Chapter 5
Tracing Photographs
Creating striking illustrations in Photoshop is easy when you use photography as your starting point. You don’t really need any traditional drawing skills, you simply need to understand which tools are right for the task at hand, and how to use them to your advantage. All of the details and divisions of color necessary to create a stunning illustration exist in your photography, you just need to recognize the potential within the image and make use of it.
The technique of illustrating over photography revealed in this chapter does involve tracing, but as you define areas with paths, you can simplify, embellish ...
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