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Education
The Digital Eye: Working with Graphic Formats
There are basically two types of graphics files. Raster (also sometimes called Bitmap) images are composed of square, colored pixels…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Let There Be Light
Light is the medium in which we as digital artists work. By manipulating the numerical proportions of the red, green…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Horror Movie Poster
Lately, television and movie-going audiences are seeing a resurgence of intelligent, creepy horror shows. From “American Horror Story” to “Castle…
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Features
How to Combine Line Art and Posterization to Create Dramatic Images
Line art—it’s used to spike a picture with high contrast impact. It’s void of color and midtones and contains only…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Un-Masking Mask Making
The ability to isolate elements on a picture is an essential skill in the image editing process. Accurate masking determines…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Brush up on Brushes
If you think about it, the methods used by painters and computer artists differ mainly in the physical application of…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Swapping Heads
It happens sometimes-the wrong expression on the right pose. Perhaps the smile looks more like a grimace, or everything else…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Focus on Focus
The image may be perfect in most respects. The contrast is fine, the color works, the composition is well balanced…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Painting with Pixels
Wet Paint Applying color to a surface is one of the oldest and most common forms of self-expression. From the…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Paper, Please
Paper! The thin material we encounter every day in some form or other is produced by pressing together moist fibers…
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Education
The Digital Eye: Anaglyphic 3D
RGB digital images are composed of three color channels. Repositioning the contents of a color channel up or down, or…
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