Marcus McCurdy’s Blog

I came across this tutorial on design float and decided to try it out. The tutorial is from Vile Works blog. Here is my end result of the tutorial.[Show as slideshow]

I stumbled upon (not the stumble upon site) this great post on Gamasutra about using the highpass filter in photoshop to make it easier to tile textures. The focus is on textures in games and 3D graphics, but it is sill pertinant for any kind of texture use. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20010523/hajba_pfv.htm

Lately, I’ve been looking at noise ninja (a plugin for photoshop that removes digital noise from photographs) because my wife’s camera seems to take very noisy pictures. Then, I came across this cool tutorial that shows how to remove the noise without a plugin.

I love these glowing light trails in photoshop and here is another tutorial on them. The last tutorial I linked to wasn’t really a light trails tutorial, but more of a tutorial on making a background for said light trails. This one looks really cool though so check it out… bah who am I kidding [...]

I found this cool lighting effects tutorial over at Adam Woodhouse’s blog. It is a quick read, but I haven’t used the “render lighting effects” filter in photoshop before and I liked the effect it produced. This would be a good start if you want to make a colorful background and put some of the [...]