[FrstyCow]

Okay, I am not an artist by any means but found myself sitting at my adobe photoshop and I was just goofing around, the next thing I know I have this arm. Well an artist friend of mine likes how it looks and says hey, Ill pay you to work my art like that, but can you add veins to the pic so I can see what it looks like. Okay I say, seems simple enough, well I can't get the veins to look even remotely close to anything that might be right. Can any of you help me out and show me how to do good veins.

here's the arm.
http://members.theglobe.com/frstygrphix/frosty/page34.html

[Lukias]

I can't work it and repost due to not having a site, but veins don't tend to be very prominent on that side of the arm anyway. More so on the other side of the forearm.

look at your own, even better- sqeeze your wrist hard & clench and unclench your hand repeatedly, check out the veins protrude from your arm, from this look at the shadows and directions they take.
Theres a slight *general* pattern they take. Veins I asume are there due to evolution, if you had them on that side they'd be exposed to all sorts of things and severed veins are messy "MY GOD THERES BLOOD EVERYWHERE!!!!".

slight tip - shade more where the viens intersect and shade one side of the vein more depending which side faces you more. (even though it may face direct it looks better and is easier to get a satisfactory result....IMHO)

[Matt Elder]

create a new layer in the channels pallete. On the new layer in the channels pallete, use an airbrush and draw viens where you want them to be.

1) Go Render > lighting effects.
down the bottom select the channel you painted the viens on. Play around with the settings until you have what you like, hit ok

or

2) With the channel selected that you painted the viens on, right click and duplicate layer. In the drop down menu choose "new". Hit ok. This should open the channel in a new file. name, save and close the file. go back to the file with the arm. Select Filter>distort> displace. Choose 10% for both horizontal and vertical scale. Select the file you just saved and closed, hit OK.

Now just play around with combinations and variations of this until you are happy. Just a suggestion.

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Matt
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