*Andrei-Oprinca

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Dramatic Illumination - Photoshop Tutorial

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jun 24, 2012, 11:46:16 PM
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The new video version of one of my latest tutorials. This one is a bit more advanced because I got requests for some more advanced stuff so here it is. I have a new even more advanced tutorial coming soon. Enjoy. Don't forget to visit my website if you like this tutorial.

My website: PSD Box

Text version of this tutorial: Dramatic Lighting Tutorial

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Depositphotos Contest winners

Journal Entry: Mon Jun 11, 2012, 2:00 AM

I just announced the three winners of the depositphotos design contest who won a free 20 days subscription from Depositphotos. See the winners and some of the contest entries here:

Contest Winners

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Design Contest

Journal Entry: Thu May 31, 2012, 2:10 PM

On the first contest organized by PSD Box, you will have the opportunity to win a 20 days free subscription on Depositphotos with 10 free images per day so that's a total of 200 free stock images. We give away 2 free subscriptions.

Deadline June 10, 2012

All you have to do is create an artwork and send it to me.

More information here:
Depositphotos Contest – Win 200 Free Stock Images

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Time Bandit - Tutorial

Journal Entry: Mon May 21, 2012, 3:51 AM

In this tutorial I will show you how to create an abstract artwork in Photoshop by combining black and white and colors. This kind of technique can be used to create beautiful abstract artworks and minimalistic wallpapers.
Enjoy.

View tutorial on my website -> Click here

Stock used

Tree branch: [link]
Humming bird: [link]
Clock: [link]
Brushes for the background texture: [link]
Watercolor brushes: [link]
Fractals: [link]
Paint Tossing: [link]

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Body Retouch technique Overview

Journal Entry: Sun May 6, 2012, 12:29 AM

This is a quick overview of the process I follow when I make body retouching. I will show you how I use the Mixer Brush Tool, How I apply make up and how I change the illumination using filters and adjustment layers combined with blend modes.

Result

Image used:

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Colorful Portrait Effect Tutorial

Journal Entry: Tue May 1, 2012, 1:30 PM

I'm back with another tutorial. I was wondering if you guys are interested in tutorials. Should I post them or not? I'll soon make a poll. Meanwhile here is another video.

Image by Rick Berk www.rickberk.com (you can apply this to pretty much any portrait, try to have a model with black hair though.)

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Pro Quick Tip: Masking Hair using Blend Modes

Journal Entry: Sat Apr 28, 2012, 12:49 PM

Mask hair in a blink of an eye keeping all the detail an without using complex masking techniques with this pro tip. This method works for images with solid white background but it can save a lot of time. Enjoy

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The Fallen Angel Tutorial

Journal Entry: Fri Apr 20, 2012, 3:16 AM

Step by step text tutorial on my website: The Fallen Angel - Manipulation Tutorial.

Hope you like it.

Stock credits:
Female model: [link]
Foreground: [link]
Background: [link]
Wings: [link]
Statue: [link]
Hair: [link]

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Listening to: Lagarto Amarillo - Dejarse la piel
Reading: Nothing
Watching: Myself from a new perspective

Simply For You - Manipulation Tutorial

Journal Entry: Sat Apr 7, 2012, 1:06 PM

Listening to: Pryda - F12
Reading: Nothing
Watching: How I'm being left behind
Playing: Foul

This is another manipulation tutorial I made for the readers of my website. The text version is only available on my website but you can see the video here as well.

Give me a lama if you like it, hehe just joking, do what you want.

View text version+video on my website: [link]

Stock used

Female model: [link]
Background: [link]
Rain Brushes: [link]

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My Burning Wishes Tutorial

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Mar 11, 2012, 2:20:38 PM
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A few weeks ago I published a deviation called Burning Wishes. Then I wrote a text tutorial which was pretty successful. I've seen a lot of cool results with different tweaks. I also made a video tutorial so that people could see how I did certain things.

Below you have the video tutorial as well as a link to the text tutorial and the links to the stock images used. Thank you all for your feedback and support.

