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By Andre Meca
(http://psd.fanextra.com/author/andre­oliveira/) , 26th
October, 2009, 10 Comments
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We have another awesome Photoshop casestudy for you today. Instead of a
traditional tutorial, this is a case­study of the steps involved in constructing the sleek
Photoshop piece ‘Explosion of Colors and Shapes’ by Andre Meca.

You can see how every detail was assembled, and how the composition developed
over time. I hope that this provides an interesting insight into this great designer! (http://designcuts.com)
Please let me know your thoughts on the piece and it’s construction.

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Note: A .psd is not included in the members area for this particular case­study, but
files may be available for future case­studies.

About the Author:
Andre is a talented photographer and artist. You can see more of his work at his DeviantArt Page
(http://heymeca.deviantart.com/) or Behance Page. (http://www.behance.net/heymeca?sel_memb=heymeca)

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10 Comments: LEAVE A COMMENT (#COMMENTFORM)

Vim (http://www.crearedesign.co.uk) October 27, 2009 at 8:54 am
(http://psd.fanextra.com/tutorials/designing/photoshop­case­study­
explosion­of­colors­and­shapes/#comment­7912)
great post, really like the creativity in all this it all comes together in the
final piece, i like the different pieces and stages that are all put in this
artwork, it would be great to see more case studies like this, and more
work from Andre Meca?

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Tom (http://www.psdfan.com) October 27, 2009 at 2:05 pm
(http://psd.fanextra.com/tutorials/designing/photoshop­case­study­
explosion­of­colors­and­shapes/#comment­7918)
Thanks Vim! I’ll definitely be posting more casestudies, and hopefully
Andre will be willing to share more of his awesome work with our
community   .

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Andre Oliveira (http://behance.net/heymeca) October 27, 2009 at 9:02
pm (http://psd.fanextra.com/tutorials/designing/photoshop­case­study­
explosion­of­colors­and­shapes/#comment­7925)
Hi there! Yes you can count on it!!!

Cheers!

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Shaw October 28, 2009 at 10:02 am
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explosion­of­colors­and­shapes/#comment­7933)
Loving these case studies Tom, Keep em coming. Very inspirational.
Great work Andrea. Maybe you could do an in depth tutorial for
PSDFAN? Even tho the pictures are self explanatory (for me anyway lol)
It would be great for the site and for photoshop learners around the
world.

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Micah October 30, 2009 at 4:58 am
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I really like the amount of creativity in this product. Modern art at its
pinical. However, as far as tutorials go there is no direction as to how the
effects are created, no image resource list, and the tutorial seems
backwards. Ending with the background and starting with front elements.
I would really like it if a step by step display of which blending modes,
brush sets, and images were used in this product. All the same amazing
layout and color scheme

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Andre Oliveira (http://behance.net/heymeca) October 31, 2009 at 10:45
am (http://psd.fanextra.com/tutorials/designing/photoshop­case­study­
explosion­of­colors­and­shapes/#comment­8009)
Hi there Micah and thank’s for the kind words!
The Step by Step is not gonna happen in this piece, cuz this work was
made for a contest, and i don’t have that time now to do it, so i’ve done
the case study in this one!
But in the future i’m gonna make descritive tutorials! As soon a i have
some time free!
Thank’s once again!

PS: you can see the image resource list here:
http://heymeca.deviantart.com/art/EXPLOSION­OF­COLORS­AND­
SHAPES­136243738 (http://heymeca.deviantart.com/art/EXPLOSION­OF­
COLORS­AND­SHAPES­136243738)

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Su (http://www.4ucreated.co.uk) November 4, 2009 at 7:56 pm
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Amazing and inspiring work. The composition is great! Thanks for
sharing.

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matt January 16, 2010 at 10:52 am
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good job, Thnx:)!!!

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