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| Evil Tools | |
| In short: definite No-No's if you want to get good painting results. | |
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| Effect Filters | |
| Forget the Filters, pretend they don't exist in your version
of PS. Things like Lens Flare and Motion Blur and Water Ripple and all the
other filter effects you can find - simply erase them from your mind. None
of the filters in Photoshop can possibly substitute a properly painted effect
- such as water ripples or flares. And for God's sake, do not use any of the "artistic" filters; that's like trying to pass off your bus ticket as a Van Gogh. |
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| Smudge Tool | |
| A tool that is dreadfully overused. People use it to smudge their photos to make them look like "paintings", or to "render" colour. That is not what it's there for. The Smudge Tool is an effects tool, and should only be used sparingly, if at all, since it is so blatantly obvious to any trained eye. | |
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| Blur Tool | |
| Some people seem to think edges have to be blurred when they
are painted. If someone or something were to look as blurry as that in real
life, you'd know there is either something terribly wrong with that person
or object, or you should get your eyes tested. Into the same category as the Blur Tool falls the fuzzy (soft) brush. Just... stay away from it as best as you can. |
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| Dodge and Burn Tool | |
| Another alltime favourite. These tools lighten and darken
the colours, infact they burn them, giving them a cheap flat look. Whatever
you do, do NOT use these tools for highlight and shadow effects on whatever
it is you are painting - it hurts. Badly so. These tools again are effect tools, and should be handled with care, if at all. |
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| So, if you want to learn how to paint, just stay clear of any of these. Stick to the paintbrush and eraser - they give you plenty of options already, so play with them. | |
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