O.o No WAY. Most of the time, my smallest brust is a 19pixel one... Mind you, I work on a 600 dpi A4 pic which is huge... So what do you play around with besides layers? I may be able to swap some knowledge
I have CS too. My friend use to tinker pixel by pixel... Call me messy, but I like a slightly rough look on my lines. I think it's the pencil artist in me not wanting to give up ^^
Masks, although I don't use them aren't too difficult, but my friend Vic swears by making channels. This is too much work to me for little results.
http://www.farlowstudios.com/tutorials.html
This guy has a tutorial using 'flats'to colour his art that she swears by. Me? Select and flood fill, but hey- everyone to their own, right? It's worth looking at though. MAsks to me are a bit of a "But I can do <enter process> and do the same thing!!" *shrug*
It varies... In this instance I rendered the props in Poser (Cottage, fence, dirt road... then exported it as a 300 DPI render into a PSD file... then I painted all over it and filtered the bajeebers out of it to make it look like a painting and not a 3D model... Like I painted in the grass, added lines and edges and flowers etc...
It depends on how fancy I want to make a BG... If I'm just gonna have it generic I'll just paint it (I have a ton of custom brushes I've made for that purpose.
but if I want it as rich in detail as this one, I'll render a 3D model first (I have lots of construction kits in POSER that I can build scenery and cottages, even castle building blocks if I wanted too... and then paint over it using it as a wireframe/template.
DAZ|Studio Is JUST like POSER and is FREE http://www.daz3d.com/program/studio/1_0index.php
However it can be an expesive hobby to buy all the nifty builders... Let me know if you want anything -- I'm a platinum Club member and I can get most things VERY CHEAP. Most things for me only cost $1.99
Masks, although I don't use them aren't too difficult, but my friend Vic swears by making channels. This is too much work to me for little results.
http://www.farlowstudios.com/tutorials.html
This guy has a tutorial using 'flats'to colour his art that she swears by. Me? Select and flood fill, but hey- everyone to their own, right? It's worth looking at though. MAsks to me are a bit of a "But I can do <enter process> and do the same thing!!" *shrug*
I'm happy to learn shortcuts but sometimes the shortcut seems longer than the way I was doing it before sometimes.
I hear ya!
then exported it as a 300 DPI render into a PSD file... then I painted all over it and filtered the bajeebers out of it to make it look like a painting and not a 3D model... Like I painted in the grass, added lines and edges and flowers etc...
It depends on how fancy I want to make a BG... If I'm just gonna have it generic I'll just paint it (I have a ton of custom brushes I've made for that purpose.
but if I want it as rich in detail as this one, I'll render a 3D model first (I have lots of construction kits in POSER that I can build scenery and cottages, even castle building blocks if I wanted too... and then paint over it using it as a wireframe/template.
^_^
Is JUST like POSER and is FREE
http://www.daz3d.com/program/studio/1_0index.php
However it can be an expesive hobby to buy all the nifty builders...
Let me know if you want anything -- I'm a platinum Club member and I can get most things VERY CHEAP. Most things for me only cost $1.99
^_^