I created a fake light table. Beats buying one! I turned it into a fake magazine page too.

Energy In Art by Dave Hodgkinson | Make Your Own Book

Energy In Art by Dave Hodgkinson | Make Your Own Book

Energy In Art by Dave Hodgkinson | Make Your Own Book

Ive got two books ready for sale at

http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1733706

This is a photoart book.

and another at

http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/1245743

This is a portrait folio book

A custom brush made into a gear shape, then used to clone stamp it onto a layer with changed brush dynamics, and with a drop shadow added. A textured surface was dragged underneath and the light direction of the drop shadow was changed to match the texture light source.

A combination of 3D effects where I told photoshop to create a 3D mesh of an image, copied it 5 times then superimposed it over a background. The background a was a photo of cabbages, with a filter effect to 'find edges', and then a hue and saturation shift with a radial blur zoom. Phew. File size at 300ppi = 520Mb PSD file.

Storm over Brisbane