The Art of Poser and Photoshop- P7: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 | 168 The Art of Poser and Photoshop The Official Guide 6. Change the gradient s blend mode to Hard Light to give it a better sense of transparency as well as to accentuate the effect. Duplicate this layer and use the Free Transform tool Ctrl T Command T to position light streaks so that they appear to be spilling off in a circular direction from the model. See Figure . Figure Apply the gradient streaks around the perimeter of the model Give the Goddess Wings 1. Go to the tutorials ch3 folder and open the left file. Place this image below the light effect layers so that glows appear to emanate from the wing. Use the Warp command choose Edit Transform Warp and distort the wing so that it extends forward from behind the light goddess. Next apply a smart filter choose Filters Convert to Smart Filters to the layer of motion blur to give the wing some movement. Use the mask associated with the smart filter to restrict the effect to the upper half of the wing. See Figure . 2. Following the instructions in step 1 add a wing to the left side of the character. See Figure . 3. Let s add some hair to the character through a custom brush that you will create in Photoshop. You are going to create a brush that will make straight hair see Figure . If you clump straight hair together in your hand and take scissors and cut it and look down at it what shapes do you imagine you would see You would see a series of little circles. So create a new file that is 2x2 inches and has a resolution of 100 PPI. Chapter 3 Posing and Perspective 169 Figure Create the wing and apply a motion blur and smart filter Figure Create a wing for the other side of the character 170 The Art of Poser and Photoshop The Official Guide Figure Create the straight hair brush Using the paintbrush lay down a series of dots and make sure that your foreground color is black. Photoshop will use black and white information to create a brush from any shape where black is the .
