Drawing lessons - illustrated lesson notes for teachers and students

Painting tecnique and computer graphics -2

The first move was to scan it into

adobe photoshop and remove all

color. In other words convert it to a

'greyscale' format.

So I searched for a background that

might describe the nature of the war

the man fought. I wanted a stark,

riveting but an atmospheric scene. I

found what I wanted but it was tiny.

This was not necessarily a

disadvantage as I could repeat some

facial and clothing hues in the top

half of the background.

Next I applied contrast

and then converted it

back to 'RGB' or a 'color'

file since I nedded to add

color. I added color using

'color adjust' and

'variations'.

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