CStrauss opened this issue on May 02, 2010 · 9 posts
Lucie posted Mon, 03 May 2010 at 3:51 PM
Do you paint it all on the same layer?
I personally find it a whole lot easier to paint the base color on one layer, the shadows on a second layer and the highlights on a third one. The layer's blend mode for the shadows I set to multiply or color burn and the layer's blend mode for the highlights I set to color dodge. It's much easier this way to adjust if you find you've made your shadows too strong or your highlights too bright.
So first I paint the base color, once it's done I select it with the magic wand, create a new layer for the shadows, paint those in inside the selection with a darker color, smudge if necessary and proceed the same way for the highlights only with a lighter color.
If you find your shadows or highlights too strong, then with the eraser's opacity set to a low percentage (like 30%) and a soft brush, you can erase a bit of it which is less of a pain then trying to dodge or burn and smudge and paint all on the same layer to soften them to get it all to look right.