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Dragón de Fuego - Preparación

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Así, el proceso de diseñar un wallpaper de un Dragón de Fuego no está lleno de interesantes consejos y trucos. En realidad era 24 horas de dibujo con cepillos de diferentes tamaños y colores. Como siempre, para empezar, necesitamos un fondo. Elegimos un rojo oscuro para el color frontal, negro para el color de fondo. Seleccione la Herramienta de degradado, elija tipo Radial, llenar el documento arrastrando el mouse de abajo a arriba de imagen. Las montañas en el fondo son muy fáciles de hacer - son simples formas negras hechas con la herramienta Pluma. Entonces, selecciona la Pluma y haz la forma :-) Crea una nueva capa, selecciona la herramienta Pincel con 0% de dureza, y pinta como la imagen, tocando el borde de la montaña. Crea una máscara de recorte (desde el menú Capa). La montaña está lista. El mismo camino, crea tantas montañas como quieras. El mismo dragón consiste de 2 pastes: un pincel suave y otro duro (contorno). Sin más comentarios, quiero mostrarles los pinceles suaves, capa por capa. Empieza con un pincel suave muy grande de color rojo oscuro (puedes aplicar Desenfoque Gaussiano igualmente), y con cada nueva capa, usa un pincel más chico, con más colores claros y cambialo desde el rojo hasta el amarillo. Siguiente capa... Siguiente capa... Siguiente capa... Siguiente capa... Siguiente capa... Finally, here goes real Photoshop trick! The soft brushes are good for background colors, and hard brushes are good for outlines, but neither are good enough to draw fire. I tried using my tablet pressing hard brush gently, but I ended up with dragon made of fur, not fire :-) So I started playing with changing settings of default Photoshop brushes. Finally, I achieved something that satisfied me (I realize it is not perfect but drawing fire takes a lot of skills, I am only starting my way to it). You can download tool preset and try this brush yourself. DOWNLOAD TOOL PRESET. Using this brush, make some strokes around the edges of dragon... (on this image, I show only this layer on black background, so you can better see how this brush looks) And then set layer mode to Overlay, and duplicate layer. This is the result, shown with all layers visible. Next trick is usually used in tutorials like Make your own Aqua OSX wallpaper! But I found I wanted this effect here too. Set color to grey (HEX 808080). With pen tool, create a shape of dragon. Set layer mode to Overlay. Because layer is grey, it will become invisible - do not worry! :-) Create new layer, and with black and white large soft brushes, put some dots here and there. Then, Create clipping mask (from layer menu). Magically, the brush is masked by vector layer, and inherited overlay! You can repeat the same steps to create additional curve inside wings. And, use the same technique to make dragon head (or, unlike me, you could do it on previous step! That would be wiser :-) This is how the head looks when I set shape layer mode to Overlay, then add black and white brush dots, and create clipping mask. Use Pen tool to add white eye, then set its layer mode to Overlay too. Here goes most fun and time-consuming part: outlines. For next steps below, I made outlines with small hard white brush, then set layer mode to Overlay. This is how it looks with layer mode = overlay... next layer... hitting my tablet with pen a lot :-) setting layer mode to overlay... next layer... setting layer mode to overlay... Next step - volcano. As with previous mountains, set color to black, and use Pen tool to make a shape of a mountain. In new layer, use large soft brushes (from dark red to gold) to fill mountain with color. Create clipping mask (from layer menu). Apply gaussian blur if needed. Add lava in the same way as with dragon wings - with small white hard brush. You guessed it right! set layer mode to overlay :-) The final touch is clouds above the volcano (to tell the truth, I added clouds to hide transition between volcano and dragon :-) I was not happy with it). Create new document, with width twice more than height. set foreground to white and background to black. Then apply Clouds filter (Filters menu - Render). select central part of image, as shown here. Transform (Ctrl-T), holding Alt key, and stretch selection to fill entire document. (like this) Enable Quick Mask (Q key), apply Clouds filter again, disable Quick Mask (Q key again). You should get selection similar to this. Fill selection with black color (simply hit Ctrl-Backspace for that). Then, set Auto Levels (Ctrl-Shift-L). Do that again - enable quick mask, apply Clouds filter, disable quick mask, fill selection with black, set auto levels (or, in shortcuts - Q, Ctrl-F, Q, Ctrl-Backspace, Ctrl-Shift-F). Now we need to remove black from this image. To do so, select all (Ctrl-A), copy (Ctrl-C), enable quick mask (Q), paste (Ctrl-V), disabled quick mask (Q). Note how white parts are selected. Invert selection (Ctrl-Shift-I) and delete (Del). Then open Hue/Saturation window (Ctrl-U), and set lightness to 100. You should get white clouds on transparent background. Copy and paste clouds into our artwork. switch to Eraser tool (E). select very large soft brush, and erase edges of clouds layer, so that clouds start to actually look like clouds. Open Hue/Saturation window again (Ctrl-U). set lightness to -40 .. -50, saturation to 80..90. Then play with Hue to get vivid red clouds. Repeat all steps to create another layer with clouds (only, do not make them red this time). Then add another layer with clouds, and another one :-) That's all! Thanks for reading!