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Creating a layer of ghoulish skin

Creating a layer of ghoulish skin - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a layer of ghoulish skin

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In this exercise, we are going to apply a layer of ghoulish color to this guy's skin. And we are going to do so once again using a combination of Color Range and Refine Edge. And over time, you'll get a sense for just how ideally suited these two commands are, for selecting general Luminance Ranges inside Photoshop. I have saved my progress as Cool composition.psd found inside the 07_refine folder. We are going to create this new layer below the eyes layer, so I want you to go ahead and click on that Dude layer, and just so I can make a point here, select the layer Mask thumbnail. Now generally speaking, this is not the way you want to work, and I'll show you why? Go up to the Select menu and choose a Color Range command. My last applied Fuzziness value was 20 and all of a sudden my image has totally disappeared. Well I am going to go ahead and click somewhere inside of what's supposed to be the face and maybe Shift+ Drag across his face, like so. And we end up creating this weird…

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