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on my feet. Photoshop to me is like a brick to a bUilder.
I wo rk almost eXclusively With games companies

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these days, Who on the whole require detailed,
intricate and exciting imagery to surrOund
and encompass their Sites, so Photoshop
allows me to amalgamate their assets into
What are eSSentially very detailed collages. I
am Usually provided with miXed assets, like
characters With transparent backgrounds,
L " /t 5att/er ents environment renders, flat texture files and
OIL-- hical elem b- in truth, little else. It is USually my job to
. ds grap f ture we take all those loosely connected assets and
tcr ent that bin ood for a u roduce

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enables on:e main tool w;:s long as surrounds for the websites . lf you look at

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together t It is also t will be use parallel of. omes to the Natural Selection 2 example (www.
based PhotoshoP . often used In .ally when It c hniques. natura/selection2.cOm) I was given a
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an Intern ever, PhotoS important, hat mixes o. el but I don render of the corridor, one

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pixell HoW Is are equally technology t ctor and piX hoW I first of the Hive creature and a
and both :':eb in Flash that mixes I (black and flat texture of the organic'
produce . another so Ie for www.so graphic ta go Into (1). growth material. From here
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really use ments in Photo ve me the important: t
out, adding additional lighting
draw the e e rimary step ga it IS the mo
hite). ThiS p .mple step but effects and creating a Who le scene
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This is a rathersl to thrust the USer deep into a very
atmospheric webpage, making
them feel as though they were in
the game itself. The core interface
elements Were Constructed from
pieces chopped out of the corridor
render and far doorway.
So as you can see, without
Photoshop, I'd be finished, as it is this
tool alone that allows me to create
these types of complex images and
I would never Consider using anything else. I think my
favourite finishing and effects tools Within Photoshop
would be adjustment layers, layer effects and blending
OPtions, as these can create some awesome light effects
to really tie a piece together.