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Photoshop Hard-edged Airbrush, Page 1 of 3
By  Liz Chesterman
I don't often use the ultra-smooth technique of coloring with the airbrush in Photoshop, simply because it's too smooth. This technique uses the airbrush with a harder edge on it.
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The character featured, Fyre Uni, is copyright/property of Kelly Meeks.
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| I start with a simple sketch. First a quick pose, then refining that pose and adding clothing. Sketching is done with the pencil tool at 72dpi for speed. |
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| With the airbrush tool on a low opacity (10-20%), and my tablet settings on vary opacity and size I sketch in the ring of fire. This I will use as a guide to lighting on the character, and overall direction for later when I finish the ring. |
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I use the magic wand with antialias unchecked to select the tail, then CTRL+J to promote that to a new layer, and lock (preserve transparency).
With the airbrush on vary opacity only, I use a medium sized brush with a hardness around 70% to sculpt in dark areas of the tail, then go back to 'sharpen' with a lighter color, then use screen to add highlights.
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Alas, I do not like how the tail looks, so I start over, but with the brush a bit softer.
This time the tail looks to soft.. like clay or bad 3D modeling. My brush settings were softer this time, and I used the push tool. So I scratch this version too, and decide to move on.
I'll come back to the tail again later.
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| Date | Name | Comment | | | 12 Sep 2005 |  Julia Doering |  Loading...I really liked how you did the fire rings and tried the method on one of my comics. It turned out as an improvement, so thank you very much for the help! | |
| 4 Feb 2006 |  PyroBlitz | Loading... Wow, this is very helpful to use... makes CGing things a lot easier then it appears. Thank you very much for the tutorial! | |
| 25 Jun 2006 | Anonymous | Loading... I was wondering what Photoshop version you used... because I can’t find ’airbrush’ anywhere in mine! does paintbrush work in the same way? thanks for the awesome tutorial! Liz Chesterman replies: "Currently I use version CS1, but back then I was probably using version 7. There is indeed a little checkbox in the upper left corner by the opacity and size tools for the Airbrush, plus a Brush tab that has tons of great options to mess with." | |
| 29 Jul 2006 | OB1Knobby <mrknobby@com...net> | Loading... I don't know about what version was used here. But in PhotoShop CS if you choose the Paint brush tool, Then, if you haven't changed your layout, in the upper-left corner you can click the down arrow and change your preset to airbrush. Also, on the right side you'll see "Brushes, Tool Presets, and Layer Comps" as tabs. There are a TON of brush styles in there. | |
| 20 Sep 2007 | Anonymous | Loading... Tried to changed the hardness, but dont know why the Hardness bar disappeared under Master Diameter!
Can anyone tell me how to fix this? | |
| 2 Jan 2009 | Chit Ahim | Loading... Please Where is hard-edged brush in Photoshop? ( I use soft ware no along)Please replay me! Liz Chesterman replies: "A hard edged brush has little to no feathering at the edge. It’s not as aliased as the pencil tool, but not super soft like the airbrushed tool." | |
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