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Cheesegeezer
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Hi all,
As being a total novice at airbrushing and also being a geek with computers, I thought that this tutorial may help other beginners with getting to grips with the main lines on a face and also shading densities. I think it will help me alot in determining shading and creating those all important shapes to get any art piece to look pretty good.
So without further ado... you will need Photoshop for this (Although gimp may work if it has the same/similar functions) they are very basic effects required from photoshop and should take you about 5 mins to complete. I'm using Photoshop CS6
Open up your image in Photoshop. - I chose Charlize Theron (have a soft spot for her )
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Make the "Background" into a layer by double clicking on the Background, you should see a box pop up. Either rename it or leave it, it's upto you, then hit OK.
Next Create a copy of the layer by right clicking the Layer 0 and selecting Duplicate layer from the options pop up menu .
NEXT........
No 1 Red Box - You should see your Layer 0 copy now created, it should be at the top of the stack, if not drag and drop it so it's at the top of the stack like this.
No.2 Red Box - Ensure that Layer 0 copy is selected by clicking on it. Then Click on the blend mode (highlighted in the No.2 Red Box) and select "Color Dodge"
Then Invert the image by pressing CTRL+I
You should have something like this now
Next add a Gaussian Blur to the image - now this is what will bring out the details in the negative, you will just have to have a play with the slider to find what you are happy with.
To select Gaussian Blur Click on the Filters tab at the top, highlight Blur and select Guassian Blur. A Box should pop up. Use the slider in the box to get the desired effect when happy click the OK button.
Next we need to reduce the saturation to -100 in order to remove the color from the negative. Click on the Hue/Saturation Icon (Shown in red box) or simply use the menu at the top by selecting
Image --> Adjustments --> Hue/Saturation (pop out menus)
Reduce saturation to -100
And Finally we need to adjust the levels of the image. Again this is a trial and error process to get the desired effect, generally I just use the left slider to adjust the levels, but you can play it, to get a feel of the various effects you can achieve.
Select Levels (highlighted in the red box) or Select Image --> Adjustments --> Levels
Move the left slider in the red box to the desired effect. I generally move it so that it just eliminates the flat lines and you are just entering the point where the exponential graph starts.
So from this
to this - which i think will be useful to get shading amounts and shapes fairly correct
As being a total novice at airbrushing and also being a geek with computers, I thought that this tutorial may help other beginners with getting to grips with the main lines on a face and also shading densities. I think it will help me alot in determining shading and creating those all important shapes to get any art piece to look pretty good.
So without further ado... you will need Photoshop for this (Although gimp may work if it has the same/similar functions) they are very basic effects required from photoshop and should take you about 5 mins to complete. I'm using Photoshop CS6
Open up your image in Photoshop. - I chose Charlize Theron (have a soft spot for her )
Make the "Background" into a layer by double clicking on the Background, you should see a box pop up. Either rename it or leave it, it's upto you, then hit OK.
Next Create a copy of the layer by right clicking the Layer 0 and selecting Duplicate layer from the options pop up menu .
NEXT........
No 1 Red Box - You should see your Layer 0 copy now created, it should be at the top of the stack, if not drag and drop it so it's at the top of the stack like this.
No.2 Red Box - Ensure that Layer 0 copy is selected by clicking on it. Then Click on the blend mode (highlighted in the No.2 Red Box) and select "Color Dodge"
Then Invert the image by pressing CTRL+I
You should have something like this now
Next add a Gaussian Blur to the image - now this is what will bring out the details in the negative, you will just have to have a play with the slider to find what you are happy with.
To select Gaussian Blur Click on the Filters tab at the top, highlight Blur and select Guassian Blur. A Box should pop up. Use the slider in the box to get the desired effect when happy click the OK button.
Next we need to reduce the saturation to -100 in order to remove the color from the negative. Click on the Hue/Saturation Icon (Shown in red box) or simply use the menu at the top by selecting
Image --> Adjustments --> Hue/Saturation (pop out menus)
Reduce saturation to -100
And Finally we need to adjust the levels of the image. Again this is a trial and error process to get the desired effect, generally I just use the left slider to adjust the levels, but you can play it, to get a feel of the various effects you can achieve.
Select Levels (highlighted in the red box) or Select Image --> Adjustments --> Levels
Move the left slider in the red box to the desired effect. I generally move it so that it just eliminates the flat lines and you are just entering the point where the exponential graph starts.
So from this
to this - which i think will be useful to get shading amounts and shapes fairly correct