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How to create a rainbow girl illustration

How to create a rainbow girl illustration.

On a new uncolored background with the dimensions 500×400, 72dpi create the next picture using the toolPhotoshop Pen Tool :

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

For your convenience are indicated the color code. Keep using the same instrument, we’ll create the next picture:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

…and more:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

In this way we got a colored picture:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

We’ll add some extra-effects using instruments Blending options, the function Drop Shadow.

…and we got:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

We’ll black out the right picture’s edge choosing the instrument Gradient tool Photoshop Gradient Tool and we got the next picture:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

After that we’ll take the girl’s picture and cut out the background using the instrument Photoshop Erase Tool :

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

Then, on the same file with the right button of the mouse choose Blending options. Choose Colour Overlay and set out the black colour:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

Now the girl became a silhouette:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

We have to add only the girl’s shadow. We’ll copy the girl’s background and the copy we’ll transform using the function Free Transform provoked by the right mouse’s button. Move the shadow on a short distance and on the shadow’s background we’ll change the opacity like this:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

Put through everything together and we got the next picture:

create a rainbow girl illustration in photoshop cs

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