Painting Nemo In Adobe Photoshop
Painting Nemo In Adobe Photoshop
This tutorial will guide in a step-by-step procedure on how to paint the character Nemo from Pixar’s animated movie Finding Nemo. We will use a simple outlined blue print and the above picture as a reference. This tutorial does not require a massive amount of skill, but requires you to take great attention to the little details. Our other tutorial on Basic Painting in Photoshop should be a good exercise for you to start with if you have never tried painting in Photoshop.
Start a new Photoshop canvas, set the width to 800px, the height to 600px,
the resolution to 300px/inch and you can leave the background colour as white, we will change that one later.
Now that you have the canvas ready, use the Paint Bucket Tool (Hit ‘G’ on your keyboard) to colour the background, I have used the colour # 304987 to colour it in dark blue. You will then have to create a new layer and name it Blue Print, we will use this layer as a guide for our painting. Copy and paste the image below into your canvas.
Create a new layer and name it “Face”, this layer and will hold the eyes and the mouth of Nemo. Use the “Magnetic Lasso Tool” (Hit “L” on your keyboard) to select the eyes and mouth. The Magnetic Lasso Tool is easy to use, simply move the move the mouse pointer over the outlines of the eye and the mouth, your selection lines should automatically snap to the outlines. Start first with one of the eyes, once the whole shape is selected, hold shift when making your first click on the other shape to start another selection object. Once you have the two eyes and the mouth selected, use the Paint Bucket Tool to colour them in white.
We will now create another layer that we will use to colour the body of Nemo, name this layer Body. Use the Magnetic Lasso Tool to select the body outline this time, colour the selected object using this shade of orange FF642A. You should notice that this covered up the face features that we made a while ago, to make these appear above the face, you will have to drag the Body layer below the Face layer in the Layers panel. Just simply pull the Body layer down one level. You should get something similar to the picture below.
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WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 released
WordPress 2.6 Beta 1 released
Ryan Boren, lead developer of WordPress, announced on his blog that the first beta of WordPress 2.6 is available for download according to him,
The features we slated for 2.6 have been in the repository for awhile now, so we’re going to start our beta cycle in preparation for a mid-July release. Get Beta 1 here 2.6 isn’t a big release like 2.5 was, but it has a few new features for you.
- Post Revisioning
- A “Press This” bookmarklet for tumblelog style quick posting
- Caching of static files with Gears for faster Admin page loads
- A new and improved image editing dialog that offers lots of control over the images in your posts
- Theme previewing as seen on WordPress.com
- Built-in word counting in the post editor
- The ability to disable remote publishing for the security conscious
- XML-RPC API for changing blog options
- Better SSL support for the Admin
- Hierarchy-aware paging in the Manage Pages and Manage Categories admin pages.
- The ability to relocate your content directory
- The ability to move wp-config.php out of your web root
- Drag-and-drop sortable galleries
- Customizable default avatars
- Bulk delete, activate, and deactivate for plugins
- Check box range selection with shift-click
- TinyMCE 3.1.0.1 with lots of bug fixes
- jQuery 1.2.6 with some nice performance improvements
- jQuery UI 1.5
- Lots of bug fixes and performance improvements
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Ever Watchful
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Translucent Dream
A dark theme for WordPress 2.1+. Includes Gravatar support for WP 2.5 down to 2.1. “Before the Storm” header image courtesy of MoodFlow.com
Twilight Crown
This fun theme is modeled after the ‘Dimensions’ Joomla template and features its header images (origin unknown). It also features a transparent header section and uses Aaron Robbins‘ Time Background Function to rotate the header images based on your webserver’s time. (see header.php for notes on how to adjust this!)
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