A Work in Progress: Wrong Way

This guide was made for entry:
Wrong Way
In Contest:
fish

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First I created all the paths I needed. The fish body...

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...The fish tail...

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... The upper fin (it would do fo the lower fin too)...

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... The light beam...

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... Seaweeds...

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I made selection from the body path and painted it using a soft brush with low opacity.

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Same process for the fish tail and fins.

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On a new layer I painted the fish eye and iris.

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The strips were made one by one using pen tool and stroked with 'simulate pressures' checked.

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All the layers I created were put into a folder I named 'fish' and converted to 'smart object'.

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I duplicated the fish smart object and applied a hue/saturation adjustment layer and decreased its size.

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I made a new copy and used the same process. (note: layer style were applied to the layers inside the smart object for each copy.)

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I made one more copy of the fish smart object, incresead its size and changed its layer styles.

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I created a new layer at the bottom and painted the background.

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I made selection from the two seaweeds path I had created, painted them, put them into a folder and convert this folder to smart objecto too. Them I applied layer style.

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I made six copies of the seaweeds smart object and changed their size and position.

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I made selection from the light beam path and on a new layer above the background I filled it with gradient and applied 60% opacity.

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On two new layers, one at the top and the other between the light layer and the background, I added bubbles.

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Finally I merged all layers on a new layer at the top, duplicated it and applied linear burn blending with 30% opacity.

Final result

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George55
Glockman
Score: 9

Comments

George55 says:

I think it is a nice, well explained SBS guide for us who like to draw. Not so good at using paths, but I am learning from all of you. Thank you.

(5 years and 3663 days ago)

George55 says:

I think it is a nice, well explained SBS guide for us who like to draw. Not so good at using paths, but I am learning from all of you. Thank you.

(5 years and 3663 days ago)

George55 says:

I think it is a nice, well explained SBS guide for us who like to draw. Not so good at using paths, but I am learning from all of you. Thank you.

(5 years and 3663 days ago)

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