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A Work in Progress: Water Lion
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This guide was made for entry:
Water Lion
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mixed manipulations 13
step 1 of 14
started with a gradient BG
step 2 of 14
chopped the lion
step 3 of 14
made a selection of the green channel and duplicated it to a new layer
then did chrome filter and set the layer to screen mode
duplicated that layer to strengthen the effect
step 4 of 14
used the water brush to create the lion mane
step 5 of 14
duplicated the water mane layer
step 6 of 14
used a soft white brush to fix the mane
step 7 of 14
used water splash brushes on the lion face
step 8 of 14
rotated and changed the size of the brush and wrapped the brush strokes according to the lion face
step 9 of 14
used a soft low opacity large white brush to make big white spots to strengthen the effect
step 10 of 14
merged all the layers to a new top one and set it to soft light mode
step 11 of 14
duplicated the chrome filter layer, moved it to the top and did base relief filter on it
layer on screen mode
step 12 of 14
merged all layers again to a new top one
did glowing edges filter and set the layer to soft light mode
step 13 of 14
created to more layers above the BG layer
in the first one, used a soft black big brush to darken some areas
second one, used a soft white brush to whiten the eyes, nose and mouth
step 14 of 14
created a color fill layer on top, set it to color mode, opacity 15% to give a bluish tone
Final result
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Comments
JamesP
says:
Thanks for the SBS, I'm sure this will come in handy soon
(5 years and 3139 days ago)
Thanks for the SBS, I'm sure this will come in handy soon
(5 years and 3139 days ago)