Tutorial : Adding Light "stripes" To Your Skin

Jimmeh

Using 2 slightly different shades of grey, use the cloud filter to fill in the skin

Jimmeh

Using burn tool and a big brush, select midtones and about 20% exposure and just cover the skin.

Jimmeh

Select some thin stripes down where you want the light using rectangular marquee tool.

Then go to select -> feather and choose about 5 pixels

Jimmeh

Using dodge tool at 50% exposure and highlights and a big brush, just fill in the seletion once/twice

Jimmeh

Select -> modify -> contract -> choose about 5 pixels again

Select -> Feather -> about 5 pixels again.

Then using dodge tool again (same settings as just) fill it in again

Jimmeh

Either leave it as it is, or use a 1 pixel dodge 100% exposure to add scratches to it

CMF_Fatal

ohhh very tutorial!. easy to understand, very clear, thx alot! try to get some out there, these will help ALOT of people.

Jimmeh

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Just followed my own tutorial and this is what i got (went a bit overboard with the scratches though)

Vecdran

Eh, that's a VERY basic tutorial. That is almost useless as far as doing lighting on a tube, sorry.

Jimmeh

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No offence but did you even try it?

Here it is on some cylinders.... i'll use it on something else in a sec....

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Jimmeh

On a MP5 stock.... found this on a tutorial i think del posted

(Don't have model)

CMF_Fatal

see, you can use this any way you want really... its perfect for edges in a clip, minor details on a bland body etc. im sure you can do the same with burn tool too, this did help me alot. thank you.

ques: when skinning, how do you select only the portain you want to edit., ie, just the stock part, or just the clip. i know there are several ways to do it but i wondered what the easiest for this situation was. im quite experienced with photoshop so a simple explanation should do...

CoolCookieCooks

drag a box around what you want, use the magic wand to <b>de</b>select the areas you want with alt i think or was it ctrl <!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd.gif' /><!--endemo-->