Tutorials

Adobe Touch Apps: Creating Mario’s Flower Power

Using both Adobe Ideas and Photoshop Touch I’ll show you how to create illustrations and effects on your iPad.

PSTouch: Adding Textures to Illustrations

Adobe Ideas is a great app for creating nice clean vector illustrations, but with Photoshop Touch I’ll show you how to add textures to your illustrations using only the effects inside the app.

Intro to Adobe Ideas

An introduction to Adobe Ideas a drawing application on the iPad that lets you sketch out your ideas in complete vector form. Because there is no loss in quality, any sketch or illustration on the iPad can easily be turned into an enormous banner that could cover your local skyscraper. You can even import your Adobe Ideas files into Illustrator or Photoshop to continue to refine your creation.

Wiggle on Position for the Puppet Tool

This tutorial covers how to apply expressions to the x and y positions separately in the puppet tool. In the previous tutorial, Wiggle on Position, I showed you how to apply a wiggle position to x and y separately using the Separate Dimensions option. The puppet tool in After Effects doesn’t have this option so we have to use an expression to achieve the same effect.

Alien People Eater

Learn how to illustrate an alien people eater character in Photoshop.

Animating Pixel Art in Photoshop

Creating your own pixel animation in Photoshop is as easy as it is fun! Using Photoshop’s Animation panel you can switch between animating with the timeline or frames view. Heck, Photoshop can even create inbetween frames of animation between two keyframes based on the object’s position, opacity, or effects. The process is quite simple so pull up a chair and grab some coffee and let’s get started…

After Effects On and Off Expression

In this tutorial I’ll show you how to add an After Effects expression that will randomly turn on and off a layer’s opacity to create a blinking effect.