A Work in Progress: Sleeping Mermaid

This guide was made for entry:
Sleeping Mermaid
In Contest:
blue fantasy

step 1 of 8

close-cut and desaturate tail then place into background photo

step 2 of 8

warp tail

step 3 of 8

after blending of tail in a separate layer add white for the highlight - reduce opacity - erase with soft brush what is not needed.

step 4 of 8

Add shadows with black and soft brush

step 5 of 8

in a separate layer above main layer add white with brush it will be for highlights.

step 6 of 8

this is the difference.
For the highlights I used color dodge mode in layer and reduced the opacity to 30%

step 7 of 8

save as flattened image then duplicate layer. the top layer blur then reduce opacity around 40% (you have more blur control this way IMO) It will look like this

step 8 of 8

Adjust levels and then add color

Final result

Votes

user	voted
itsdesign
Mario
Score: 10

Comments

Mario [banned] says:

you made a nice tutorial and I think we all have to learn from it, especially light and shadow stuff

(5 years and 3501 days ago)

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