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Pinocchio

I just found this collage in my archives which I made a few years ago. I don’t remember showing it to anybody and I forgot that I’ve made it.
I call it Pinocchio. If I hadn’t come across the disc, Pinocchio would have sunk into oblivion.
This metamorphosis of a mannequin into a man was made in Photoshop by retouching photos of real people or by painting in some areas. This image doesn’t have a specific purpose – it is just to make one smile, or shudder, or…

Bigger picture you can see here.

Gradient Transparency in Illustrator

Video Tutorial: How to Make a Gradient Transparency in Illustrator
This video shows three methods of creating a gradient to “nothing” in Adobe Illustrator (the methods are; blending modes, “Fade to Black” which is a function implemented in CS4, and using opacity masks). There is another way of creating transparent gradients by blends (different from blending modes), but I’ve decided to not include it in this video. It will be a separate one.
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