![]() When I’m happy with that, I switch the colours round (x on the keyboard for speed), reduce the brush size and increase the opacity to about 60%. The last step is to really sell the shape of the tree.Then I work in scattered highlights that give the impression of leaves. Turn off the colour jitter and use the same bright yellow (almost white) with a low opacity to highlight the top of the tree. Switch colours to your shadow hue (dark blue) and build up the tree shadows. ![]() ![]() Try to follow any contours of the line drawing. Trees aren’t just great masses of leaves – they clump and bunch and have shapes inside the groups of leaves. When you’re happy with this, add a multiply layer underneath the other layers and use a low opacity brush with your shadow he and lay in a cast shadow to bring the tree out of the background. That’s it! It’s pretty quick, even for lots of trees. ![]() ![]() If you’re doing a lot of trees, make sure you change colours a little for each one, and give them a wide range of sizes to avoid them looking like cookie cutter copies. If you’d like to use this tree, the psd file is here and you can also download the png with and without cast shadows. The pngs are CC-BY-NC-SA – so feel free to use these for any non-commercial project. ![]()
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