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TIP:
Computers, ram, hard drives, floppy disk, freeware, software, hardware and
underwear, all technical things (except the underwear), and all can do great
things for you. The key words here are "for you." you are the
artist with an idea and a mental image of what you want to create. Understand
what these things can do technically, and make them do what you want. Too
many computer artists rely on that one button, filter or plug-in to create
an effect, it's not really what they wanted, but it's close so they let
it go. Artists should not quit until the image in front of them matches
what they see in there minds eye.
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work was done on the hair, using the brush and airbrush tools, and painting
as you would a traditional painting, being sure to keep a nice hair texture
(notice the highlight on the bangs). Guides were used to help straighten
the bangs and shape the head.
Dark eye makeup was added to a new layer. Only reason for a new layer
is the ease of revisions. This was painted with the brush and pencil tools.
Needed to make the light source on the face match the lighting of the
body. To do this, the lasso tool was used to draw a selection on the left
side (your left) of her face. The original photo of the model was referred
to as a general guide for how the light hit, but we used a softer version
of that lighting. After the selection was made and feathered by about
20 pixels, it was saved (select-save selection, make sure new channel
is chosen and click OK) and more work was done on it in the channel. Switched
to the channels palette and selected the channel that was just created.
Using a combination of tools, the selection was lightened and feathered
as needed. Selected the layers palette, and made a new layer and put it
above the face layer, then loaded the selection and filled with black.
Switched layer from normal mode to overlay and adjusted the transparency
until it looked right (looked or looks right is a technical term that
means, it looks right).
Briefly, other alterations made at this stage, lift and separate the bra,
add cleavage, use the dodge and burn tools to adjust values and trim waist.
TIP:
The dodge and burn tools could be the gray scale artists best friend.
They lighten and darken the image without changing the basic textures.
Using these tools with color is more complex since they not only lighten
and darken but also change the saturation of the color.
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