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Now that i've got the highlights done, its time to add some effects.

What i've got intended for this picute, is a sort of nighttime picture where its pretty dark aside from some striking highlights and some kool glows given off by his leg boosters. So in order to give that effect, i add another layer and set the opacity to about 60% and select a nice blue-ish color and begin to paint some nyze highlights in their respective places [meaning where they should show!]

Now in order to give off that "glowy" effect, alls i do is i go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur set at about 2.
That should give it a nice soft look that will really enhance the pic

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Now its time for the background!

w00!


Now, what I do for backgrounds is i select that one layer above the original line art bkg layer [the layer you filled white] and create yet another layer above that. From here, since its a sort of dark picture, i'll just fill it black.

I bet you're seeing some out of the lines goof ups eh?
Me too

So what i do to fix it is, its tedious but necessary, go through every individual layer and with my eraser, manually edit it out. Only takes a minute or so but is a must


Now that thats done, i create yet another layer above the black layer and this time i'll use just some dark, cool shades of blue, maybe some red and stuff and use my airbrush [tap "j" to access it] set at about 35% opacity, and just lightly click different areas.

Just remember, what you do here is entirely up to you. You can either fake a bkg like im doing, use some kind of filter, or even copy/paste a jpg of a photograph if you want. Its all up to you

But here, this is where im airbrushing part of the engine glows

All i do is i take a real dark blue and airbrush around the general area
Next i take a slightly lighter blue and do the same only a little more towards the focal points, or wherever the glows are eminating from. I'll do that until i get a nearly white blue

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Now to make the glow really pop, I flatten ALL the layers down to one single layer [after saving the psd file that is. And be sure to save a lot too]

After its all flattened, i create a new transparent layer above that and now i simply add a dark blue around the edges, then proceed to adding lighter colors until i get it right. And if it clouds the picture too much or takes away the details too much, just play with the opacity a bit.

-= Beneath Glows

-=After Flattened Glows

 

Continue on to Part 6