As Ken Explains over at his blog, his idea for this week (I’m behind, I’ll catch up more when I’ve moved back to Iowa) is based on a tutorial found at…
http://10steps.sg/tutorials/photoshop/making-a-beautiful-pair-of-fantasy-eyes/
The picture I used was found on flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohwhiskers/4119274866/ .
The sparkly eyes show up better in the full size version (which you can see by clicking on the left picture). I may revisit this to put stamps on it, but couldn’t find anything that I felt really fit. The most beneficial thing I got to practice was color correcting using adjustment layers, and tinkering around with brush settings. I think color correcting before putting on the paints and sparkles, etc., actually looked best, but then I wouldn’t know about brush effects (in particular, scattering the brush stroke) . Biggest difficulty was blending blue and white colors so that it didn’t look too sloppy.
I’ll probably revisit this post when I’m a little less tired. My sleep schedule is not what it should be.
