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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Concept Process

Allen Williams

This time I’d like to talk about my concept art process which is a hybrid process that seems more complicated than it is. I lay that out below but I would like to say that, for the most part, concept iterations/explorations aren't always about finding a better idea...but more about presenting options. If you concept for people it is very likely that what you consider the best idea doesn't land as well as one of…

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A Portrait in 5 Layers

Justin Gerard

February 18, 2025 - After my post in March on Applying Transparent Color in Photoshop, I received a number of messages, emails and threats asking for more detail on the order of layers I prefer to use. As I mentioned in that post, I often end up working in hundreds of layers so a list of this would read like a phone book of seemingly random Photoshop gibberish. And listen, I need my layers! Partly because I love the look it gives, and partly to see my computer slowly going insane.  (It's a cutting edge space age device that can speak every language on the planet, can see people fixing mirrors in low earth orbit and can do math at the quantum level; yet all I have it do is look at videos of cats falling in bathtubs.) Back…

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