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Swirl Girl in Photoshop

Blending Options>Bevel and Emboss

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Gradient’s parameters:

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Blending Options>Stroke

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Gradient’s parameters:

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Insert the texture above the ornament:

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Alt button and click between the texture’s layers and the layer containing the ornament’s element (on the layers’ panel).

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next we’ll represent one more element of the same ornament, applying the Pen Tool (P) and the Convert Point Tool.

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
The Layer Style:
Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
The Layer Style:
Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Gradient’s parameters:

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Blending Options>Stroke

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Choose a standard brush with the Opacity of 10% and select the Eyedropper Tool (I) on a new layer (Create new layer) to take some samples of the colors from the near situated objects around the girl’s body, representing the highlights on her body.

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Press Alt button and click between the layers with the highlights on them and the girl’s layer (on the layers’ panel)

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Create new fill or adjustment layer>Curves

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Create a new layer and choose a standard brush of black color (Opacity 20%) to dark out the girl’s leg.

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
The layer’s parameters:
Fill 80%
Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next we’ll represent several lines for our ornament, drawing firstly their paths. Choose in this case the Pen Tool (P) (Path mode)

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next we’ll represent five new layers (Create new layer) for each line, using on them the standard brush and the colors indicated below (Diameter 3, Hardness 100%). Using the Direct Selection Tool (A), try to mark out the each line and then pass on the Pen Tool (P). Here make a right click on the marked line on Stroke Path (Brush mode).

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Repeat operation for each line.

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set the same parameters for each layer containing the line: Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Click on each layer on the bottom part of the layers’ panel on Add a Mask selection and choose a standard brush of black color to clean out the zones of the near situated girl’s hands, cleaning the lines on the top part.

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Combine in a group all the layers composing the colored lines (Press Ctrl button and mark out the corresponding layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while taking the marked layers on Create a new group option).

Set the next parameters for the group:
(Opacity 82%)

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Next we need to apply the same technology for representing the lines on the other girl’s hand, the one applied earlier when representing the colored lines (create five new layers with the standard brush, using the color indicated below).

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Set the same Layer Style for each layer Blending Options>Drop Shadow (the same we’ve applied for representing the lines on the other hand).

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
Clean out the lines on the hand the same way we did with the lines on the other hand (click on each layer with the line on Add a Mask option and choose the standard brush of black color to clean out the same zones on the lines demonstrated on the picture).

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Learn some very powerful techniques to create swirls in Adobe Photoshop CS4
The final result!

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