Photoshop Posts

Hungarian designer Luca Molnar is a frontrunner of colorful, vivid illustrations. For her experimental works, she uses a mix of vector art, photo manipulation and even motion graphics. Luca combines the imaginary world of Henri Rousseau with the spontaneous craziness of Kandinsky, Miro and Kenny Scharf. By doing so, she delivers messages as a 21st century expressionist, dadaist and pop artist. Welcome to Luca Molnar’s intriguing garden of eye candy!

In the most pure form, vector graphics are visuals made up of points, lines, curves and geometrical shapes. A vector is represented by mathematical equations - going from point A to point B, and can be resized as often as needed without loss of quality. Vector illustration is a popular technique used by many digital artists. Many of today’s image-makers have grown up with vector programs and have developed their skills accordingly, utilizing the huge technologic advances of vector graphics to fuel their creativity.

Illustrator CS5 includes some great new drawing tools, including a set of perspective guides and natural media effects. Here we take you through how to use them.

Self taught illustrator Marleen Weijman conjures up her striking vexel artworks working primarily with Photoshop. Working under the artist name Womanwithagun, her depictions of the contemporary music and fashion scene are using a poppy style of representation. Her pet project is the series of eye-catching portraits Marleen created of pop diva Lady Gaga. The illustrations combine a striking elegance with a dramatic visual impact, and play upon the viewer as skillfully as the real Lady Gaga. Smashing!

It's been 20 years since Adobe Photoshop 1.0 was released, and today more and more illustrators and graphic art professionals all over the world are using Adobe's products to produce digital art, illustrations, photo retouches, videos, web sites and other creative material. Let’s have a look at the history of Adobe’s creative software.

Cristiano Siqueira, popularly known as Crisvector, is a digital illustrator from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Siqueira blends vector art, 3D design and Photoshop together to create his distinct digital art. Deriving his inspiration from web 2.0 and the worlds of music, movies, gaming and art, Cristiano pushes the boundaries of his visual planet on a daily basis.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator share many of the creative capabilities of the other. Photoshop is a bitmap image manipulation and processing program that is perfect for creating, outputting or modifying digital images of a photographic nature. Illustrator is a vector based drawing program that generates individual vector objects (Bezier curves) that retain their characteristics and are not part of a bitmap. Although the creative programs Photoshop and Illustrator are manufactured by Adobe, there are quite some differences.