Retro Painting - 3
Well I think the basic concept is done now. Let's do a little bit of atmosphere. For this I recommend to use Soft basic round brush with such settings. + set overall brush flow to about 10 -12 %.
Use separate layer for this, so create one and GO.
Result:
If you are satisfied with the results – merge down this layer (Goal: only one painting layer). Now I will use Dodge and Burn tool to fix some value (foreground – Blacker, background – lighter) so here is our result – for this
operation I have used the same brush settings as for the Atmosphere but only with angle jitter is set to 0%.
Now let's try to put some loose color like this (same brush settings):
Then I have decided to create a Posterize layer (value -19-20)- set the mode to Hard Light.
The comes the gradient layer (Color dodge) + master Opacity/Fill – 45%/75%.
Use separate layer for this, so create one and GO.
Result:
If you are satisfied with the results – merge down this layer (Goal: only one painting layer). Now I will use Dodge and Burn tool to fix some value (foreground – Blacker, background – lighter) so here is our result – for this
Now let's try to put some loose color like this (same brush settings):
Then I have decided to create a Posterize layer (value -19-20)- set the mode to Hard Light.
The comes the gradient layer (Color dodge) + master Opacity/Fill – 45%/75%.
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