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3D Cube Effect In Photoshop
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Creating a 3D cube
Create a new document, 1000×1000 (I usually use this resolution) white background.
Using the rectangular marquee tool, create a square and fill it with gradient. I used Linear gradient,

#0562ff to white. Right click and select “Layer via copy”.
Press Crtl/Cmd+T to enter free-transform mode. Right click (or Command+Click on Mac) when the dropdown menu

appears, select SKEW. Click on the right middle square and drag up until you get your desired angle. Press Enter(Return on Macintosh) to apply the transformation. Duplicate the layer.
Enter free transform again (Ctrl/Cmd+t) Right click and this time select FLIP HORIZONTAL. Drag out the copy to the left. Hold down the shift key to keep the baselines aligned. You may also want to make this side a bit thinner by clicking the left middle square (node) and drag it in a little
bit.
Create a new layer and make another square and fill it with the same gradient, this time make the
lightest color at the bottom left.
This time while in the free transform mode… when you right click(Cmd click on the Mac) select DISTORT drag each corner until you get a good match. Be sure the corners fit nice and snug. This step will take a bit of practice to master.
Go to Image>Adjustments>Levels or just pres CTRL+L (Cmd+L on the Mac) to bring up the Levels dialogue. Move the middle slider to the right to darken up the mid-tones. Repeat for the left side. This step adds more realistic lighting to the cube. Do the same for the layer that contains the top
of the cube.
A complete cube. Don’t limit yourself to just cubes. You can use this effect for all kinds of shapes. You can even construct a cube out of pictures. Just use images instead of the gradients. For example, I took a personal photo, I made it square, and with CTRL+T and distort I put it over the cube, than I changed the blending layer mode to “Luminosity”. You can play around as long as you like, until you reached the desired

effect.

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Changing A Photo To Look Hand Drawn
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Hand drawn car
Open an image of a car. This tutorial applies very well to people also, but I advise you to have a car photo for starting.
First of all, duplicate the original layer and desaturate it so that it has no color by hitting Shift+Ctrl+U (Mac: Shift+Command+U) or go to Image>Adjustments>Desaturate.
Duplicate the desaturated layer and rename it Layer 1. Now, with it selected, go to Filter>Blur>Smart Blur

and use these settings: Radius:100 Treshhold:100 Best Quality and Edge Only. Click OK and than invert the layer by hitting CTRL+I (command+I on Macintosh).
Still on this layer, apply a Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur with a radius of 5 and set its Blending Mode to Hard Light (which can by done in the upper left corner of the Layers Palette).
Duplicate the ‘Desaturated’ layer, rename it to “Layer 2″, and move it over “Layer 1″. Now go Stylize>Emboss and use these settings: Height:2 and Amount 120%. Hit OK and set the layer’s blending mode to Hard light.
Again, duplicate the desaturated layer and move it over the layer 2 and rename it to “layer 3″. Apply the Filters>Blur>Smart Blur filter once again but this time use: Radius:20 Treshold:100 and Best quality, Edges only. Click OK and invert the layer, then set it’s blending mode to “Multiply” and opacity 80%. Your image should look like this:
Once again, duplicate the “Desaturated” layer, rename it to Layer 4 and move it above “layer 3″. Apply the Filter>Stylize>Glowing Edges filter with these settings: Edge Width:2, Edge Brightness:10 and Smoothness:7. Click OK then invert the layer (CTRL+I or command+I on Mac).
Duplicate layer 4 and rename it Layer 5. On layer 5 apply aFilter>Blur>Gaussian Blur with a radius of 10-15 (I remind you that these values are not fixed, they depend on what would you like, the resolution of the image, etc). This blur will give the image the shaded look. Set the blending mode
to multiply and opacity about 30-50% (play until satisfied). Your image should look like this:
Let’s colorize the image. Duplicate the original layer and move on top of all layers. Set it’s blending mode

to “Hard light”. Duplicate the original layer again, set it on top of all layers once again and set it’s

blending mode to color. Here you are: your car drawn.

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