Photoshop_User_July_2017

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Step 14: Add a new layer with Layer>New>Layer

and name this layer “Drawing.” Then with the

Brush tool still active, fly open the Tool Presets

found in the upper-left corner of the Options

Bar. Click on the Gear icon and, from the menu

that appears, click on the tool preset library

called DP Presets. Click Append in the resulting

dialog. Then select the DP Comic Inker preset.

This preset works particularly well if you’re using

a pressure-sensitive graphics tablet to vary the

thickness of the lines.

Step 15: Using the DP Comic Inker brush, sketch

in the main contours of the hand and other areas

where the photo is painted out. If you need

the original photo to be visible as a reference,

then click Shift-click on the Photo Group mask

thumbnail to temporarily disable it. Afterwards,

Shift-clicking it again will re-enable the mask.

Step 16: Add another new layer called “Shad-

ing,” and place it beneath the Drawing layer in

the Layers panel. In the Options Bar, reduce the

size of the current brush tip to 3 pixels and the

Opacity to 40%. Use shorter, quicker strokes to

create the shading effects in the natural shadow

areas of the drawn portions of the image.