I will give you a detailed analysis of photoshop software to share with you the tutorial on mouse painting a simple luminous dragonfly pattern.
Tutorial sharing:
1. First, let's make the right wing. The effect to be done is shown in the figure.
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2. Create a 1000*1000 pixel canvas with a resolution of 72 pixels/inch, and fill the background with black. Create a new group, draw the outline path of the wings with a pen, convert it to a selection area, and add a layer mask to the group, as shown in the following figure.
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3. Create a new layer in the group, select the gradient tool, and set the color to yellow to orange red, as shown in figure 3. Then pull the linear gradient shown in figure 4.
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4. Change the opacity of the layer to 30%. The effect is shown in the following figure.
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5. Create a new layer, use a pen to show the path shown in the figure below, convert it to the selected area, and pull the linear gradient above. Do not cancel the selected area after the gradient is pulled; select the rectangular box selection tool, press the arrow keys to the left and down, then press the Delete key to Delete the selected area Image, and then cancel the selection, as shown in figure 8.
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6. Create a new layer, and use a pen to show the right edge highlight selection area. The area is scaled to 5 pixels and then the color gradient is pulled. After the selection is canceled, the effect is shown in the figure below.
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7. Use the pen tool to draw the selection area shown in the following figure along the edge. After two pixels are formed, press Ctrl + J to copy the color block of the selection area to the new layer, change the mixed mode to "color fade", with the effect of figure 11.
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8. Create a new layer, use a pen to show the middle part of the highlight selection area, and remove two pixels and then pull the color gradient, as shown in Figure 12. After the gradient is pulled, do not cancel the selection. Choose> modify> contract from the menu. The value is 1, after confirmation, press Ctrl + J to copy the color block of the selected area to the new layer blending mode and change it to "color fades". The effect is shown in Figure 13.
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9. Create a new layer and use the same method to make other highlights of the center and edge, as shown in figure 14th and 15.
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10. Create a new layer on the top of the layer to add some highlights to the outer edge of the wings, as shown in Figure 16-20.
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11. Create a new layer, hide the background layer, and press Ctrl + Alt + Shift + E to print the layer. The effect is shown in the following figure.
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12. Copy the stamped wings to several layers and adjust the positions as appropriate. The left wings should be flipped horizontally to form a pair of wings, as shown in the figure below.
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13. Create a new layer and create the middle trunk in the same way, as shown in the following figure.
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14. Create a color balance adjustment layer to adjust the highlight. The parameters and effects are shown in the following figure.
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15. Create a brightness/contrast adjustment layer and add the contrast as needed. The parameters and effects are shown in the following figure.
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Finally, cover the layer, adjust the angle, modify the details, and complete the final effect.
All right, the above information is the detailed mouse painting and sharing of all the content for users of this software of photoshop, you can see that the user here, Xiaobian believes that you are now very clear about the painting method, the main difficulty is the use of the path and the production of highlight, painting method is not difficult, use a tool to draw the shape of the wings, fill in the background color, and then make the highlight part, then everyone will go to the small series to share their own to draw a try.
