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Beginner’s Guide to Digital Painting Part 4 Chapter 5 - Photo Textures, Quick Masks, Using the Wand Tool, Liquify Filter uses, Layer Masks - and Painting! Software Used: Photoshop Introduction We’ve done so much over the past few months that some of you may probably ask, “What more is there to learn?!” Sure, what we’ve covered is more than enough to get us by, but there is always more. Never, ever believe you’re done learning. The moment we stop learning and developing what we already know, we start to stagnate, and to stagnate in art means to … just disappear. In this chapter, we’ll have a look at utilizing photos as custom brushes to add some cool realistic textures into a painting, and we’ll also be looking at some tools that help us isolate and extract elements from images, the Layer Masks, and the rather fun Liquify Filter. So, let’s jump right back into the deep end and continue where we left off in the last chapter! released a free texture and reference library I’ve turned it into several brushes (Fig.01a) Fun with Photos and filled with royalty free photos which is worth ready to be used. Of course, one brush would Filters a look: ). There be perfectly fine, but to get a less “patterned” We’ve learnt that photos can be useful, as they are also websites out there that offer pre-made texture, several brushes are best as they won’t are in the last installment, but there is another royalty free texture brushes, but the ones I‘ve form an obvious repeat in the texture. way of working with them that I personally find encountered so far have left a lot to be desired. more appealing (maybe because I just can’t “do” But hey, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any out So let’s add a new layer over the cliffs. This photos in paintings