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The last two petals are the two I found the most
enjoyable to work on, since the shading is a little more
interesting. Load Petal 5, and select the larger part at the
bottom with your magic wand. Modify the selection...expand by
1, and add a new layer. Do not deselect.
Shade this part in the same way you've done the
other petals. Use your airbrush, and spray quite heavily at
the bottom of the selection and lighter higher up toward the
top. Lower the size of your airbrush to about 6, and spray
under the left hand side of the part that's folded outward on the
top, as shown below. Right in the middle of the curved out
part of the area you're working on, spray a fairly large dot of
white, to bring out the curve.
Do not deselect. Gaussian blur 5.
Use your smudge tool to bring out some of the darker color into the
light, as in the other petals, and smudge the shadow under the lip
of the upper part of the petal at the left end, as shown
below.
Step 9
Now select the part of the petal that's turned
back at the top of the one you just finished, expand the selection
by 1, do not deselect. Add a new layer, and shade as below.
Again, using your smudge brush, pull some of the
darker color into the lighter color, remembering to curve the lines
to follow the shape of the petal, as below.
Gaussian blur, but set it to a lower number
between 1-3, so as not to lose the definition of the fine smudged
lines. If it doesn't look right the first time, just undo and
try a different setting. You'll notice a small line between
this part of the petal and the middle part of the rose. We'll
deal with that later.
Step 10
Now we'll work on the largest petal. The
shading is done with one of the darker shades, and white.
Click inside the top part of the petal that's turned outward, and
expand the selection by 1. Keep selected, and add a new
layer. Shade as below.
Gaussian blur 5, then smudge tool set to size 1,
pull out some of the darker color into the white, as
below.
Gaussian blur set to one or two. Anything
higher will take out the fine lines you smudged. The top of
the petal should now look similar to the picture below.
Step 11
Select the lower, outside part of this petal
with your magic wand, and expand the selection by 1. Add
a new layer, and shade as below.
Gaussian blur by 5, and your petal should look
similar to the picture below.
Step 12
Now select the inside of the same petal, as
in the picture below, keep selected,
and add a new layer.
Spray the entire area with one of the darker
shades in your palette. Don't deselect. Gaussian
blur by 5. Now you can deselect.
Step 13
Your petals are all colored, and now's the time
to deal with the little 'cleanup' details. On the petal you
just finished, there's a line showing that was there as a guideline
for the top of the petal that turns out, as in the picture
below.
Go to the layer with the line drawing on it for
that petal, and using your retouch tool set to push, sizeto about
3...opacity and density to 100 and step to 1, start close to the
line and 'push' the lighter color over it. You should see the
line disappear.
Go to your layer palette, and make all but
the coloring layers and the line drawing layer for this petal
invisible. Go to layers/merge/merge visible, and merge
the layers.
Using your smudge brush (don't forget to reset
to the original settings you used, since the push tool uses the same
settings), smudge the darker color of the inside of the petal up
into the lighter part, as shown below.
Step 14
On the smaller petal with the turned top, there
is a similar line showing, shown below.
Go to the line drawing layer for
that petal, and remove the line the same way as
above.
Now go to the colored layer for the center of
the rose, and click inside the lighter color with the magic wand to
select it, as in the picture below. Since this was colored
with the airbrush, you will likely have to set your tolerance fairly
high. I set mine at 25, to make sure I got the entire area in
this selection.
Do not deselect. Add another layer and use
the airbrush to color the selection on the new layer.
Deselect. In your layer palette, drag the
new layer above the colored layer for the turned petal. Make
all layers invisible but the petal line drawing, the first coloring
layer, and the new layer you just created. Merge the three
layers. Now you can smudge the colors into each other to
create a smoother transition between them, as below.
Step 15
Using your paintbrush set to size 3, opacity and
density to about 30, color white, draw some defining lines on
the edges of the middle petals, as below.
Using your push brush set to about size
2...hardness 100...opacity 100...step 1...density 100, clear up any
messy edges, such as in the larger image above on the edge of the
petal to the right.
Go to layers...merge...merge all. Add some
leaves and your rose is done!
I hope this hasn't been too boring, and that it's
been of some help to you.
If you encounter any difficulties, please contact
me and I'll do my best to clarify things for you.
Thanks!
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