Still Point

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Okay, so all images were provided and I followed along with dude, but I made this in CS2 in the “advanced layers / blending modes / knockout layers” chapter. I haven’t memorized the different blending modes, but basically ‘color’, ’screen’, and ‘multiply’ seem to be used a lot. I think I studied these tutorials (chapters 1-17) for about 9 hours straight and only ate once today, so I’m pretty much ready for bed.

Look forward to more useless images tomorrow after the next 17 chapters of lessons! I’m kinda hooked on Photoshop, and I have to say, after watching the brain-taxing Pro Tools tutorials, and having a basic knowledge of image editing software already, these ones are pretty easy.

Anyway if you look closely you can see that ‘we’ applied a Blue-Man-esque tattoo thing on this guys face, parametrically! It’s a little like adding a plug-in on an audio file — it never changes the source file on your hard drive, it just reads the source and applies an effect, filter, or modulation, or whatever, afterwards. Pretty cool stuff I must say. Oh and another cool thing is the ‘knockout’ on his pupil, ‘we’ just put a little marquee (feathered, of course) on the top layer and punched through to the bottom layer of the group.

I can now say (with confidence) that I’m an expert at painting someone’s face all wildstyle in PS CS2, with the use of layers, blending modes, and a lot of free time.