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Introduction
This is the final result of this episode, a foggy forest photo with warm sunlight and dark vignette at the edges. Everything is painted using the brush tool on a separate layer. Let's get started. Hello, welcome back to the complete Adobe Photoshop series from Cerdas Inovasi Digital. The brush tool is the most commonly used tool, not only for painting, but also for masking, retouching, and light effects. Today we will understand four of its settings: size, hardness, opacity, and flow.
Step 1: Practice Layer
Open the foggy forest photo. Always paint on a new layer, don't paint directly on the photo. Click the new layer icon and name it 'latihan'. Select the brush tool or press B, then set the foreground color to white.
Step 2: Size and Hardness
The brush size can be quickly changed using the parentheses, closing parenthesis to enlarge, opening parenthesis to reduce. Set hardness to 100% and make one stroke, its edge is sharp. Then change hardness to 0% and stroke again, its edge is soft and fades. For light effects and masking, we almost always use low hardness.
Step 3: Opacity and Flow
Opacity limits how dense one stroke is, while flow controls how quickly the paint stacks when we stroke repeatedly. Lower opacity to 30%, then stroke, the result is thin and consistent. This exercise is enough, delete the 'latihan' layer using the trash icon.
Step 4: Warm Sunlight
Now let's do some real practice. Create a new layer named 'cahaya'. Set the foreground color to light orange FFC 27A, size large around 600 pixels, hardness 0, opacity 60%. Stroke several times in the area between trees, where the light enters.
Step 5: Blend Mode Screen
The orange paint still looks like a stain. Change the blend mode of the 'cahaya' layer to Screen, then the color changes to natural light illuminating the fog. If it's too strong, lower the opacity of the layer to 80%. Create a new layer named 'vignette'.
Step 6: Dark Halo
Foreground color black, size 700, opacity 30%. Gently stroke around the edge of the photo. A darker edge directs the eye towards the center. Compare by turning off and on the eye icon of the second layer.
Step 7: Save
Since the light and vignette are on their own layer, we can change or remove them anytime. Save as PSD, then export JPG.
Done!
Done. We have practiced size with brackets, sharp and soft hardness, opacity and flow, then used it to paint warm light with blend mode screen and dark vignette. In the next episode, we will discuss history, undo, and saving files correctly. Need to edit product photos for marketplace, retouch photos, design posters, or social media content? Cerdas Inovasi Digital provides photo editing and graphic design services, as well as opens Photoshop courses from beginner to advanced. Want to master the entire series? 102 episodes from the interface to the final project? All episodes, complete with PDF step-by-step guides, source images, and layered PSD files, are available for premium tutorial subscribers. Subscribe starting at Rp69.000 per month, save 28% with the 12-month package, or one-time payment of Rp999.000 for lifetime access. Want a single class only? Buy single classes with lifetime access. Subscribe now at the premium page cerdasinovasidigital.com Contact us via WhatsApp, or visit cerdasinovasidigital.com Thank you for watching, see you in the next episode.
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