Painting Cloth and Hair in Photoshop Page 1 This tutorial  is designed to help paint cloth and hair and it assumes you have  a basic working knowledge of Photoshop. You may also follow using Paint Shop Pro or any image program that utilizes Layers. I have included additional steps taken outside of cloth and hair painting  to illustrate the entire process from the completed Poser render to the Completed Postworked image. Figures/Models used in this tutorial: Victoria 2 [DAZ3D] with my Maria  Character/Texture package [Renderosity  Marketplace] Printemps Hair by Neftis [Renderosity  Marketplace] Jewelry from LaDiva by MnD Productions [Free] Lights used in Poser are from the Suite Package by SkoolDaze [Renderosity Marketplace] I don't have any *one* method of postworking an image but tend to experiment  with different things for each image. I'm sure there are many methods to achieving the same goal and this tutorial is not meant to say that my methods are the right way or the only way, just that these are the steps I took to arrive at my finished image. If you're just interested in the hair painting portion of this tutorial, click  here to skip the cloth painting techniques. I rendered two copies of my model at an image size of 2048 X 2048: one with shadows on and one with shadows off, saved as TIF images. In Photoshop,  selected the Alpha Channel of each image and copied each to a new 2048 X 2048 image. Using the airbrush and a blue color for contrast against the skin color I began drawing lines for the outline of the cloth. I wanted the cloth to give the  appearance of being "wings" so painted the rough outline. On a new layer behind the outline using a larger airbrush and a lighter blue I began painting the fill color. Then merged the two cloth layers down into one layer. Now comes the  fun part! :) Here I began using the smudge/smear tool set at 80%  pressure with a 35 pixel round brush to start pulling the color together and create "folds" in the color that appear to  be fabric. The lighter color blue and white that you see was painted  on with small strokes using a small airbrush and then smeared into  the cloth. I also start varying the pressure of the smear tool between 75 and 90% as well as the brush size between 27 pixels and 45 pixels and just keep pushing, pulling, and adding highlight and shadow. At this point, I don't use Dodge and Burn for color variation because I prefer  the softness and the many color tones achieved by using lighter  and darker versions of one color -- in this case, blue. Painting cloth is stress relief for me and takes me hours and hours. While I'm  painting I try to visualize actual cloth in front of me and try to "arrange" it with the smear tool. It also helps to  look at a real draped cloth or towel or photos and paintings of  cloth for reference. Tutorials Next Page   what’s new | tutorials | galleries | downloads | products | the artist   Previous | List   Random | Next Previous 15 | Previous Site   Next Site | Next 15 Questions? Comments?  Contact! Site Map All Graphics, Design and Written Content ©Lisa Buckalew/Mystical Modality 2002