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Damn You, Art School

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It takes more than a good education to succeed in a any field. It takes real-world experience to learn the practical lessons they don’t teach in school. And if you’re a creative pro it takes a great set of tools to use so you can get the best results for the least amount of time, money, and effort.

Countdown to PePcon

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One of my jobs as Editor in Chief of InDesign Magazine is to find and send out an InDesign Tip of the Week to email subscribers. And after more than a decade of using and teaching InDesign, I know that the best tips aren’t necessarily the super-nerdy obscurities. That’s why I try to find tips that could help the greatest number of InDesign users.

3D Printing from Photoshop

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3D printing is the technology of the year, but few people realise you can create printable objects directly inside Photoshop CS6. There’s no need for complex and arcane CAD programs, and you don’t have to master the intricacies of Nurbs and B-splines: Photoshop has a powerful tool set that’s easy to use and which generates solid, printable objects.

In this workthrough we’ll look at how to make a replacement pawn for a chess set. Not only will we model it directly in Photoshop, we’ll do so directly from a photograph of one of the original pawns.

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