Week 2 Demos

I chose to do the Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator demos as I have never used any of the four different mediums before (Photoshop painting, Illustrator, Zbrush, physical sculpture), but I think that Photoshop and Illustrator will probably be the easiest to learn in such a short space of time.


Photoshop Demo Notes:

Have ‘Navigator’ open so you can always see a thumbnail of the full work

to rotate your canvas use ‘r’
‘b’ for Brush
‘e’ for Eraser
square brackets for brush size (left for decreasing and right for increasing)
numbers for percentage of opacity (e.g. 2 = 20%)

Brush - Shape Dynamics = Your pen pressure changes the thickness of the lines (make sure its on ‘pen pressure')
Brush - Transfer  (Make sure its on ‘pen pressure’)

Filter - Liquify’ = To warp images

Different Brushes

Using 'Liquify' to warp Scarlett Johansson

Painting in Photoshop from Scarlett Johansson Reference

Illustrator Demo Notes:

(In Photoshop) Layer - Flatten Image = To make only one layer

Object - Image Trace - Make and Expand = To make vector
Using the white arrow select the background and delete it
Using the white arrow select a line and then use 'Select - Same - Fill and Stroke' to pick up all of the line work
Colour - (Drop down menu) - CMYK

Hold down ‘shift’ while clicking to select multiple areas that are cut off by line work
Use the white arrow to select single pieces of the image
Colour - (Drop down menu) - CMYK

You can copy and paste from Illustrator to Photoshop
When you paste a Illustrator layer into Photoshop, right click and rasterize it to make it no longer a vector (back to pixels)

Use ‘Magic Wand’ tool to select
When you have your selection, make a new layer, use the colour picker to choose the colour, change that colour in your swatches, then press ‘option-delete’
Use Masks
Select the Mask on the Layer and use the paint brush to add/take away
In Masks - Black takes away and White adds (the colour swatches)

Polar Bear Exercise

In Photoshop: Flatten the image, adjust the brightness and contrast to get the lightest background while still maintaining dark lines, use the magic wand to get rid of the background.

The Photoshop file is now ready for Illustrator!

The result in Illustrator

The final Polar Bear in Photoshop after using masks to create highlights and shadows