Photoshop Mouse Painting Tutorial: Mouse painted transparent ice cubes

This tutorial introduces a very fine mouse painting method for small objects. Ice on the surface of the fine lines and icicle, etc. are very many, these are translucent, depicting the time need a certain degree of patience.

Final effect:


1, open PS Create a new size appropriate document, the background pull blue gradient. Create a new layer, select the Brush tool, set the foreground color to white, brush opacity set to: 60%, first the outline of the ice cubes outlined, the following figure.


2, continue to use the brush tool to draw the various shades of ice, where you should pay attention to the brush's opacity grasp, roughly highlight the level of ice.


3, select the Smudge tool, the previous large color of the transition uneven place to smear, smear the time to pay attention to the texture of the ice, you can choose the splash brush in the brush preset to adjust their desired effect, smear the image.


4, continue to use the Smudge tool and brush tool to depict the texture and details of ice, strengthen the contrast of light and shade.


5, here can use the brush tool or deepen, Dodge tool to continue to decorate the ice, lift the outline of ice cubes, strengthen the texture, make it more three-dimensional.

6, after the depiction, now we get the graphics are more like ice, but still need to be further described, we all know that the usual outdoor ice is not very clean, in order to make it more realistic, we use the brush tool to further decorate.

7, increase contrast and high light.

8, and then use the Smudge tool to apply the texture more hard, here we can use PS preloaded brushes for our ice making texture.

9, texture processing is good, then now to deal with the position of the ice, so that it appears to be standing, we draw a shadow on its bottom, and then blur the shadow, this look at a person's preferences, so that the ice looks real good.

Final effect: