Another mistake that beginners would make is to go in details and get caught up in them.
And why not? Details are so much fun.
The problem is, you could spend hours and hours on the details,
but if the painting as a whole doesn't work, all those details are for nothing.
So instead of getting caught up in details,
a better way would be to actually start from far away on our painting
and start building the shapes and the composition of it.
There's actually a good trick to do this in Photoshop. Let's have a look.
Here's another trick for you. This trick is gonna help us to go and
start our painting the right way--so not start with small details,
but through actual rendering the big parts of it.
First of all, open this image.
I'm gonna give you a link below the video so you can download it.
Once it's open in Photoshop, what we're gonna do is change this one to black-and-white,
simply because taking out the color is going to be easier for us to render the values.
To do so, go to Image, Mode, Grayscale. Click Discard.
And now we have the image in black-and-white.
From here, we want another canvas that is exactly the same size as this one, and I got a little trick for this.
First of all, you need to have your History window open, so go to Window, and then click History.
And once it's done, you should have this panel here, and you just have to click on this icon.
It will open a new canvas which is the exact same size as this one.
From here we wanna fill this one with 50% grey. Just click on the color picker,
select 50% grey, and do ALT+DELETE to fill it up.
And from here, we're gonna zoom out a little bit on both of them so we start from far away,
so we don't paint any details, but the big shapes.
So let's start painting now.
So first of all let's create a new layer on which we will paint.
And for this exercise I'm gonna use the soft round brush
To do this, we can simply pick the color on the canvas to the left,
and try to paint the value on it.
Now in the beginning, it might be really really hard for you to do this by yourself.
But with time, you'll get much better at it.
This exercise took me about 15 minutes, but I'm gonna fast forward a little bit.
So you simply wanna keep making the colors and paint, and put all the values that you need in the right places.
Now when you have a basic layer of values that you put in,
at some point, what you want is to zoom in a little bit more, to see a little bit more detail.
So get a little bit closer to your image. You don't wanna go too close--just a little bit more.
About that much.
Call the same size on the other side, and just keep on painting.
Paint the value that you see on the left, on the right canvas.
So once again, once you realize that you got the details that you needed from this size,
I'm gonna zoom again a little bit more.
This time, I'm gonna zoom in for the final image
And simply continue to paint the values that I'm seeing on the left to the right canvas.
And I'll do that until I find that the image is perfect to my eye.