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Weathering away the paint

Weathering away the paint

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Weathering away the paint

In this video I'll show how to scratch and wear away paint on the gas pump. I've added in wear, layering on rust and bubbles and so forth. But what I also need to do, especially on these front panels, as we'll see in the reference in the minute, is to wear away the paint. It's been exposed to the elements for years, and so a lot of the original has faded out. Here in Photoshop we can see, if I look at my reference, that the gas pump on the left in blue is fairly intact. The gas pump on the right in red though, although standing straighter has the paint worn away, maybe scored or flaking off, revealing the white paint underneath. I'll show how to do this easily, building up using the eraser. With the latest version in my PSD selected, I'm going to make my red gas pump missing some of its paint. First, I'll turn off some of my layer sets so I can see what I'm doing, turning off the bump and turning off the blue color as well. There is the red. And I'll open up that layer set and scroll…

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