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I get lots of questions about photomanipulation. Mostly, "how do you do that?" Well, now my most secret techniques will be yours! In painstaking detail.

The truth is, photomanipulating a dragon takes me about 30 hrs., and it's fairly complicated and messy. For this tutorial to be useful to you, some basic familiarity with Photoshop is a MUST.

This is the head detail. The main dragon tutorial can be found here: [link]

Once you have a dragon, the tutorial on lighting and coloring can be found here: [link]
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~Forestdragon May 26, 2012
Hahah, This looks pretty funny. Great work using al those part from different animals
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*LightConcorde Feb 27, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Nice! Whole tutorial helped me a lot, especially I've learned how to make the shading right.

About the whiskers, I've found another way to make them grainy, there is no need to cut/copy pixels from the background.
After you draw and shade the whiskers, lock empty/transparent pixels (that square icon in layers window), then go to Filter -> Noise -> Add noise and play with noise strength to make the whiskers fit the image. :) I find it easier and faster to do, and the final effect is rather satisfying.
Of course it works with other parts, such as fur drawn from the start.
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*unmerwe Feb 21, 2011
wonderful info!
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~charissa1066 Jul 13, 2010
Thank you for this great tutorial series. :hug:
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~downtoearthstudios Jun 10, 2010
I think its valuable t o add that once finished one can stand back and Re-draw tor Draw the final result to give it the traditional feel and unify the end result, but of course it all depends on the desired end result, i mean Me i would have to translate this into a tattoo-able image at the end no matter what.... some times thats just done by tattooing it but its not for beginners cuz if you dont simplify it first one tends to try to throw in tooooo much detail and that just ruins it...

ok , im done... cheers -b
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~anuargrafik Apr 15, 2010
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW


favou.
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~kitticaitlin1 Nov 22, 2009
Thank you for this ^.~ But, do you HAVE to use photoshop, or is GIMP and option? I don't have photoshop, because I can't seem to find it, and all I have is GIMP.
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~Ahyicodae Nov 23, 2009
Well, I haven't used GIMP, so I don't really know! :) The tutorial references various photoshop tools, but if GIMP has the same or similar tools, there's no reason you can't use it instead.
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~kitticaitlin1 Nov 23, 2009
Alright, thanks! GIMP does have the same tools, but I've always preferred photoshop. It is nicer.
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~Engelchen19 Apr 5, 2009
wow omg o.o
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