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One on One : Skinner Spotlight

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Tutorial Series by John Selvia

John Selvia was a 3-time Emmy winning Art Director/animator at an NBC affiliate station who ate, lived and breathed Photoshop and LightWave 3D, and also used After Effects on a daily basis. As an adjunct instructor at a design/photography school he taught Interface Design, Advanced Photoshop, Motion Graphics, 3D, Animation and basic design and illustration classes.

Misc
Welcome To The Neighborhood!
Wednesday July 01 2009 - 06:03:44

 

What better way to welcome that new neighbor into the community than with the

‘Annoy Your Neighbor CD’!

99 Tracks of the most irritating sounds for your home or office!

Among my personal favs are:

  • gunshots
  • baby crying 1
  • air raid siren
  • yapping little dog
  • dentist drill
  • European ambulance
  • baby crying 2
  • modem tones

I know one of our Skinartistry members has recently relocated, but fear not. I am doing my very best to see that everyone on his block gets a copy of this CD!

 

         
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Tutorials
Interface Design in Adobe Photoshop Part Two - by John Selvia
Monday June 29 2009 - 14:28:37
Interface Design in Adobe Photoshop
Lesson 2: rounded corner interface plates

By John Selvia

I used to spend hours with the Pen tool in Photoshop to create rounded interface elements. But this technique speeds things up 10 fold. One hundred fold? This blew me away the first time I did it. This is one of the easiest techniques you can do in Adobe Photoshop, yet very powerful.

Before you get started, note that this is the second article in a series detailing the creation of interface elements in Photoshop.

You can read the first installment by clicking here

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Tutorials
Interface Design in Adobe Photoshop - by John Selvia
Monday June 22 2009 - 17:26:03
Interface Design in Adobe Photoshop

Lesson 1: Creating a pitted metal effect for the interface background
By John Selvia


This series of tutorials shows how to create interfaces for games, multimedia, motion graphics and web. There will be two approaches taken-the dirty, slimy, gritty, rusty interface, and the organic, clean, modern interface often seen in television and motion graphics.

For the first installment in this series, we'll explore the creation of a rusted, pitted metal background for our final interface. This will be accomplished in two quick stages.

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Site News
Welcome to Our Newest
Sunday June 21 2009 - 10:42:59
We would like to send out a warm welcome to our newest admin, Teddybearcholla!

Teddy has been a member of the site for a long time as well as an active participant in many of the other desktop customization sites. She is a member of the Babes Of Skinning and a talented wallpaper artist!

Welcome aboard, Teddy!

         
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Interview With A Skinner
One on One:Skinner Spotlight
Friday June 19 2009 - 09:25:33
This month's interview takes us inside the mind of one of the most innovative skinners around, The AVMan! He was the first artist to ever attempt and successfully pull off 3d graphics in a WindowBlind. His work includes categories such as DX, icons and wallpapers. He was part of our Skinartistry2 team SKIN-FU in the 2008 GUI's and is a good friend of mine, ladies and gentlemen.....TheAVMan!
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