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Rendering the figure

Rendering the figure - Photoshop Tutorial

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Rendering the figure

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- [Instructor] Our illustration is already pretty colorful, but I'd like to put just a little bit more time into the design of our little creature here. There's only some very basic coloring here in the figure and we can make it look much cooler than that. Okay so the layer which contains the colors of my creature is already selected and I have locked the layer transparency so that I can work on just this one layer without painting over the edges. And I'm going to set the blend mode of the colors to normal just for a second to inspect the colors that we already have and in order to pick a few colors like this fur color here, so that I am able to use this color now on different parts of the creature. For example, the bright fur color should also go under the tail. And the tip of the tail should have the same bright color as the breast fur and the same is true, actually, for the inner parts of the ear, and I'm just painting these pretty freely. Here I can take advantage of the masks…

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