From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero
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Filling in gaps with symmetrical flames
From the course: Designing a Retro-Style Superhero
Filling in gaps with symmetrical flames
In this movie, I'll show you how to fill in some of the blank regions of flame, including these areas between the legs and these regions to the left and the right of the abdomen. So, the first thing I'm going to do is create a symmetrical flame pattern, that's independent of the smart objects I've created so far. And to do that, I will make sure that my rectangular marquee tool is selected, here at the top of the tool box. And then, I'll right-click inside the image window, assuming one of the smart objects, one of the flames, is selected here inside of the Layers panel. You right-click inside the image window, and you choose New Smart Object via Copy and that way you have an independent smart object, so it's not linked to these other two. And so I'll go ahead and choose that command, it looks the same as it did before but trust me it's different. And now, I'm going to press the control key or the command key on the Mac and drag this guy over to the right just so we can see it better.…
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