Elf-Girl Picture
- By Anastacia Sholik
- Published 12/28/2006
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Select now a Brush Tool of 1-3 px and insert on the hair several colors for them to look more lively.
Choose the Dodge Tool to make the hair look lighter.
Change finally their color and intensity with Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation (ctrl+u) and Image - Adjustments - Curves (ctrl+m).
Make use of the Eraser Tool now to trim the hair and insert a little brilliance on them applying the Dodge Tool.
Using the Brush Tool, it's possible to make the eyes look bluer with a kind of flare in them. Insert the shadows also deeper on the whites of the eyes.
Next we need to picture on the eye's iris several stripes of darker color.
Choose the Brush Tool and the Smudge Tool to represent the eyelids. We need them to look darker, that is why we have to copy the layer containing the eyelids several times (ctrl+j).
Use the same Brush Tool to introduce the mount on the dress's bodice, by choosing several colors and changing the brush's size.
Change its color (ctrl+u).
Copy after that with the Eyedropper Tool the color of the ornament on the bodice. Change the brush's adjustments and apply the pointing motions to hide the tape's edges situated on the bodice.
Give back 100% for the Brush Tool's adjustments, choose after that a small brush and introduce sparkles on the bodice. Make a copy of this layer and blur it out with Gaussian Blur. The Opacity of the copy's
layer must be of 50%. The Opacity of the basic layer should be 90%.
Now we have to draw the lace on the girl's neck and on her arms (the brush's size is 1-2 px). Apply the filter for the drawn (Filter - Sharpen - Sharpen).
Change now the dress's color, using Image - Adjustments - Selective Color.
Applying the same command, we should change the lips' color, the color of the eyelids and the color of the tape.
We need to change the background by using the Gradient Tool.
Selecting the appropriate brush's type, add on a new layer, above the background the clouds. (We won't outline the background very intensively just not to distract the attention from the girl).
Blur them out on the given direction with next selection: Filter - Blur - Motion Blur.
On a new layer, above the clouds, we should insert now a flowering tree.
Apply to this layer the filter we used when processing the girl's skirt (Filter - Brush Strokes - Accented Edges).
Change the layer's type on Screen and merge down all the layers after that: Layer - Merge Visible (shift+ctrl+e).
Correct a little the colors, making use of the next option: Image - Adjustments - Curves (ctrl+m) and if that is necessary, apply also Levels (ctrl+l).
The last feature includes inserting the illustration in a frame and that is possible to do with the next instruments: Crop Tool and Rectangular Tool. After this operation use again Filter - Sharpen - Sharpen.
The illustration is finished!
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Choose the Dodge Tool to make the hair look lighter.
Change finally their color and intensity with Image - Adjustments - Hue/Saturation (ctrl+u) and Image - Adjustments - Curves (ctrl+m).
Make use of the Eraser Tool now to trim the hair and insert a little brilliance on them applying the Dodge Tool.
Using the Brush Tool, it's possible to make the eyes look bluer with a kind of flare in them. Insert the shadows also deeper on the whites of the eyes.
Next we need to picture on the eye's iris several stripes of darker color.
Choose the Brush Tool and the Smudge Tool to represent the eyelids. We need them to look darker, that is why we have to copy the layer containing the eyelids several times (ctrl+j).
Use the same Brush Tool to introduce the mount on the dress's bodice, by choosing several colors and changing the brush's size.
Change its color (ctrl+u).
Copy after that with the Eyedropper Tool the color of the ornament on the bodice. Change the brush's adjustments and apply the pointing motions to hide the tape's edges situated on the bodice.
Give back 100% for the Brush Tool's adjustments, choose after that a small brush and introduce sparkles on the bodice. Make a copy of this layer and blur it out with Gaussian Blur. The Opacity of the copy's
Now we have to draw the lace on the girl's neck and on her arms (the brush's size is 1-2 px). Apply the filter for the drawn (Filter - Sharpen - Sharpen).
Change now the dress's color, using Image - Adjustments - Selective Color.
Applying the same command, we should change the lips' color, the color of the eyelids and the color of the tape.
We need to change the background by using the Gradient Tool.
Selecting the appropriate brush's type, add on a new layer, above the background the clouds. (We won't outline the background very intensively just not to distract the attention from the girl).
Blur them out on the given direction with next selection: Filter - Blur - Motion Blur.
On a new layer, above the clouds, we should insert now a flowering tree.
Apply to this layer the filter we used when processing the girl's skirt (Filter - Brush Strokes - Accented Edges).
Change the layer's type on Screen and merge down all the layers after that: Layer - Merge Visible (shift+ctrl+e).
Correct a little the colors, making use of the next option: Image - Adjustments - Curves (ctrl+m) and if that is necessary, apply also Levels (ctrl+l).
The last feature includes inserting the illustration in a frame and that is possible to do with the next instruments: Crop Tool and Rectangular Tool. After this operation use again Filter - Sharpen - Sharpen.
The illustration is finished!
+ View full size image
Made by Sigma
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