by Alex Hogrefe | Jan 1, 2012 | Styles / Effects |
I’m always looking for ways to take renderings that just aren’t working and turn them into something that can be used for portfolios or cover pages. This tutorial is about as simple as it gets in terms of difficulty and speed. In the example below,...
by Alex Hogrefe | Dec 18, 2011 | Styles / Effects |
I don’t know if I’m just in the holiday spirit, but I thought I would write a post about winterizing an illustration. In essence, this tutorial takes your typical daytime rendering and turns it into a snowy winter scene, which is easier than you...
by Alex Hogrefe | Sep 27, 2011 | Styles / Effects |
Ahhh, Finally decided to throw together a HDR tutorial. Its not as in-depth as some of my other tutes, but describes the overall process I use. I created a rendering just for this tutorial, one that I thought would work well for HDR processing with lots of...
by Alex Hogrefe | Jul 4, 2011 | Styles / Effects, Uncategorized |
Yesterday, while watching golf, I saw a commercial that folded paper out of a book into buildings that turned into a town which then grew into a city, etc. The commercial caught my attention not only because of its execution and concept, but also because the...
by Alex Hogrefe | May 17, 2011 | Styles / Effects |
If you haven’t discovered them already, there are a few websites that have been around for a while that let you apply unique “filters” to images. Both are equally easy to use, and provide many parameters to adjust the final outcome. I’ll...
by Alex Hogrefe | Oct 31, 2010 | Styles / Effects |
The night renderings for the Jindu Project posted a couple of weeks ago had a cobble stone street that was Photoshopped to look wet. Adding a reflection such as this adds a bit more excitement to the image compared to leaving it flat. I have always liked...
