Dingbat Fairies Come to life

using Dodge and Burn

• You will need to download  the Woodcut Fairies Font here.
• background image here

1. Open your font zip file using a zip compression program such as WinZip. Extract the file to your Font folder. If you are in win 9X you will need to use the font installer from your fonts folder. In win2k and XP you simply place the extracted file in the fonts folder.

2. Open Photoshop.  Create a New Canvas by clicking File=> new. Set the canvas to

• width = 600
• height = 600
• mode = RGB
• resolution: 72
• background = white

3. Select your type tool and set it to the SL Woodcut Faeries, 720 pt smooth black and type the letter "e"

4. Control click the type layer and then insert a layer called body. Select your lasso tool and set it to subtract from selection. Encircle the selections that are around the wings and hair. This will leave just the body.
 

5. Set your foreground color to hex value #DEAB7F. Click edit=> Fill and select

• foreground color
• opacity = 100%
• normal mode
• uncheck preserve transparency

5. Control Click the Text layer and Insert a new layer called Hair.
Use the same technique with the lasso tool set to intersect to encircle the outer most edges of the hair. Set your foreground color to hex #A01900 Click edit=> fill and fill with a reddish brown on the hair layer.

6. Control click the Text layer. Hold your control key down with your alt key and Click on the body layer to subtract the body from the selection. Use the lasso tool set to subtract from selection at the top where the hair line is. Insert a layer called wings. Hit your D key and fill with Black.

7. Arrange your layers so that the Hair is on top, the body is next and the wings below.

8. Turn off the text layer. Highlight the body layer. Click Select=> Deselect. Set the foreground color to hex Value #EABD9D. 
Use the paint bucket to fill the middle area with skin tone.

9. Highlight the hair layer. Set the foreground color to #BB6D4A and fill the center of the hair area,

10. Highlight the body layer. We will now move to the Dodge and burn section of this tutorial. Use the Map on the right and below and apply the correct dodge or burn listed by letter

1. Burn: 27 soft brush, shadows, 22% exposure.
2. Burn: 17 soft brush shadows 22 % exposure.
3. Dodge 27 soft brush Midtones 50% exposure
4. Zoom in on the breasts. Use the dodge tool set at 13 soft brush, highlight and 11 % exposure to highlight the tops of each breasts.
5. Use the burn tool set to a 5 pixel soft brush midtones 11% exposure.

Use the Burn tool set to a 5 pixel soft brush midtones 11 %exposure Use the dodge tool set to 5 pixel highlight 11% exposure.   11. Control click the body layer to select it. Click Filter=> blur => Gausian Blur. Set gausian blur to 1.5 pixels. Repeat gausian blur at 1.0 pixels. You may at this point want to add a layer to color in eyes and mouth, fingernails.

13. Select the burn tool. Set the burn to a 39 pixel spatter brush with shadows and 11% exposure. Burn a few wavy streaks down the locks of hair.

14. Use the dodge tool set to 39 pixel spatter brush highlight 9% exposure to hightlight strands of hair. Strands should go the length of the hair and have a little wave.

15. Click back on the wings layer. Duplicate this layer and turn the original wings layer eye off. Make sure all is deselected. Add a layer mask on the wings layer. Use a hard black brush to paint on the mask to hide the dotted lines within the wing and the back wing above. Right click the lasyer mask and apply the mask. Use the magic wand set to 32 tolerence and contiguous to select the inside of the foreground wing. (if this selects your entire or close to entire canvas you may have to turn off the body and hair layers and connect the bas of the wings with a black solid line)

16. Select your gradient tool and set it to the gradient default, Spectrum, radial gradient at 17% opacity. Draw a radial gradient starting at the hair and ending at the wing tip.

17. Click Filter=> Pixilate => crystallize. Set Crystallize to 50 pixels. Duplicate this layer.

18. Click Filter=> Blur=> Smart Blur. Set the Blur to

• radius = 10
• threshold = 25
• Quality = high
• Mode = edge only.

19. Click Image=> adjustments=> invert. then set this layer to Multipy. Click Layer=> Merge down. Call this "layer near wing".

20 Duplicate this layer and call the layer "Far wing". Move this layer under the Near wing layer. While the Far Wing layer is highlighted, Click edit => transform=> distort.

Set the

• height = 95%.
• width = 95%.
• Angle of rotation = -35.6
• skew to -4.3

21. Add the following blending options to each of these layers.

• Hair
  • Drop shadow: default settings
• Body
  • Drop shadow: default settings
• Near wing
  • Drop shadow
    change the following: opacity = 30, distance 5, spread 2, size = 35
  • Outer glow: default settings
  • Inner glow
    Change the opacity to 50%
  • Bevel and emboss: default settings
• Far wing
  • Drop shadow
    change the following: opacity = 30, distance 5, spread 2, size = 35
  • Inner Glow
    Change the opacity to 50%
  • Bevel and emboss: default settings

22. Link the four layers of the fairy, body, hair, near wing and far wing. The click the right hand arrow on the layers palette and create a new layer set from linked. Name the set Fairy.

23. Open your Trumpet Flower image. Place the fairy image so that both canvasses are visible. Grab the fairy layer set from the fairy image layer panel and drag it onto the canvas of you trumpet flower. With the layer set as your active layer, move into a good position for this flower. Reduce your canvas to a size you want  by selecting image=> image size. Set your size with constrain proportions on. Save your final image as a jpg.