Unique tutorials about 3D graphics, Photoshop, Photography and Web Design. http://www.secondpicture.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:20:03 +0300 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:19:31 +0300 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com From now on my new 3D tutorials will be published in PolybonBlog. It's my new 3d blog devoted to 3ds Max, inspiring renders, and free textures. http://www.polygonblog.com/ Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:00:00 0300 This is my first space effect tutorial. The tutorial covers the creation of a 3D planet render in 3DS MAX. Everything about modeling, texturing, lighting, and rendering is explained step by step. You won't need any textures with this tutorial since all materials use procedural maps only. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/3d/3d_planet_render.html 78879E85-6626-4BD7-A452-E4F06794B785 Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 0300 This is a tutorial about Photoshop workflow with an HDR image. The whole process from merging the photos to tone mapping is explained in detail. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/photography/photoshop_hdr.html F360F707-816A-4708-926B-F954AAA5BA5B Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 0300 In this HDR tutorial I concentrate in tone mapping in Photomatix. I show a real life example how to process an HDR image in Photomatix Pro. Besides the tone mapping I do some preprocessing and postprocessing in Photoshop. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/photography/tone_mapping.html 9668919E-3F10-4396-878F-1F03AC62DC0A Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 0300 In this HDR tutorial I discuss photographing for HDR images. Firstly I talk about suitable photography gear and then I discuss the actual photography process. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/photography/hdr_how_to.html EFD1E5CD-6398-4469-98E9-E210AAA6D3CE Sat, 14 Feb 2009 00:00:00 0300 In this HDR photography tutorial I describe the process of HDR photography. The process starts from photography and ends with tone mapping. Additionally I talk about the downsides of HDR photography. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/photography/hdr_tutorial.html 9423BB54-5D0E-4660-864D-31F8DA3FD04F Mon, 9 Feb 2009 00:00:00 0300 In this photography tutorial I answer the question: What are HDR photos? This is my first article in the HDR photography series. In the following weeks I will be writing articles / tutorials about photographing HDR, creating HDR photos and tone mapping HDR photos in Photoshop and Photomatix. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/photography/hdr_photography.html 468B0C70-2B0E-435D-9270-FEDF7F9CD40D Sun, 1 Feb 2009 00:00:00 0300 In this tutorial we're going to create a horizontal CSS navigation menu. First we are going to create a HTML list by using Unordered List (ul) and List Item (li) elements. Then we are going to style the list with CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to the form of a horizontal navigation menu like in the picture on the left. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/web_design/css_ul_li_horizontal_css_menu.html 24887655-DC4E-493A-B5F3-C24B1D717434 Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 0300 In this Photoshop effect tutorial I cover the creation of several different light and glow effects in Photoshop. The effects include smoke, light trails, sparkles, stars and bokeh effects. Luckily each of these effects is pretty simple to create in Photoshop. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/digital_image_processing/light_and_glow_effect_in_photoshop.html 73C2943F-E25F-45CA-8ABC-F8B35B5C76DC Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 0300 This tutorial has two purposes: A) To familiarize you with Mental Ray in 3DS MAX. B) To learn to create material for diamonds and to render them. The tutorials covers for example the use of Mental Ray's Final Gather and caustics effects. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/3d/mental_ray_in_3ds_max.html 69B4E6D8-FB26-4508-A569-C252B1627EDD Mon, 4 Aug 2008 00:00:00 0300 This tutorial explains how to create a realistic water surface in Adobe Photoshop. The water surface is created in a simple way by flipping the photo vertically and utilizing several different Photoshop filters and layer masks to create waves. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/digital_image_processing/photoshop_water_tutorial.html A3577CC4-6061-40BD-9C1C-F72C3DECD00B Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 0300 In 3D graphics cell shading (also called cartoon shading or toon shading) means a material / rendering method that produces to a result that looks like a hand drawn picture. The purpose of cell shading is to create a rendering that looks like cartoon or comic book style. In this cell shading tutorial I cover a method of doing cell shading in 3DS MAX with the scanline renderer. Of course cell shading can be done by using Mental Ray's Ink'n Paint material but in this tutorial I concentrate on a method that is very fast and works with both scanline renderer. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/3d/cell_shading.html 816F59FB-49FD-4237-9ECB-90CEE5CC7C17 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 0300 This tutorial is aimed for beginners who wish to learn to create 3D models of complicated objects. This is a tutorial for those who wish to practice a modeling technique before starting a more complicated project such as modeling a human head. In this tutorial we'll create a 3D model of a spoon like in the picture on the left. The spoon will be created by using a poly modeling and subdivision surface techniques. http://www.secondpicture.com/tutorials/3d/poly_modeling.html 7A56A18A-0451-446B-8C6A-B9D459FF0BD1 Fri, 6 Jun 2008 00:00:00 0300