Turn any photo into a dot grid artwork with these Photoshop actions. You'll get great results with dots that change size. They get larger in brighter areas and smaller in darker areas. Free download available.
Preview of Final Results

Stock Photos
Here are the stock photos used for this tutorial. You can download the image through Stock Exchange by clicking on the images below. We used the highest resolution (unscaled) images available to write this tutorial. If you would like to follow this tutorial using the same settings we used, download the highest resolution (unscaled) images available.
Thanks to LeoSynapse for allowing the use of this image in this tutorial.
Thanks to Sh0dan for allowing the use of this image in this tutorial.
IMPORTANT: When working with any image in photoshop, always play things on the cautious side and make new layers for everything. This way, if you make a mistake, you won't have to start all over, but you might just have to re-do one layer, possibly saving you hours of work. Everything in this tutorial should be done on separate layers. This tutorial is split in two parts: Blender and Photoshop. I am not going to go over all the basics for Blender, because that could take all year. Instead, I would recommend you go to youtube and watch some tutorials from super3boy... he seems to know what he's doing, and I learned the basics from him. You might even be able to follow along without seeing any outside tuts, but I'm recommending them just in case.
FRINGE Promotional Wallpaper Tutorial – Part 1
Step 1 - Blender
In a new project file, you'll see the default cube.
Step 2 - Delete The Cube
Hit delete, and erase that sucker!
Step 3 - Text
Hit spacebar, and add text.


Step 4 - Change The View
Press and hold alt/option while clicking and draging with your mouse to change the view to something like this.
Step 5 - Add A Camera
Hit spacebar, and add a camera.

Step 6 - Add A Light
Hit spacebar, and add a lamp.



Step 7 - Add Another Light
Just like before, add another lamp, and move it behind the text and center it.

Step 8 - Add Another Light
Hit spacebar, and add another lamp.


Step 9 - Add Another Light
Hit spacebar, and add another lamp.


Step 10 - Prepare to Render
Things you want checked: Render tab, Premul, Size (Large enough for our photoshop wallpaper), PNG (instead of jpeg, because we want a transparent background), and RGBA (for transparency)
