[junipaire]

Hi

Does anyone have any good tips or tutorials about lighting they wouldn't mind sharing, just can't seem to get that nice artistic lighting that good portraits have. What lighting methods do you use, I have Painter IX and Photoshop 7 are there any decent lighting effect to be used with these to create good shadows.

The picture I did the other day of two of my brothers dogs looks good but needs lighting of the background better as it looks like they are just placed in that background as I got rid of the original grassy field they were in to try and create a more artist background.

Also what brush in painter or photoshop creates a good background, what does everyone use here.

Just wondered anyway if anyone had any tips.

Philip

[Jin]

Hi Philip,

It would help to see the image you're working on, so if you can post it that'd be good.

Any brush variant, or combination of brush variants, can be used to paint a background, just as they can to paint anything else.

It all depends on the look you're after so, in addition to posting your image, how about telling us what you want it to look like.

Maybe post the links to some examples, too.


Jinny Brown
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Tutorials and Painter Info at PixelAlley

[junipaire]

Hi Jin I posted a link to the pic. I like the dogs but the background I wanna learn more of a arty background and to get the shadows of the dogs in the background. I guess the look i'm after would be a sutle intersting background but not to take anything away from the dogs.

Philip

http://www.visionz.plus.com/Polly%20and%20Bud%20for%20web.jpg