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Learn how to draw a Mac network node sphere with this tutorial
If you've always wondered how to draw a "ball of nodes" as featured in a variety of Mac OS X icons, wonder no more: Mike Rundle of flyosity.com has written a tutorial to show you how using Photoshop.
Rundle discusses "spheric realism," the process of understanding the materials, reflectivity, and roundness of a sphere, and how to accurately illustrate it digitally.
Clever users can easily adapt the technique for Illustrator, Acorn, or many other compositing tools that feature blur and blending mode support.
Rundle also offers a PSD file containing the artwork with no strings attached.
Thanks Todd!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
L3 said 12:13PM on 1-05-2009
please don't try and tell me what to do with my life.
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josue salazar said 1:33PM on 1-05-2009
LOL
Jash Sayani said 2:51PM on 1-05-2009
Nice one.... I even have a tutorial on designing an iMac in 10 minutes from scratch!
Visit my blog: http://www.jashsayani.com
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steve said 10:35PM on 1-05-2009
This is a great tutorial! - I tried it out and came up with this -> http://attvcksmediablog.blogspot.com/
Thx TUAW for another helpful post.
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