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Cloned Portrait / Repaint Face and Finish Edges

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I'm going to try something to soften the effect on the hair, and it's going to be the fiber cloner which looks a lot like the nervous pen. And I'm going to try to do all this in one stroke, because what I have in mind is to go to the fade command in the edit menu and fade this, oh, about 50%. Let's click OK. And we still have this wonderful curly effect, but it has been softened somewhat. So I would like to keep that effect, and now I'm going to turn my attention to the face once again. And I'm going to use the magnifier tool and drag to the face so that becomes what we are seeing at a larger magnification. I want less detail and what's going to help me do that is the smeary flat cloner. So, by doing some strokes that very importantly must follow the contours of the face, we are going to get less detail; if you don't like what a particular stroke is doing just stroke again, maybe in a slightly different direction or beginning with a different pixel, different location. It's a little bit too much eyebrow, let's try that, it is too dark; just go over it again beginning with a lighter area, and let's see what this looks like at a 100% magnification. It's very difficult to know when to quit doing a particular technique. We'll click on the magnifier tool to get back to 100% and now I think we can see where we need to do little bit more work. I'd like to possibly enlarge this brush just a little bit, and keep doing some of these strokes till I'm satisfied. It might never happen. Close enough. I can always zoom in and touch this up even further if I so desire, and that perhaps can be done with an ordinary smeary tool, such as the grainy water tool, where I am no longer picking up information from the clone source: I'm just smearing the pixels that are already there. So, that gives me a little more control and back to 100% size A tiny bit more smoothing on the neck, and I think I'm satisfied with the face at this point and with the hair pretty much. One thing that I still need to do is deal with those edges So, I want to zoom out and go in there with a non-cloner brush - in the brushes group, there is a dry ink brush that I like a lot. And I am going to pick up color from the existing image, in this case the green, and I'll make some strokes that will enable me to create that vignette-kind of look. Another brush that can do similar effects is the captured bristle. I'll choose this orange with the captured bristle - go in there like so, and maybe with white, start to contain some of that upper edge and I think we are nearly there. I want to get a vignette effect by eliminating that bottom color. And at a 100%, come on now, 100% - we see the finished product, and it doesn't look a whole lot like the version that I made before. Let's just compare those. There's my earlier version and my current version, and your mileage may vary.

Tutorial Information

Course: Painter 7 Techniques
Author: Rhoda Grossman
SKU: 33379
ISBN: 1932072071
Release Date: 2002-09-27
Duration: 7 hrs / 118 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: For Online University members only
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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