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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle

Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle - Photoshop Tutorial

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Drawing the ultimate specular sparkle

All right, here I am looking at the final version of the magazine cover called Pout magazine.psd, and we are zoomed in on this detail of the necklace that's curling around the model's finger. And in this exercise I'm going to show you how I made this sparkle as a combination of a couple of shape layers working together. Now, one of the things I was trying to do is emulate a real-world specular highlight. So I went ahead and found an image lying around, actually handful of images. This was one of them that had some real-world sparkles inside of it. These are some photographically captured sparkles, in other words, I didn't do anything to this image. And the name of the image is Sparkles.jpg, and this is just a detail of a larger photograph of course, just actually a little bit of a junkie detail really. But what I wanted to do was simulate this effect right here to the degree that it serves the purposes of the image. In other words, this sparkle would be too big and glumpy to actually…

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