Text tutorial:

English Version: Burning Wishes Tutorial - EN
Spanish Version:Burning Wishes Tutorial - ES

Stock used

Female model: [link]

Crow: [link]

Optical Flare: [link]

Particles: [link]

3D Spheres: [link]

Feathers: [link]

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Looking for a collaborator $$$

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jan 27, 2012, 8:39:06 AM
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I'm looking for 1 max 2 people that want to collaborate with tutorials on my website. First of all, I need serious people with good Photoshop skills and good level of english.

I'm not looking for a simple author but someone that really wants to be part of the project and a person that likes design and likes to share cool tips and techniques.

I'm looking for good photo manipulators, abstract designs like you see below, and things like that (I would like to see your gallery) See the artworks below to know the skill level I'm looking for:

:thumb281109208:

You'll not be doing this for free of course but I want someone that first of all likes design and wants to be part of the project. My website has currently about 4000 visitors a day and it started to overwhelm me. That's why I'm looking for some serious long term collaborators to make a team.

If you're interested, post a comment

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New Web Design

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jan 16, 2012, 6:27:46 AM
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The new web design is up and running. I've been using another design for about a year but with the new design it's easier to find things because now the frontpage is more static and the tutorials are separated into categories so it's easier to find what you want.
If you want to try my tutorials feel free to visit the website. I also have a video series called "Photoshop for Beginners" where I teach the very beginners.

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Photoshop Tutorial for 1 Year Premium Membership

Thu Nov 25, 2010, 1:20 PM

As some of my watchers already know. I have a website dedicated to Photoshop tutorials and other design resources. The website is called PSD Box and you can visit it here: [link]

I use to write Photoshop tutorials on the website (see my gallery or my website for some examples), but right now I'm kinda busy and I thought of making a contest here and find people willing to write good photoshop tutorials for me.

The Contest

I'm basically looking for artworks made with Photoshop. Your artwork should fit on one of the categories listed below.

Photomanipulation

- abstract

- conceptual

- fantasy

- emotional

- Typography effects

- cool photo effects

- etc

If you still don't see it clear, below you have a few examples of what kind of artworks I'm looking for:

EXAMPLES

:thumb186494889: :thumb159137648:

You can submit an artwork that you already have on your galleryor design something from scratch. In any case, you will have to write a tutorial of how you made that artwork and provide links to all stock images used.

Rules

1) To participate in this contest, send me a note with a link to your artwork made with Photoshop and I will add it to a folder where I collect all the entries to this contest. Send me only your best works, I will not accept all the rubbish.

2) You can send me as many artworks as you want but if the quality is not good I will note you back to let you know that I rejected that particular artwork.

3) The size of your artwork must be at least 800px wide. The dimensions and resolution of the artwork will not be taken in consideration when picking the winners.

4) Uncredited artworks will not be accepted, you must include the links to all resources you used because they must also appear on the tutorial. Always credit the authors and ask for permission.

How to write the tutorial

The tutorial must be written in english and you must provide all links to all the stock images and resources used to create your artwork. You can use stock images from DA, or from any other source as long as you have permission from the author. You can also use stock images from premium sites like Depositphotos, Dreamstime, Shutterstock but include the links.

The tutorial must contain steps and images of each step and must be written preferably in html or Microsoft Word. You can see an example on my website: [link]

You will have to send me the tutorial and images of the tutorial so that I can publish it on my website. You will only get the premium membership once the tutorial is written.

The tutorial must not be published on any other website.

Winners

The winners are picked by me. The criteria used to pick the winners is mainly the quality and originality of the artwork. Good looking arworks have a the best chanches of winning the contest.

There will be three winners and three prizes.

1st Place - 1 year premium membership

2nd Place - 3 months premium membership

3rd Place - 3 months premium membership

If you have any questions about the rules, or anything else or if you want to make any suggestions please leave a comment.

If you think I forgot to mention something, please post a comment

Do not submit your entries here, the will not be accepted. Send me a note with the link to your artwork.

