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Painting the sunlight, part 3: Background

Painting the sunlight, part 3: Background - Photoshop Tutorial

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Painting the sunlight, part 3: Background

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- [Announcer] The figure is finished now and our sunlight layer. Now we're doing to paint the background elements. And let's just move this sphere away a little bit. It's still a useful reference, so I will just keep it a little bit longer. But now we want to paint the ground and basically what we can see here, in the drawing is that everything is a little bit distorted. And the ground here is actually a little bit like a very big sphere. So again this sphere here might be useful reference for shading the ground. Okay, in order to do that, I will select the whole background. And I will subtract the shape of the creature from it. And now I can take a very big brush and start to shade the ground here. So if we look at the sphere, the brightest part of the ground will actually be here in the lower part somewhere. Everything else is going to be much darker. So this is starting to look like a very big sphere here in the background. And now I only have to make sure that all the other…

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