Corey Barker creates some desktop art for his computer using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Author: Corey Barker
Corey is the newest education and curriculum developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He is a graduate of the Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota, Fl, with a degree in Illustration. Over the years, Corey has worked as a graphic artist in a variety of disciplines such as illustration, commercial design, large format printing, motion graphics, web design and photography. His expertise in Photoshop and Illustrator have earned him numerous awards in illustration, graphic design and photography. Using Photoshop since Version 2, his expertise and creativity have evolved exponentially with every new version, which makes Corey an invaluable addition to the NAPP team.
This is a pretty cool background.
People should also remember that when doing Japanese calligraphy (especially for a client), an important aspect is to make sure that the strokes are correctly applied. There is a correct technique for drawing Japanese and Chinese kanji.
While it may look alright to most people, those with Japanese/Chinese experience will immediately notice the inaccuracies so be careful!
恐ろしい !
Simple, Beautiful and Creative……Congrats!
thanks for everything
I especially liked that trick of using the Gradient Map to turn a color photo into black and white. Not really the main point of the tutorial, I know, but I tried it on a few of my photos, and it works great!
Thank you very much, an interesting and detailed tutorial. I have become addicted to making these wallpapers now!
I now have – HELP – in Korean as my wallpaper. Looks elegant! Thanks!
Nice tutorial. I personally would suggest that you use the pen tool to trace your characters for better accuracy and then apply the brush stroke to the path.
Thank you, Corey. It’s great how we can use the gradient and the overlay option mask to create this….
any way you could give me that texture, i like yours beter than the one i got!
Sooo cool! Love the effect. Some great tips in there, too. I don’t have Illustrator yet, but will be getting it in the new year. Looking forward to it more after seeing this.
That is not Japanese. It is Chinese!!!!!
Thanks for the tutorial and the new desktop picture! I’ll definitely stay tuned.
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thank you thank you very much. I learnt lot. specially ‘gradient map’. nice stuff.
Where did u get this texture??…i cant find it ><
nice simple and natural
it’s chinese! 想像力
Awww man, thanks for the tip with translation. I love your knowledge dude. You are awesome. Have a blessed journey.
you are a best
It’s a traditional Chinese language originate from China. However the Japanese “borrowed” some of the characters and used them in their own language as kanji since ancient time…
Yeah I hate it when people show all these Chinese words and say they’re Japanese. Even in Japanese they’re called Kanji, which literally means Chinese.
Sweet. I made some awesome wallpaper using this. My texture background was too busy, so I couldn’t set the characters to overlay and use opacity without it looking bad, but I left them pure white and it looks awesome!
actually 想象力 is Chinese not Japaneses !!