I’ve been getting a few queries via comments and via e-mail about when I’ll be posting step three on how to make stereograms. Some people are nice about it, and some are a little (okay, a lot) more demanding. I got an e-mail once that practically yelled at me to get on with the next step. I’m not quite sure what the rush is. Certainly, I’m in no rush. No one pays me to write my tutorials, so there’s really…
This week, you can get Bryce 5.0 for free at Daz3D, so I figure this is the best time to continue in this three-part tutorial. The last time I talked about how to make stereograms, I detailed how to make a repeating background. Trust me, the repeating background is a crucial step—that’s the part that everyone can see. This time, we’re creating the part that people with “magic eyes” can see, the actual 3D part. We’re creating sort of an…
Note: This is the first of many installments to fulfill a promise I made some time ago to share how I make my stereograms. First step? Create a repeating background image. Now, if you want, you can simply snag any existing repeating background image that you have available—for instance, at any of the sources mentioned in a previous tutorial. But if you’re going for a thematic stereogram, you’ll probably want a specific kind of background. Cases in point—I created a…
If you have Adobe Illustrator, and you liked How to Make Celtic Knots, the Quick and Easy Way, you might like this mini-tutorial. You will be amazed at how ridiculously easy it was to make the knots I previously posted here and there, and I will totally regret having given away this secret technique of mine. Step One: Using the Pen tool, draw the paths that will make up the various threads in your Celtic knots and give them a…
Photoshop comes with preset textures like this one, called Snake Skin: These grayscale PSD files are seamless patterns and don’t usually look like much, but that’s because they’re meant to be used in conjunction with the basic Photoshop tools. For instance, you can use the snake skin texture as a texture channel when rendering Lighting Effects (Filter > Render > Lighting Effects) and get this: Or you can load the texture into the Texturizer (Filter > Texture > Texturizer…) and…