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Just went Premium

Sat Nov 20, 2010, 5:51 PM

Hello everybody. I just went premium. I wanted to see what features are available and taking advantage of this great offer I purchased a 6 months premium membership for 7$.

I will make some polls and include some of my favorite deviations on future journal entries.

At the moment here you have a few ones:

:thumb140113212:

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My brushes on Advanced Photoshop Issue 71

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jul 31, 2010, 12:29:47 PM
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I just received the Advanced Photoshop issue 71 which include my Cosmic Lights brushes set ([link])
I was contacted by many photoshop magazines from Germany and UK to let them include my brushes on their CDs and I decided to purchase one of the issues that included my brushes. Awesome.

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PSD Box - back online

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jul 16, 2010, 9:26:15 AM
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Mood: Depressed
Listening to: Trance Around the World - A&B

Update: 16.07.2010

I just re-opened the website. I recovered some articles and tutorials. I will publish the missing tutorials in the following weeks.

____________________________________________________

Today I though I will have a heart attack. This morning I received an email from the company that hosts my website, PSD Box. This is the email they sent me:

_{Hello,

The account [link] is terminated due to violation of AUP.

Please refund remaining fees for period unused (subject to a minimum charge of 1 month service).

Don't hesitate to contact us if you require any further assistance.}

I just purchased "a better" hosting plan with 200GB of space because my website was getting bigger. All in all, the space that I used until this day was about 400MB out of 200GB.

I was in shock and I was wondering why the hell they closed my website. I asked what exactly I did wrong and this was their response.

_{Dear Andrei Florin Oprinca,

Please check our Acceptable Use Policy on the following link:
[link]

Multimedia files are defined as any graphics, audio, and video files. HostSo's Web Hosting accounts are not to be used for the purposes of distributing and storing unusual amount of multimedia files. Any Web site whose disk space usage for storing the multimedia files exceed 70% of its total usage, either in terms of total size or number of files, will be deemed to be using unusual amount of multimedia files.

The account [link] is terminated due to violation of AUP, we are sorry to advise you that we cannot provide you the backups.

Should you require any further assistance, please feel free to contact us at anytime.

Regards,

Amalea

HostSo Billing Team}

So, in other words, this is the end of PSD Box. I was planing to add some awesome tutorials and resources there but it seems like it will not gonna happen. I still have the domain name until january or february 2011 but I will not remake the website. It's too much work that has been lost. I will not do it alone. If somebody wants to help me rebuild it it's welcomed, I will pay all hosting and stuff but I can't write articles and provide resources all by myself, not again, it's too much stress and too much work for a single person.

Damn, I invested so much time on that website

This was my last response to the hosting company

_{Well, that service is a shit in any case. I've never seen that before on any hosting company. What really hurts me is that I can't get a damn backup of my files. Those files are mine no mater what's you policy, you can't just delete people's files. I can't believe they didn't even make a backup for at least 24 hours. Its unacceptable. I'm gonna write a review on all web web hosting review sites. I'm so fucking pissed.
Have a nice fucking day cause I'm not.}

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I opened my own brushes website StarBrushes.net

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jun 29, 2010, 12:13:33 PM
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Mood: Daily Needs

I just opened my brushes website. I want to collect only the best brushes not only for Photoshop but also for Gimp, Paint Shop Pro and Illustrator.

Users are able to submit their own brushes and upload them using a submission form.

The difficult part will no be to get people to know the website and get users to upload their brushes.

If you want to show off your brushes and share them with the world, you are welcome. I would like to have as many contributors as possible.

This is the website -> www.starbrushes.net

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Brushes website: CSS and PHP helpers needed

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jun 23, 2010, 6:43:10 PM
Journals / Art News / Resources

Well I want to open a really cool brushes website, not only for Photoshop but actually also for GIMP, Paing Shop Pro, and Illustrator.

I will use Wordpress as platform, that's why I need somebody to help me customize the site template. I already have a couple of templates but since I don't know CSS and PHP, only by trial and error it's hard to work.

