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Another important method that I use is the masking.
I try to work with a small number of layers to avoid having a big chaos among them. The disadvantage of this is that there are several subjects on one layer.
Masking helps a lot in painting the details. I used this method for example when painting the hands and the stripes of the T-shirt. It also helps a lot in creating backlights.
First I painted the T-shirt without stripes, and then came the stripes, the mask and finally the lights and the shades on the stripes.
After finishing the main subjects, I concentrated on the background and the components that improve the composition. At this point it becomes important that the figures are on a layer separated from the background.
The final phase is the contrast and the correction of colours. I darkened the colours, sharpened the contrast and added some more red to it. Here I used adjustment layer – over the layers.
I hope that I managed to give you some useful pieces of advice from my making. Don’t hesitate to email me your suggestions and queries.
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