Hi all, I finaly did it, sat down and gave this painting a change. I would love some help here, you know light, shadow and stuff.... BH :

ask the poser people who dedicate themselves to poser :P

Sorry about that, but I have seen some great ps painters here, and all I'm aksing about is the photoshop painting. well I guess I will post this in Poser...

nah im sure people will answer with good replies..i just dont know the answer. All I was saying was poser people might now more bout it since that is what they do. No need to be sorry its a good question.

Overall, very good work on the hair and dress to this stage. I've seen much worse from folks at this stage.
Here's a few suggestions for you:

1. I presume you created the hair and dress on separate layers...? Add a shadow layer for the hair layer, nudge it a few pixels to one side and down, to match the shadow direction shown for the dress folds. You'll need to do a bit of layer masking and a tiny bit of image warp to make it conform to the 'depth' of the underlying figure--ie., where it lays flat against the chest area use less distance between the shadow and the hair strands which 'cast' that shadow, and conversely, more distance where the body recedes from the hair (such as the right shoulder area). Ditto for the fine shadows of the lacing at the throat.

2)You have shadows laid in for the folds of the dress in the skirt area. You also need to add overall shading and brightness to avoid the flatness of the basic color across the entire dress.....since the light is indicated as coming from the left, the left side of the figure and dress should be lighter overall than the right side.

3)Not really sure about that wind-blown side of the skirt hem. Is the dress supposed to be one of those slant-cut things where one side drapes down to the floor? Try to visualize how the skirt would fall if there were no wind, and decide if that's how the dress would actually react to wind. (This one is really a judgement call and not a painting issue....)

Hope these suggestions help. These are just a few suggestions.

I would like to add a suggestion. Make a layer that will serve as an indicator of your light source. Make a series of lines in perspective that would be the direction of the light rays. I would use some bright neon color and use this to guide you in determining where to place your highlights and shadows.

I hope this makes sense,
Yo

I hope to see more postings from people who do their main work in something outside of Photoshop.

I first posted to this Forum a couple of weeks back and put in for a broadcast of all postings to the forum. Inside two weeks, you make posting three and I was one of them (it's really quiet here).

My next logical step will be for G.I. Joe to do Barbie (hey better her than Ken) with making Rhino models for Poser. I know nothing about poser but expect to learn allot from people like you. So please, post away....

It's a very nice dress!

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My hat goes off to anyone with the talent & tenacity to take on the task of painting with photoshop. Great start begga, keep at it & post the results for us to see along the way. As for Rosemaryr & yomah, you're what makes a forum great...thanks! This link is for a discussion I posted over in photography that was relevant to photoshop painting. ~spidey