Final Assessment

The final assessment for Digital Illustration will take place in the week commencing 12 November.
Please have all your work posted to your blog by then.
You should have emailed me your blog address by now.
If you haven't done so, please do it as soon as you can.

You should also have my email address, but here it is one more time:

MichaelWeldon@chisholm.edu.au

More Photoshop Masking. 3 Gradients

Open a picture in Photoshop.

Then drag another photo into the document from your desk top.

Put the layers into the order you desire.

Withe the top layer selected, click Make Layer Mask

Your layers should look like this.

With the Mask thumbnail selected, select the Gradient Tool from the Tool Panel

Go to the top of the screen and select Radial Gradient

Then click the Edit Gradient thumbnail.

Alter the Gradient so that it is White on the left hand side and Black on the right hand side.

(You do this by clicking on the little squares blow the Gradient Strip.)

Now place the Gradient Tool in the middle of your picture and drag out to create a mask.

Something like this.

More Photoshop Masking. 2 The Brush

I have this photo of Herman Munster,

and I want to put this lightning in the background.

I open the Herman photo in Photoshop

I then drag the lightning shot from my desktop into the document with Herman in it.

I resize it and hit return.

I then drag the lightning layer below the Herman layer.

Now with the Herman layer highlighted, I click Add Vector Mask.

My layers now look like this.

With the Layer Mask Window highlighted, I select the paintbrush, give it a fairly low hardness, and paint out the parts of the Herman picture I don't want to see.

My layers now look like this:

And my picture looks like this:

More Character Design Inspiration

Charcter Design Tutes

Some tutes with tips on how to make characters look good.

http://circleboxblog.com/2010/round-ups/character-design-12-wonderful-and-fresh-tutorials/

From Circlebox Blog

More About Masking in Photoshop . 1 The Pen Tool

There are three main with ways which you can create a mask in PS.

1 With the Pen Tool

2 With the Brush Tool

3 With the Gradient Tool.


1 With the Pen Tool

Open a New layer in PS

Select the Pen Tool

Draw the shape of the mask you wish to make

The select the Path Selection Tool and right click on the Path.

Click Make Selection.

You must choose the Feather radius you require.

A FR of 0 will give your mask a sharp edge.

A FR of 10 will give your mask a very soft edge.

Once you have made the selection, click on the make Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers Menu.

Your layer should now look like this:

Now make sure that you have the Layer Thumbnail highlighted and not the Layer Mask Thumbnail.

You can now begin to paint in your mask!

Adding Shading to The Masked Denim Jeans

I have my mask made of my denim jeans.

In my layers menu I can see that the blue colour of my jeans is still on the layer below.

I set the blending mode of the Denim Layer to Screen and the Opacity to 50%

Now I select the Brush tool, set the hardness to 0 and the Foreground colour to black.

With my soft brush I begin to paint around the edges of my jeans to add some depth and shadow to them.

Stuff About Masking in Photoshop

There are many ways to use the Masking tool in Photoshop.

Here is a fairly easy and very useful one.

Let's say I've created a character, who is wearing jeans and I want put some denim texture into his jeans.

In Photoshop I open a New Layer

I use the Pen Tool to draw the shape of his jeans.

Then I select the Path Selection Tool (A).

I set the Foreground Colour to the one I want.

I right click on the jeans shape and select Fill Path.

Foreground Colour.

I have found a denim texture online.

I open the denim in a new Photoshop document.

I go to Image > Adjustments > Desaturate to take the colour out of it.

I use the Rectangular marquee Tool to select it.

I go to Edit > Copy, and then I Edit > Paste it into the document with my trousers in it.

The Layers menu should now look like this:

With the Denim layer highlighted I press Command T and resize the denim image to the required dimensions, and the hit RETURN.

With the denim layer highlighted, I hold down the Command key and click in the ICON of the trousers in the Trousers layer.

It should look like this:

I then click on the Add Layer Mask icon.

And my Image should look like this:

I have created a mask in the shape of the jeans, which is filled with the denim pattern.

Tutorial: Create a Panda face in Illustrator

This is quite an easy way to create characters with nice 3-D effects using just Illustrator.

http://vectips.com/tutorials/create-a-cute-panda-bear-face-icon/

Character Design Inspiration