P_6 Basic Masking & Lighting Techniques |
| With Layer 1 active, press the (K) key to access the fill tool. In the Colors palette select White as your Primary Color. Click inside the layer to fill it. If a gradation shows up change the Fill With box back to Current Color. Your canvas appears empty with a Black and Yellow bounding box (Layer Marquee) around the perimeter (10). Painter 6 defaults with the Layer Marquee in the off position. Press Ctrl + Shift + H to turn it on. In the Objects > Layers palette (8), click on the Menu Icon to access a menu of Layer Options (11). Select Drop and Select and the original Marching Ants will appear on your canvas (12). |
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| Press the (L) key to access the Lasso tool. We want to draw the shapes of the eyes, nose and mouth of our pumpkin. The Lasso tool icon is a circle with a dot in the middle. In 5.n when you move it inside the Marching Ants it turns into a Floater Adjuster tool. In this version it becomes the Selection Adjuster tool (crossed double pointed arrows), so no more inadvertent floaters being made. Press the Shift key and a (+) sign appears to the right of the circle. Use this to add to your existing shape. Press the Ctrl key and a (-) sign appears to the right of the circle. Use this to remove or cut holes in your image. To draw the eyes, nose and mouth press the Ctrl key while drawing. If you don’t like an eye you have drawn, press Ctrl + Z to undo it and draw another. When you are ready click inside the image with the Layer Adjuster tool to create the layer. Mine looks like this (13). In the Colors palette select Orange as your Primary Color and fill the layer, name it Pumpkin (14). Open the eye on the Glow floater and you should have something that looks like this (15). Save your file, name it Pumpkin –1. |
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