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Snape
10-26-2006, 02:55 PM
Hi,

Im newish to painting in photoshop, I would usually paint for real for this kind of thing and realise this needs a lot of improvement. I think ive gone about it all wrong.

Some of the work Ive seen seems to be built up in layers nice and logically. I cant seem to get away from either a too contrasty image (by painting with burn and dodge brushes) or too flat by using the standard brushes.

Can anyone see what I mean on this image.

Would love some advice on this and would like to use this image as an educational piece to learn some new techniques.

Thanks in advance

Spencer

http://www.spencercarpenter.co.uk/forum_images/dragon01.jpg
vivien82
10-28-2006, 01:12 PM
yes i see what you mean. that's exactly the great thing about layers; if you paint brushes in "normal" mode you can always duplicate that layer and multiply, overlay, lighten, darken, do whatever you think looks best based on your needs. i personally would avoid painting most of my painting with dodge and special mode brushes, unless we're talking about a specific area of course. you risk not being able to fix it later whereas with several layers you can switch and try out different effects. i hope that helped, i'm kind of in a rush. by the way i really like the scales on this dragon !
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