I already have the hosting and domain name selected, I just have to purchase them but until I have the actual site ready, I will not buy them.

The website will be something like qbrushes.net with submission form so that everybody will be able to upload his/her brushes.

If somebody is interested in helping me out and be part of the project that would be great. I already have a photoshop tutorials website here: [link]

At the moment, I can't pay anything, maybe 10 or 15$ for somebody that would help me with the PHP codes and styling. The default template will remain 90% the original, I only need to add a few thing, to adapt it. so that's not much work to do. With some basic skills of PHP, it can be done because I already made some editing on another template myself.

So, If somebody wants to help on the coding and customizing part of the job a swell as on managing the site, please contact me.

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Deviant of the Week - 001

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Jun 3, 2010, 9:19:54 AM
Journals / Art News / Digital Art

Every week I choose a deviant with great designs and I feature it on my website: [link]

This week, the featured deviant is Magdalena Smokrovic (aka esstera) a truly skillful artist. Her designs really impressed me from the first time I saw them and her technique of combining photo manipulation and digital painting is amazing. What is also amazing is the amount of details that she puts into her works and the quality of the finished images. The paintings that she makes are the best ones I’ve seen, maybe because I also like the themes that she chooses for them. I hope you like her artworks, it was really hard for me to choose 10 images from her gallery because they are all great. Visit her account for more images.

Esstera
Here are a few of her great designs, combination of digital painting and photo manipulation.

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Authors Needed

by *Andrei-Oprinca, Apr 2, 2010, 4:02:46 PM
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Hello everybody. As probably some of you already know,I have my own webside dedicated to design resources and tutorials: www.psdbox.com It's growing pretty fast actually but I would like to have more content. If you want to promote yourself this could be your chance.

I need people to write tutorials about design, blogs, SEO, photoshop...
or make compilations of resources from internet and publish posts.

There are some benefits involved. For more info check:[link]

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Journal History

Jan 18, 2013 Devious Journal Entry
Nov 25, 2012 New Photoshop Tutorial
Nov 11, 2012 WIN 1 YEAR DA MEMBERSHHIP
Nov 2, 2012 Advanced Vampire Effect - Video Tutorial
Jul 20, 2012 Hard Light Effect (Video Journal)
Jun 24, 2012 Dramatic Illumination - Photoshop Tutorial
Jun 11, 2012 Depositphotos Contest winners
May 31, 2012 Design Contest
May 21, 2012 Time Bandit - Tutorial
May 6, 2012 Body Retouch technique Overview
May 1, 2012 Colorful Portrait Effect Tutorial
Apr 28, 2012 Pro Quick Tip: Masking Hair using Blend Modes
Apr 20, 2012 The Fallen Angel Tutorial
Apr 7, 2012 Simply For You - Manipulation Tutorial
Mar 11, 2012 My Burning Wishes Tutorial
Jan 27, 2012 Looking for a collaborator $$$
Jan 16, 2012 New Web Design
Nov 25, 2010 Photoshop Tutorial for 1 Year Premium Membership
Nov 20, 2010 Just went Premium
Jul 31, 2010 My brushes on Advanced Photoshop Issue 71

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Dramatic Illumination - Photoshop Tutorial

Depositphotos Contest winners

Contest Winners

Design Contest

Deadline June 10, 2012

Time Bandit - Tutorial

Stock used

Body Retouch technique Overview

Result

Colorful Portrait Effect Tutorial

Pro Quick Tip: Masking Hair using Blend Modes

The Fallen Angel Tutorial

Simply For You - Manipulation Tutorial

View text version+video on my website: [link]

Stock used

My Burning Wishes Tutorial

Text tutorial:

Stock used

Looking for a collaborator $$$

New Web Design

Photoshop Tutorial for 1 Year Premium Membership

Just went Premium

My brushes on Advanced Photoshop Issue 71

PSD Box - back online

I opened my own brushes website StarBrushes.net

Brushes website: CSS and PHP helpers needed

Deviant of the Week - 001

Authors Needed

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