Tutorials
Lightning
1. I chose the caps and positioned them on a brown background. Then I masked the areas I wanted to be invisible:
2. In order to make Spike's figure more 'effulgent', I added one more screencap with rays, masked its edges and set it on soft light:
3. And one more, this time on screen:
4. Then I created a new layer and pressed ctrl+shift+alt+E. (This command makes a screenshot of all visible layers without merging them.) Then I applied radial blur filter to the new layer and masked the areas where I didn't need the effect to be:
5. Then copied this layer and set it on screen to make the pic brighter:
6. And added one more screencap with rays, because... well, because I wanted so. I masked the edges of the rays cap and set it on screen:
7. Again new layer and ctrl+shift+alt+E. Then motion blur filter:
8. I copied the blurred layer and set both on soft light and masked them where I wanted:
9. Now to the fun! (I discovered this technique myself and really like it ) I made a new layer and set it on soft light. Then I chose big, very soft round brush and light colour and began to paint over the places I wanted to brighten up (such as William's fingers):
10. And rays (the other, screened layer):
11. And some shadows to hide the defects of the caps (and of my sloppy blending):
12. Then colour fixing. Custom gradient map on soft light, twice, again with masking:
13. And again some painting:
14. Then I added text:
15. New layer and ctrl+shift+alt+E again. After all my colour experiments, the image went pixely and a little too blurry, so I used Improver (filter from Xero) and smudge tool to clean it up:
16. Then I added a couple of my pre-made textures:
17. And finally, I flattened the image and applied KPT Equalizer filter to add some sharpness and contrast. Here's the result:
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I usually use the same scenario when I make fanart. Hope this was helpful!
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