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Shadowing techniques

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Shadowing techniques

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- [Instructor] Defining dimension is the next big step in this process. In this video, I will show how to use a soft brush to create the illusion of form in our scene. Okay, so let's go ahead. Because we were just talking about the anatomy of the face, let's start to play around with the actual skin texture in our scene. So, let's go to the Skin folder and create a new layer. I'll hold down the Alt button in between the two so that they're speaking to each other. And we're going to switch this over to Multiply. Now what I want to do is select a brush. And this is going to be a standard soft brush. And if we go into our little presets, we can see that we have our size set to Pen Pressure. And we can change up the minimum diameter a little bit, maybe scoot that over to 20 or 30%. That way we can't go too small with it, which will give us these weird little lines in there. But we have at least kind of a full representation even at its smallest point. We can also go to Transfer and set…

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