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Taking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop

In this tutorial we'll learn how to turn a good digital painting into a great digital painting using simple techniques you can use over and over again in Photoshop. Software required: Photoshop CS5.

What you'll learn

In this tutorial we'll learn how to turn a good digital painting into a great digital painting using simple techniques you can use over and over again in Photoshop. Throughout these lessons we will take a look at a variety of techniques to make any image into portfolio gold! We will take a decent digital painting and transform it into a more dynamic, story-packed image with little more than a few simple steps and some elbow grease. From this tutorial, you'll soon be able to apply the same essential tips to your own illustrations in no time at all. Software required: Photoshop CS5.

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