We are going to do a pixel project, and shade with the Dodge and Burn tools.
Here is what we are going to make...
Download the outline here, just right click.
For the tools. I am using PSPXI, so yours may be in a different place, but here are mine.
The settings I have for these tools are the same for both and are as follows.
The only thing we will change from time to time is this.
Now download the outline, and fill in the colors. I have used these colors, but you can fill them with any colors you like.
Let's start by making pages on the books. Click on your burn tool. Set your opacity at 100%. Now we will just run lines across the ends of the books. What I do is click once.
Then I press and hold down the SHIFT key on the keyboard.
And now, while still holding down the shift, click on the other side of the book.
This saves a little time, and is great for even lines, but with these 2 tools, it does create a little over lap.
But you can go back with your brush tool and just match the colors and change them, either while you are working or at the end.
I just wait till I get to the end of that part. So you keep making lines...
Until you get them all done!
Now I go back and clean up the over laps. You can also just click on the black outline when
doing the lines and it wont over lap ;-)
Now, what I do, so that the outline will match the shading, I take my burn tool, and just click
on each color in my picture, I click 4 times at 50%.
This makes a dark pixel, and you can now make this color your background. How I do this is by using the "Color Replacer" tool.
Then I make my background color black, because that is the color we want to replace. And I am matching the foreground color to my little dark pixel, because I want the outline to now be that color.
And I just trace around the outline where I want each color. I have my tool set like this.
And I click here.
And then trace down, you can see it change.
Also, you can use the shift key and click one end and then the other, like when we made the lines on the end of the books, it works for this tool also. I trace around the red book.
You repeat around every color, until you have the black outline changed!
And you can then just paint over your little pixel to make it the same color as the rest of
the area. Once we have the outline done, we can then start shading. I start with the
burn tool set at 100%. I am going to shade in the book binding. So I want to run 2 lines of
the burn tool on the upper and lower part of each book. On the big book I did 3 lines.
Now change your burn tool to 50% and make more 2 more lines at each end of the blue, on the green book, I only did one line and on the red book I did 3 lines. I now switch to the dodge tool and set it 100% and make one line on the blue book in the middle. And 2 lines in the middle of the red book, the green book doesn't need it.
Now just clean up your over laps, and you are done with the books!
The apple will be a little different, because it is rounded and there are a few ways you could
shade it. You could just shade alittle at the bottom and a round shine on the upper part, or
make the shine at the top, it is really up to you and how you like. You use the burn tool for the
shade/shadow and the dodge tool for the shine. I set the burn tool at 100% to start with.
I make a curved line with the tool. Again, how much is up to you.
And then fill it in.
I do a little more shading, but changing the burn tool to 50% opacity and making a lighter line next to the outline. And a smaller line on top of the shadowed part. Becuase it is now 50%, it is just a shade lighter than the one you started with at 100%.
I want to change to the dodge tool set at 50% opacity and go to the top of my apple. Again, draw a shine on the top and fill it in.
I change the dodge to 100% and add some shine and then I add just alittle more and actually click it twice, so it is almost white.
We are almost done! We have to color the leave. This is easy, because there isn't too much to color. I just make some dark pixels and some light pixels on it.
And with a little tweak on the stem! We have a shaded tag!!
Add your name and you have a siggy tag!
