Any Good tutorial on Burning and Dodging and Folding?

I think I am doing pretty good in creating my outfits... But I want to get better and better. Already released 10 new outfits.

But, but, but... I am still not to good in burning and dodging and also in folding. Please, Chip, Chase, Robin or anyone else that can guide me into this. I would like to know the right percentage, brush sizes, ect... what to chose, how to select the right colors, ect...

Any suggestions? Any pluggings I need or something? seems that my burning really burns and turns the texture in an awful color that doesn't match at all with the original texture. I want to be able to add great shadows, vinyl or plastic illusions with the dodging, ect...

I see great designers that do it so great, I know I can be able to do it, if I know the technique. Any web sites you guys suggests for me? Maybe there is another thread about this and I dont know....

After this I am sure I will do much better....

Thanks so much...

Pal

Hi Palomma!

Add two layers. Paint white on one - with a transparent brush to make highlights. Build up the density by repeating your brush strokes or by adjusting brush opacity and softness to your liking. And on the other layer, paint with black the same way. Burn and dodge will likely not give you the effect you want. Percentages? Brush sizes? Hmmm.... Just experiment and trust your eyes

Robin's way of doing wrinkles are described in this tread. Not sure if that's what you mean by 'folding' - as you know English isn't my native language

Good luck! Looking forward to see your new creations.


Lis

Palomma,

Try creating a new, seperate layer that is a copy of the fabric/pattern layer, then doing your shading on that with dodge and burn. A softer edge and bigger brush works better for general fabric, a harder, smaller one for shiny surfaces. Then lower the opacity of the new layer until it looks realistic. For an interesting effect try changing the blend mode of the layer to Overlay or Dodge or whatever. By layering, you leave the original intact in case you want to edit more or made a mistake.

Sometimes you can "fake" shiny things like latex or leather with the filters, esp. Plastic Wrap or Chrome. But for the highlights to go in the right place it helps to shade first, then filter. Even then you may have to add yet another layer to add the very white highlights with a brush.

Hi Palomma

Check out the sticky at the top of this forum by Blaze. In it is a link to Robin's "Photoshop Tips & Tricks Thread" - it gives advice on burn and dodge without being destructive to little pixels. Also scroll down for another burn and dodge tip.

Cool! Thanks! anything helps me a lot...