The Art of Poser and Photoshop- P6:Before you dive into the first chapter, be sure to download the content and images from . You will see the title of the book in bold and below that, you will find the files you need. Please download the files for each chapter and place them into a main folder named Tutorials. You will be asked to reference the images from that folder as you work through the tutorials throughout the book. Of course you will need Poser Pro and Photoshop CS4 as well | 138 The Art of Poser and Photoshop The Official Guide 5. Now is time to apply the finishing touches to the landscape. You re going to add some more clouds so that they look like they re coming out toward the camera into the foreground. This will give the scene a stronger sense of depth. Simply duplicate your cloud layer several times and use your Warp and Transform tools to alter the shapes as shown in Figure . Figure Transform your cloud layers As you place each cloud layer on top of one another the scene begins to take on the appearance of mist coming toward the viewer. Use your layer masks and your paintbrush to edit each layer to get your own concept of what the cloud bank will look like as shown in Figure . Keep in mind that your results will be slightly different from what you see here however the concept is the same. When you re finished save this file as so that you can use it as a backdrop to import into Poser. Chapter 3 Posing and Perspective 139 Figure Duplicate and add a mask to each cloud layer Liy x PMhS Channels . Ncm - Optty MQ Creating the Light Goddess in Poser Pro In this section you are going to construct the light goddess by posing a 3D character in Poser Pro and editing the UV map used to create the skin texture of the model. When posing your character you can select a body part and use your mouse to reposition it. However you might find that the Parameter dials make this task a lot easier at first. Once the initial pose is set you can manually fine-tune the adjustments with your mouse. Play with this and develop the workflow that is best for you. As a result of the work in this section her body will glow with light and energy will flow from the palms of her hands as she rises above a coastal landscape. 1. Access the figure library and open the Sydney G2 model as shown in Figure . 2. As you edit the UV map you need to be able to see how the textures are being applied in Open GL. Open GL allows for the the .
