotoShop® and Autodesk 3D Studio MAX® - This maxscript converts layered PSD Files into a Scanline or VRay, Brazil or Mental Ray Material. Named layers are converted to bitmap files and assigned to their respective material slots. >>
Are you tired to create all differents […]

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 […]

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 […]

Some times there is same contest about girl made in 3d or 2d… in these contests great cg artists partecipate, and it’s so hard to choose the best 3d model!
The most famous contest in the world is “The most beautiful CG Girl“, powered by 3dm3. in In this kind of contest there are various girls’ […]

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 […]

Now is easier setting a 3d scene: we can use Global illumination or same Un-Biased engine render like Maxwell render or Indingo. But in the past, when PCs was not so powerful we was used to render with scanline or something like that.
Why actually anybody use these old render engines? Maybe we love super […]

Adobe Labs launchs a new free on line tool named Kuler.It’s a very useful tool to combine colors: you can use palette color made by other users, or you can create your own palette color and share it if you want.
You can choose the most popular palette, the highest rated or same recent one. […]