A J Butler

Pillow Text Photoshop Tutorial

ajbutler — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:18:17 +0000

In this short ten minute video we look at creating out own fatter-looking text, and beveling the text to create the appearance of fluffy pillows.

Here’s how to accomplish this look:

Creating Nebula and Space Backgrounds in Photoshop

ajbutler — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:38:06 +0000

Here’s a short-ish youtube video on creating nebula and space backgrounds with Photoshop.

Basic idea is to create clouds with the render clouds filter, and stars with the noise filter and then adjust.

Here’s what you can end up with:

Painting explosions with custom brushes in Photoshop

ajbutler — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:43:54 +0000

Here’s a short video on using clouds to paint explosions or fire with Photoshop.

The main concept is to create a brush from a cloud.

You’ll need a photo of a cloud to play along, so if it’s night or there aren’t any fluffy clouds close by to photograph, grab one of these…

Here are a few clouds:

As always, you can reach me with questions and comments at aj@yahoo.com.

Here’s what you could end up with:

2012 Dodecahedron Calendar now ready!

ajbutler — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:06:43 +0000

It’s a fun project for the kids on a rainy day

http://www.ajbutler.com/ajbutler_calendar_2012.pdf

CTP Badge now available

ajbutler — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 03:55:20 +0000

Grab my badge here:

http://www.ajbutler.com/ctp-badge/

Welcome to my new Blog

ajbutler — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:36:16 +0000

I’m semi-retired and living in Shenzhen, China and Toronto, Canada with my family. I occasionally tutor and lecture on topics such as ICT, Accelerated Learning Methodologies, as well as Adobe and Microsoft software.

I’ll work on using this blog to perhaps give you some new places to go, people to meet and books to read.

Click here or on the Adobe link in the menu bar to download my in-famous Dodecahedron 2012 Calendar.

Looking forward to chatting with you!

A J