From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
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Shading a piece of graphic art - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Mastery
Shading a piece of graphic art
In this exercise we're going to use the Mixer Brush in order to shade an actual piece of artwork. And that actual piece of art, such as it is, is this guy right here, it's called Robot in color.psd. And notice right at the top of the stack is that enhanced piece of robot art, which is now called the line art layer. What I want to do however, because we've got so many Fill layers going on. I want to give you a sense of how this layered piece of artwork is built up because you will need to know that in order to shape things along with me. So I am going to Alt+Click the eyeball associated with the lowest layer in the stack, that's the Texture layer of course, that would be Option+Clicking on the eyeball on the Mac. And then I'll turn on this Adjustment layer that lightens up the texture as well. Now in front of that we've got a group that's called Backdrop and it contains several different items, all of which are masked inside of the background. So the robot is masked out of the picture…
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Photoshop's advanced painting tools2m 3s
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Canvas texture and brush libraries6m 40s
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Painting with a predefined custom brush9m 21s
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Dissecting a custom brush11m 9s
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Designing and using a custom brush4m 54s
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Saving and loading brush presets5m 27s
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The ten styles of bristle brushes9m 47s
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Size, Spacing, and Angle7m 2s
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Using the Bristle Brush preview7m 53s
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Bristles, Length, Thickness, and Stiffness6m 53s
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Stylus tilt and mouse behavior5m 25s
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Stroking a path outline with a brush4m
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Troubleshooting a stylus5m 49s
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Introducing the Mixer Brush7m 22s
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The Load, Mix, and Wet values5m 1s
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Cleaning and loading a brush6m 26s
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Shading a piece of graphic art6m 34s
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Shading with color7m 53s
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Mixing a photographic portrait6m 11s
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Tracing the fine details in an image5m 52s
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Crosshatching and brush size5m 53s
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Covering up and augmenting details7m 36s
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Painting in hair and fabric5m 54s
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Painting and scaling very fine hairs8m 7s
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Adding texture with the Emboss filter8m 31s
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Exploiting a "happy accident"2m 46s
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