How can I creat wrinkles creases.....

How to find the hidden tools in PS.

Make sure you have the Tools window open. If not, go up to the main toolbar up top. Click on Window and check Tools.

Some of the tools in the Tools window have a small arrow in the bottom right corner. Each tool with it has other tool options for that space. Hover the mouse over that tool right click and a second box will appear. You can then select them.

Sponge, Dodge and Burn share the same spot.

Other great hidden ones…
Smudge (loooooooooove Smudge!) is hidden under Blur
Paint bucket and Gradient also share a spot.

The main thing when using Burn and Dodge is keeping the Exposure setting very light. Better to slowly build it up than do to much at once. Often less is more.

I live by dodge and burn no doubt! Plus addin layer up layer n smudging lots of error n trial heres something of my result with dodge n burn..

All these techniques so little time. Now I cant wait to get home from work and play around. Kudos to everyone for sharing! This should be stickied!


Later that evening...

I am still at work on an old clunky windoze machine running 2000 with PS 6.0 installed. I am looking at the settings for the bevel/emboss style which is all set. Now I am fiddling around with the brush options and seem to have lost the 'fade' options or else it doesnt exist in PS 6.0. I will try and see if I can find it on my CS2 version of PS when I get home.

Other then that, the tut looks fab, Namssor - Cheers!


A few moments later...
I was able to find the option and all I can say right now is - WOW! Tried the blur/dodge method and it doesnt compare. Perfect results with every brush stroke. The only thing we need to do as an end user, is to figure out placement and length, and there is room to modify the results with layering and fiddling with each layer style. This is the way to go when making realistic folds and kinks.

Thank you for sharing this valuable tip! You just found yaself a fan girl, Namssor!

Thanks for the tip about using fade for brushes. That's something I kinda knew about but never thought to use, and it makes up a little for not having a graphics tablet.

Tablets have their pros and cons. I trained as a classical artist and to me the tablet surface is too slick. It's like I am trying to sketch on glass. I am thinking about taping a sheet of paper over the surface and seeing if that gives the surface a little more tooth without interferring with the pen. Plus, you have to get used to the fact that your work on the screen doesn't move in relation to the tablet. My hand-eye coordination works against me here sometimes where my hand forgets that the tablet is turned 13 degrees to the left because my eye is telling me that the work is level.

Cons aplenty, but using a mouse to paint is like using a snow shovel to eat peas. At least to my clumsy hands.

Noel, what kind of tablet do you have? They vary widely in quality, surface, ease of use, and most other attributes.

I recommend a Wacom. They might look more expensive, but consider this; you will never, ever, have to buy batteries for your pen.

I tried using a non-Wacom tablet for a while, because the store didn't have any Wacoms, and I thought, "How much difference can there be?" I found out. Tons!

If you have a Wacom, and the surface still feels too smooth, by all means put a piece of paper on top of it. It won't bother it at all. You might also consider resting the edge of the tablet against a ledge on your desk. (I put one there, for that purpose, at one time.) As long as it's square to the edge, your "analog art" reflexes will work perfectly. (After a while, I found that I was just moving the pen according to what I was looking at, and the angle of the tablet ceased to matter. But that particular type of hand-eye co-ordination took years. In the beginning, I had the same problem you are having.)

Trying to paint with the mouse, though, is like trying to draw with a bar of soap. And there is no comparison to the flexiblity you can get by changing pressure (or rotation, or tilt) with the pen on a Wacom. I hardly ever use Fade anymore. I just change the tilt of the pen.

Anyway, that's my experience.

I also use a Wacom tablet and it is my best friend. Related to this topic, I find its best uses are for shading things such as wrinkles. I will alternate between darken for shadow, then lighten for highlight, then smudge the whole thing together. (This is in PSP, but I'm sure PS has the same stuff). This doesn't require nearly the same precision as actual freehand drawing with it. I simply use both the 'change opacity' and 'change color' settings for the tablet and it gives me fantastic results.

Hi,

I'm really interested in learning these techniques. Seems like there is some great info here, however I"m having a bit of a problem in that i don't see any of the attachments here. I also see a lot of code to change the font/size/color. I fear my board settings are messed up. For example: post #16 by Namssor Daguerre says "this is the method I use" but i have no clue what that method is cause I guess they explained it in an attachment.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

It's not -your- bboard settings, it's the global bboard settings that are broken. This thread is from a long time back when the board was properly using font tags and embedded links and images. They have been turned off to prepare for an imminent (as of 6 months ago... ) bboard upgrade.

I don't understand why bbcode needs to be turned off to upgrade. But whatever, the upgrade has been postponed and the bbcode is still off.

If any further explanation was ever in that post 16, it isn't there now.

Thanks Jake for the quick reply. I'm glad its not my settings. So as a follow-up: Is there a way to see these attachments/examples? Does someone have them or are they possibly located somewhere else? Its so much easier to understand for me when you can see a picture along with the explanation.

When there is a url like
http://www.renderosity.com/freestuff.ez
You can simply copy the address and paste it into your web-browser's address bar.
However, when there's no visible address, there's no way for an ordinary user to recover the information. It may come back at a later date. I recommend, though, instead of worrying about this thread, search the wiki
for tutorials and other links (wiki.secondlife.com) and search the forums for other threads. This thread is a couple years old, and I'm sure there have been discussions on wrinkles more recently, recently enough to work with the constraints of the bboard now (that is, provide web addresses and text explanations and not try to embed information).

The only thing I remember of such threads offhand was the advice, 'dodge, burn, blur, usually in that order.' Heh.