Oregonian wrote:
I looked at the PhotoShop tutorial, would you rather the lens looked like the one in the PS tutorial? The shading all around? Yours looks good but I think the lens itself could be improved.
I'm going to experiment with the lens and see what I come up with. Going to try feathering the selection. Also do you want to keep the blue color of the lens or go to white?
Here is what I did.
- I selected the glass area on the layer with the very long number.
Grew the selection by 1
Saved it as a path.
- I made a new transparent layer below that long-number layer and named it lensfeather. Select that layer if it isn't.
I feathered the selection 60, inverted the selection and filled it with blue.
Unselected.
Select > From Path
Invert the selection and Delete.
All was done on the lensfeather layer. Try different amounts of feathering to see what you like best. I also put a color swatch in the attached xcf file for the blue color (b2c5d4). Also, the reflection you made, you might want to lighten it a little and add it back into the image.