Hey guys! I'd like some help with this. I'm studying NIANQAQ and I like what they did with this shirt, but i'm stumped on how they produced this orange glow where the green arrows are. Any Ideas?part of me feels like a normal layer was used because if you look at the orange arrow, I believe some of that same color can be seen there at the bottom of the sleeve in the white area. But i can't say for certain.Would love some help on this, thanks!
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>>7989092i have no idea but you could mybe automate that effect by applying a tonal gradient that makes the mid tones orange colored.
>>7989092i dont see orange but i see blue in the shadows so maybe you are really sensitive to that?
>>7989092Just use a normal layer with a soft airbrush and a bright saturated orange and brush lightly around the edges , erasing or lowering opacity on the layer to taste and merge. Simple
>>7989092Not a perfect reconstruction, but here's a breakdown.What you're missing is experience with blend modes on layers. The Add Glow blend mode makes things ..."glow". To get this effect, you have to select a color, usually dark but saturated, and paint a shape with it onto an add glow layer, then erase softly enough to not remove all of the shape, but lower the opacity of the edges. The saturation will make the area underneath (the flat color in this case) glow in this way. The subtlety of it comes with the brush work and the color choice. Obviously the brighter the color placed on the add glow, the closer to white it will be (See the Bright annotation in picrel), but if you darken the color enough, it wont come out a searing white, but the saturated hue will come through instead (See the Medium annotation in picrel). But lowering opacity by the layer settings or by soft erasing areas also has this effect.Its hard to explain, just play with it. Use the colors I gave in picrel to start.
