Self Learning Program

May 2002 - Week 4

Painting With Retouch Tool - Part 4
Final Touches

Tutorial found HERE

Homework

What I Did

I chose a picture from Webshots to try to duplicate.

• Opened new image 600 X 400
• Loaded pale, pale blue in foreground, and light blue as background. Selected gradient on 90 degrees and flood filled.
• With foreground on white... airbrushed in some clouds. Darkened lower edge with DarkenRGD. Smudged.
• NEW LAYER (Mountains)- Selected base color of mountains and laid in base.
• Selected darker color and laid in darker sections.
• Selected goldish color and laid in light sections.
• Selected grayish beige and laid in grayish sections.
• With Retouch>Darken RGB did shadows and cliffs on mountains.
• With Airbrush on low density., and alternating from colors on mountain, did further shading.
• NEW LAYER (Lake) - Selected 3 colors (dark gold, light gold, and blue) and colored in lake.
• Using Retouch>Lighten RGB, Retouch Darken RGB, and smudge did shading on lake.
• With pale gold did ripples on lake and then used gaussian blur at .3.
• NEW LAYER (Big Rock) - with tube added large river rock on left.  Duplicated as new layer and flipped.  Positioned and darkened reflection.  Merged these two layers.
• NEW LAYER (Rocks) - With medium gray painted in other rocks.  Shaded with Darken/ Lighten RGB.
• NEW LAYER (Bushes) - With medium dark green airbrushed in bushes.  Shaded with Darken/Lighten RGB.  Used Gaussian Blur at .6.
• NEW LAYER (Tree Branch) [you can hardly see if on rocks on left side] - Selected "bare tree" tube, resized and rotated it, then positioned on rocks. 
• Merged layers.. 
• Added Signature
• Decided to put white border like picture at webshots instead of frame so added white border. Selected picture and added drop shadow.  Added text at bottom.

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Created 5/25/02