Fig. 5 As you can see on the arm, the rendering results are not very good and enlarging the figure of course also blew up these mistakes. Therefore, it needs to be worked over. As the figure is cut into pieces anyway to give it a marionette”s appearance, I cut certain areas like arm and hands with the polygon lasso and insert them again which turns the single limbs into relocatable elements on separate layers. While cutting, I may strike out somewhat and I do not need to meticulously follow the contours because the newly inserted layer may be freed fr0m the background parts with one click of the magic wand (beside the lasso tool). The great advantage of setting the poser rendering tool to “monochrome background”: this regular background may be easily removed in Photoshop.
Fig. 6 With the clone stamp I add the shadows in the original layer now (and smoothen some polygon mistakes at the same time like e.g. at the throat, the indented shadows and the arms). The advantage of the copy or clone stamp is that you take up a pattern or a picture information to insert it at a chosen place in exactly the same size as determined before.The grade of transparency/opacity may also be adjusted. Later on I will use this tool to free the scanned artwork fr0m impurities. As you can see at the fingers have made some changes to the figure in the “liquifier”l The filter “liquify” is new to Photoshop 7 and was available as a plug-in by Kai”s Powertools before. With this filter, images may be distorted, swirled and even partially mirrored. It may be a very handy tool when it is used the right way (also for caricatures).
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