Wherever I go for photoshop tutorials on the internet as of late, I see this fabulous tutorial and think to myself, "Wow, that would be a useful skill to add to my arsenal!" I then go to the tutorial and 90% of the work is in Cinema 4D, then touched up in illustrator, before being finalized in photoshop.

That's a Cinema 4D tutorial.

I am all for a touch of illustrator. Illustrator is the left hand compliment to a photoshop artist's right, it is to be expected to be used on occasion to provide support and vice versa. Yet if it exceeds about 1/3 Illustrator, that's not a photoshop tutorial anymore, that is a mixed application tutorial.

So when I see a tutorial that is making a vector in Illustrator and then almost all the work but a couple filters are in Cinema 4D, I get pretty livid. Cinema 4D is an entirely different breed of application and its near sole use does not a Photoshop tutorial make!

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