There are tons of postwork tutorials out there, for hair, clothing and general appearance of an image, some even in the RMP, some sold at Amazon. I was wondering if anyone out there has found a great tutorial, free or bought, that they wouldn't mind sharing where they got it. My Photoshop levels are between basic and intermediate and I have PS: CS. I want to try my hand at cloth painting and I'm looking for some good tutorials, and any tut's on hair or general postwork especially making an image look painted as opposed to near photo realistic.  Thanks!

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Tihomir

You may want to do a search regarding more traditional artistic techniques when it comes to painting things such as cloth and hair and try to apply them to Photoshop.

Thanks for your advice and links :)

Start buying copies of ImagineFX Magazine - sounds like you're trying to get better at more traditional painting skills (which is where the post-work will come in), and this is TONS of digital painting advice in both Painter and Photoshop.

Once you get some tuts for hair (yes, there are a lot out there, and this advice goes for women's hair), get a couple of magazines that showcase women's haircuts - yes that sounds bluntly obvious, but there's no better reference than real life shapes and colors. As for lighting, with practice you'll get better and better at it, and most of it will become obvious when you paint it even though your lighting is different than the photograph you're referencing.

At first your stuff is gonna suck - just expect it. It'll take more than a few times to get a flow you like, and then you'll start seeing your paintings come together - it's all about practice practice practice!

Good luck and have fun!
-Lew ;-)

Thank you Lew, you had lots of great ideas! I do have that magazine actually, and it's FANTASTIC...very pricey but I get it each month, and good quality too! I just wish that they sometimes run a little more detailed tutorials on hair and cloth, or offered them on their web site as to a print copy. Perhaps a tutorial on hair that's portrait style, hair in action, etc. I'll go through all my copies of IFX and see if they've printed something like that. And the hair magazine is another excellent idea that I never thought about! 

What about stock pictures with fabric ideas? Have a site that's good? or skim through DeviantArt? 

Getting over that "oh now that looks like crap!" reaction when painting is the biggie, and hard to keep that part of the brain occupied or closed off while trying to be artsy. 

Thanks again Lew and everyone else who answered this thread :)

There's a great site of textures - which are all photographs - www.cgtextures.com You can use them as an overlay and paint, or an overlay of the texture itself for a different kinda feel - totally up to your tastes.

It's free - you have a 15MB download limit per day - and they have lots of images (including fabrics) in every category you can think of. You CAN get a subscription where your dowload limit goes up significantly - I think it starts at $80 per year for 100MB per day downloads.

Glad these can help - have fun!
-Lew ;-)

Great! thanks for sharing the link :) I'm gonna check it out now.

That's a really cool site Lew. Thank you for sharing. :thumbupboth:

You're very welcome - I just wish there was a way to buy them in "lots" on CD or DVD...

On the website of 3dtotal.com, go to the shop and browse for an ebook called 'Elements V1' and there is also a second edition.
These ebooks are of the same quality like ImagineFX but with a better price.
On http://www.2dartistmag.com/3dtotal/  you will find ebooks for 2D too - there are Lite versions free for download so you can check out the issue before buying them. With a price tag of 4.50 dollar, it is a steal!

Also, do a search on Deviantart for more free tutorials on digital painting...
Have fun!
Jacqueline