Chapter 23: Painting the Wizard Image

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The tutorial in this chapter is different from any other in this book. Here, we show the whole process from sketch to final image, including all the backtracks, changes of mind, and errors made while the image was painted .

All of the work in this image was done in Photoshop CS.

What You Need to Know about Photoshop for This Chapter

The following tutorial assumes that you know some fundamentals of working in Photoshop CS, such as:

• Where individual palettes are located

• How to adjust a brush's opacity

• How to create Layer Styles

• How to create layers and change their composite method

• How to resize your brush and sample color from within the image (preferably using the hot keys)

• How to create patterns

• How to create brushes

You can arrange the Photoshop workspace to suit your own liking, so this chapter does not discuss where to locate specific items.