So on a dvd tutorial i watched, the person blended colors by making paint strokes and then blended the strokes with the backround so it looked great!
But the thing is that when I do it, it looks really ugly! I do it like this: I make a paint stroke, and then I use smudge on it, and it doesn’t blend with the backround at all! It just looks like the paint stroke just got blurred, that’s all. Help!
Fast way to blend colors.
xX_eXiGe_Xx
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moiremusic
#2
Photoshop lacks a little in the area of blending paint strokes the way, say, Painter does, but there are a few things you could try. First, make sure you’re using a painterly brush when using that smudge tool, the speckled ones that look like the end of a thick paint brush. Also, you will want to select the “Direction” setting in Brushes Palette/Shape Dynamics/Angle Jitter/Control. While you’re in there, tweaking the Scattering settings just a tiny bit can help with realism and break up some of that blurred look.
alenah
#3
hi, I´d second exactly what Russel said …
in case you are interested, you may have a look at the possible settings that may help a bit (incl. palette settings & screen-captured behavior “in action”) in a little tutorial I did some time ago (and posted in my sketchbook, link here) …
perhaps this may be of some help, too …
cheers, a.
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