
right arm and the tail kind of absorbs it in the transparancy
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Thu 26 Feb 2009, 22:53,
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would it be easier to keep the transparency at 100% then use the burn/dodge tools to create the lighting effect?
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Thu 26 Feb 2009, 23:13,
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Illusion would then be lost unfortunately I have layers for shadow, layers of overlapping fur sometimes i have layers for no reason other than incase i need to do something different.
its basically a sort of fur overcoat on a high contrast skin layer
without the trasnparancy its more difficult however
i could say use the burn transparency setting.
i used darken transparency on the fith element skwirrel to good effect i havent found an image since i can repeat that on.
I had a plan to make a little tutorial just about how i do them more so people could put me right than anything else
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Thu 26 Feb 2009, 23:22,
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its basically a sort of fur overcoat on a high contrast skin layer
without the trasnparancy its more difficult however
i could say use the burn transparency setting.
i used darken transparency on the fith element skwirrel to good effect i havent found an image since i can repeat that on.
I had a plan to make a little tutorial just about how i do them more so people could put me right than anything else

my rather basic guide to my method is
make a layer for the skin and copy it out
for that layer take the saturation right down then increase the contrast
next take that layer and make a same shape area of fur
paste that fur layer on top of the skin layer and make it slightly transparent i find about 60%-70% is pretty good.
the end effect is having the shape of the person (light and shade of the body) kind of transposed into the fur.
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Thu 26 Feb 2009, 23:30,
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make a layer for the skin and copy it out
for that layer take the saturation right down then increase the contrast
next take that layer and make a same shape area of fur
paste that fur layer on top of the skin layer and make it slightly transparent i find about 60%-70% is pretty good.
the end effect is having the shape of the person (light and shade of the body) kind of transposed into the fur.