Downloads

On this page you’ll find working files for my tutorial posts and some other more or less useful things, such as post processing workarounds or wallpapers.

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Web Stuff

Download: Snowflock  Snowflock
» 14.1 KiB - 949 hits - 31.March.2008
A small script to add “snow” to your homepage.

Tutorials

Download: Tutorial File - Spice Up An Ordinary Shot  Tutorial File - Spice Up An Ordinary Shot
» 2.6 MiB - 1,437 hits - 31.March.2008
working file for the tutorial mentioned here: http://www.xoverip.info/archives/96

Software

Download: JPG compressor  JPG compressor
» 719 KiB - 586 hits - 31.March.2008
A small and handy JPG compressor with resize and EXIF support. Options to add frames and ©-mark. Pretty self-explanatory. For WIN-XP.

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Spicing Up an Ordinary Shot

Well, it happens very often that you take some cool photographs and they look cool in your camera display and when you’re back home and look at them on your screen, they’re pretty flat and not so vibrant. In the next steps I’ll show you how you can spice up such an image. splash

The work mentioned below can be done with any image editing software which supports layer techniques and layer blending modes. Adobe Photoshop is my choice but you can do this with Gimp or PaintShop Pro as well. Please keep in mind that in Gimp or PaintShop Pro the blending modes have different names. Please consult your manual or grab the internet for appropriate instructions.

Note: click on the thumbnails to get full size images (lightbox)

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The Making of “VT’s Escape from Sin City”

Today we start with a tutorial to a composite image in „Sin City“ style.
You will find below all the steps I did to achieve the results shown here or here.VT

All steps shown below do not require any special 3rd party filters or other gimmicks, just the built-in features delivered with Adobe Photoshop and an intermediate level of knowledge about using Adobe Photoshop.

Note: click on the thumbnails to get full size images (lightbox)

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The Making of “Cool MoFo VT” :-) (name by Blizzard)

I have posted one image at Vazaar in the theme “In Your Face” and Craig Martin asked for a tutorial how this Image has been created. I won’t go too deep into details, because I think most of you are familar with the basics of photoshop, with terms like blending mode oder using brushes to paint with light or using the standard filters provided by Adobe with Photoshop CS 2.

So here you go :-)

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