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[meccajos]

Can someone tell me how I can illustrate a flash from a camera?

Also, do you know of any tutorials out there that show how to illustrate hands?

THANKS!

[CkretAjint]

Can someone tell me how I can illustrate a flash from a camera?

Like a lense fair? *shudders* Click and hold down on the rectangle/circle tool and select 'lens flare' *shudders again*


Also, do you know of any tutorials out there that show how to illustrate hands?

How detailed? stylized people? photographic looking people?

[meccajos]

THANKS...that is exactly what I needed. 2nd year graphic design student and I didn't even know that tool was there...duh.

As for the hands, I just need to do a simple illustration-not much detail at all.

[chalsema]

Take a picture of some hands and trace over them in Illy?

[Virgo Nightingale]

I don't think you'll find a tutorial for illustrating hands per se... Your best bet is to take a picture of a hand the way you want it to be positioned and trace the image with the pen tool in Illy.

[meccajos]

Are there any good places to look at other's illustrations of peopel/hands?

Regarding that lens flare tool, how can I get the beams from it to be more visible/less transparent looking?

[D-Frag]

people hand images: www.sxc.hu do a search for hands, plenty in there to help you out with an illustration.

the lens flare *shudder* just put it on its own layer, and knock the opacity down, that should make it less apparant *shudder*

[chalsema]

http://images.google.com/images?q=hand+illustrations&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-39,GGGL:en&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi
looks like there's a bunch on google.

[meccajos]

Thanks,

When I used the lens flare tool on my illustration, the beams coming from it are not prominent enough. How can I get them to stand out MORE? I used white as the color fill.

[D-Frag]

just duplicate the layer and put it over the original, mess with the layer styles (ie: multiply, color burn etc...) or you could do some level adjustments as well.

[meccajos]

Great...thanks so much!