First of all, if I am putting together "pieces" it takes many more layers than if I was taking a screen cap or a single picture and using that. Say I was putting Spike into a picture. I would probably have a separate layer for his hair, face, neck, eyes, possibly lips or teeth, shirt, jacket, jeans, shoes, hands. That's so I could easily color and highlight each of those components separately. Then if I am using Spike's head on someone else's body, I need a lot more layers to get his face and the body the same shade. Then if I've got another character in the picture, it's the same thing. Then I've got background, and other objects. Then I have a lot of layers that color the entire picture or give it texture. Quite often, I'll have layers that are just adjustments to little tiny parts of the picture like maybe a tiny shadow or highlight. This is why I can't post very often!
On that picture I did for you of the Buffyverse girls? I should show you what it looked like when I first started it and you would have an appreciation of all of the fiddling it took to get the skin tones to coordinate. Plus I had to go out and look for outfits for each of them! Selena Gomez was very helpful with this endeavor. :)
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Date: 2014-06-17 10:51 pm (UTC)First of all, if I am putting together "pieces" it takes many more layers than if I was taking a screen cap or a single picture and using that. Say I was putting Spike into a picture. I would probably have a separate layer for his hair, face, neck, eyes, possibly lips or teeth, shirt, jacket, jeans, shoes, hands. That's so I could easily color and highlight each of those components separately. Then if I am using Spike's head on someone else's body, I need a lot more layers to get his face and the body the same shade. Then if I've got another character in the picture, it's the same thing. Then I've got background, and other objects. Then I have a lot of layers that color the entire picture or give it texture. Quite often, I'll have layers that are just adjustments to little tiny parts of the picture like maybe a tiny shadow or highlight. This is why I can't post very often!
On that picture I did for you of the Buffyverse girls? I should show you what it looked like when I first started it and you would have an appreciation of all of the fiddling it took to get the skin tones to coordinate. Plus I had to go out and look for outfits for each of them! Selena Gomez was very helpful with this endeavor. :)