James Qu

Purely out of curiousity, I tried to turn a photo taken in daylight condition, into a night-scene version, inspired by the famous Cartoon/Movie Sin City. Continue reading »

I was looking for some design inspirations on the net and I bumped into the Diablo III website. I  was intrigued by the design of the title text and I thought: what happen if I add something extract to it? What will the end result like if I apply a cracked texture on top of the text?

So I went ahead and experiment in Photoshop, and here is the final result: Continue reading »

I was exploring Photoshop tools such as the selection tool, various image adjustment tools and various filters and layer style effects.

Personally speaking, the best way I found in terms of learning Photoshop is through manipulating photos. I go grab a photo off the interent, take a look at some inspirational articles about design and apply my own creativity into it. Continue reading »

I was experimenting different layer blending effects and testing a few filters in Photoshop this afternoon, and came up with this set of designs. Continue reading »

Sometimes I love having a play with Photoshop with its different tool sets. I let my imagination run loose and see if where it will take me to. I also love exploring various layer styles in Photoshop and trying out different filters. Continue reading »