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[DArcy1]

Hi Paul


I don't know about other people but I made a couple of custom PS brushes by hand painting a small cluster of wavelets and defining them as a brush. If you adjust the spacing you can cover a lot of canvas quickly. I had 3 or 4 versions to give some variety. You can see them in my portfolio painting "Serenity". For larger waves I used a brush with some roughness and painted them in one at a time. Never again....

Also, you can copy a layer of wavelets, adjust the brightness up and shift it up and too the right fractionally to get a "waves and shadow" effect.

D'Arcy

[pgill]

thanks for the tip...i've not really used custom brushes so it'll be fun to learn when I try it out.

the serenity piece is lovely...it absolutely lives up to it's title...relaxes me out just looking at it!

[DArcy1]

Custom brushes are the way to go, once you start they are addictive. Just make any old blob in black, erase bits at varying opacities, select it with the rectangle tool and go edit\define brush. Once you start fiddling with spacing, angle jitter, opacity and size set to pen pressure etc you get some really cool effects. There is a tutorial on CGTalk somewhere about it.

D.

P.s. thanks for the compliment on "Serenity" - it's so nice to know a piece has made an impact :)

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