Esoterica Eroticus

Now that we have these abrupt progressions of color, it's time to smooth them out. We use the Gaussian Blur Filter (in the Blur submenu, in the Filters menu). We have to experiment with the settings, to achieve a good blend, yet keep the hues clear. When we have the nice blend we seek, it's time to trim the fat. We go back to the previous layer, where the base colors are at, and select the base color of the shadows we're working on. We go back to the messy shadow layer we're working on, then Invert the selction. This will cut out all the messy edges of our shadows, when he press the Delete key. The picture on the left shows this. So we continue with these steps, to add shading to all our sections of color.
	We continue to use new layers for each section of color, for maximum control. If you're using a computer that isn't cutting edge, you can speed things up a bit by Merging layers of shadow whenever possible. When there's a layer that looks done, Merge it with the previous one. You can't go back on that step after a while, so be careful! To add some hilights, we do the same thing, only now with lighter colors. We take the base dark blue fur, and change its Luminesence (aka Brightness) value to a higher number. Then we paint it in a new layer. You should use a Normal mode, and continue 'stepping' thru the colors, for better control. It doesn't quite work like in Multiply mode. The image on the right shows the results of shadows and highlights being added.

Now that we have these abrupt progressions of color, it's time to smooth them out. We use the Gaussian Blur Filter (in the Blur submenu, in the Filters menu). We have to experiment with the settings, to achieve a good blend, yet keep the hues clear. When we have the nice blend we seek, it's time to trim the fat. We go back to the previous layer, where the base colors are at, and select the base color of the shadows we're working on. We go back to the messy shadow layer we're working on, then Invert the selction. This will cut out all the messy edges of our shadows, when he press the Delete key. The picture on the left shows this. So we continue with these steps, to add shading to all our sections of color.

We continue to use new layers for each section of color, for maximum control. If you're using a computer that isn't cutting edge, you can speed things up a bit by Merging layers of shadow whenever possible. When there's a layer that looks done, Merge it with the previous one. You can't go back on that step after a while, so be careful! To add some hilights, we do the same thing, only now with lighter colors. We take the base dark blue fur, and change its Luminesence (aka Brightness) value to a higher number. Then we paint it in a new layer. You should use a Normal mode, and continue 'stepping' thru the colors, for better control. It doesn't quite work like in Multiply mode. The image on the right shows the results of shadows and highlights being added.