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Tracing the fine details in an image - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Tracing the fine details in an image
I am still working inside Colleen in Amsterdam.jpg. All I have done so far is to create a new layer and establish a few Mixer Brush settings that are most conducive to transforming a photograph into a painting. I've also selected the default Round Blunt Bristle brush and reduced the size my cursor to 3 pixels. I am going to go ahead and zoom in on Colleen's face here, and when transforming a photograph into a painting, I advise that you start by tracing the most recognizable elements first. That might sound common sense but you don't want to just be scrubbing over obvious edges inside the image. So I am going to take it pretty slow and easy around, for example, the nose here in order to see if I can get this exactly right. Notice by the way, remember that is, that you have the option of rotating your canvas as you work here. So I'll go ahead and press the R key and drag the canvas, like so, in order to rotate it onscreen and that's going to work out better for me. Now I think I've…
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Photoshop's advanced painting tools2m 3s
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Canvas texture and brush libraries6m 40s
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Painting with a predefined custom brush9m 21s
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Dissecting a custom brush11m 9s
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Designing and using a custom brush4m 54s
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Saving and loading brush presets5m 27s
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The ten styles of bristle brushes9m 47s
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Size, Spacing, and Angle7m 2s
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Using the Bristle Brush preview7m 53s
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Bristles, Length, Thickness, and Stiffness6m 53s
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Stylus tilt and mouse behavior5m 25s
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Stroking a path outline with a brush4m
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Troubleshooting a stylus5m 49s
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Introducing the Mixer Brush7m 22s
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The Load, Mix, and Wet values5m 1s
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Cleaning and loading a brush6m 26s
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Shading a piece of graphic art6m 34s
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Shading with color7m 53s
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Mixing a photographic portrait6m 11s
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Tracing the fine details in an image5m 52s
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Crosshatching and brush size5m 53s
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Covering up and augmenting details7m 36s
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Painting in hair and fabric5m 54s
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Painting and scaling very fine hairs8m 7s
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Adding texture with the Emboss filter8m 31s
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Exploiting a "happy accident"2m 46s
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