The Professional Photoshop Book - Volume 7 2015

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FILL IN THE COLOURS

Create a new layer set the blend mode to Overlay. Select a soft brush with the

colour #54ce81. Now paint over parts of the masks, the cloak and the eyes in order to add

colours to the scene. Use a hard brush to colour the parts of the ornaments on the mask

but use a soft brush on the middle jewel to create the glow. To make it easier to paint

specfic parts, bring back selections from previous layer masks. Hold Cmd/Ctrl while

clicking on the layer mask.

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IM PORT THE FEATHERS

Import three different

feathers into the artwork. Place the

layers below the base mask group.

Use the same techniques as you did

when adding ornaments to create

shadows on each feather and on the

mage’s face. Use the Liquify tool

(Shift+Cmd/Ctrl+X) to edit the shapes

of the feather. Use other Transform

tools such as Warp to edit the

feathers further. After positioning the

three feathers, group the layers.

Duplicate the group, go to the

Transform tool, then Cmd/

Ctrl+T>Right-click>Flip Horizontal

and align it on the right side.

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PA INT THE HAIR

Create a new layer above the ornaments. Grab a 4px hard

brush. Select the colour using the Eyedropper tool (hold Alt/Opt) and

click on the original parts of the hair. Paint outside the mage’s face and

make sure to cover up some parts of the mask. When selecting

colours for hair, select up to three different tones. Use dark tones to

paint the base parts of the hair, midtones to create volume and finally

the highlights to react to the light source.

When selecting

colours to use

for painting hair, you

can select up to three

different tones;

namely dark, mid

and highlights

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