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Painting with Airbrush tips

Painting with Airbrush tips - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting with Airbrush tips

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- [Voiceover] Okay, so I'm gonna go ahead and clean the screen off here, and do a painting, and then we'll talk about it on the other side. Okay, so here's the finished drawing, and you might have seen while I was doing this, that I was actually using the lasso tool as a way to quickly mask shapes, and particularly with an airbrush, masking is just a natural way to define shapes. So using this in concert with the lasso tool, it's still hand drawn, but you're able to create a very precise shape and then fill it with the various sprays within that shape that you defined, and once again, that's just another hallmark of airbrushes, so it totally looks natural in terms of being an airbrush drawing. Now I'll go ahead and zoom up here. And one of the things that happens is you get this really nice intermixing. It's an optical blending where some of these colors being so close to complimentary and secondary colors that your eye starts to merge these colors, and you start to see color that…

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