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Tutorial: Lighting and Color — Description
Final part of the Dragon Tutorial. The other sections are Part I: Dragon Collage and Part II: Dragon Head .

Even though the collage part of photomanipulation is about 80% of the work, it's that final 20% that really makes the picture.

A lot of this section will rely on your instincts as an artist. Painters will find this part comes fairly naturally; in oils, acrylics, watercolor, etc., artists are trained to mix and match colors in all kinds of ways. If you don't have an art background, you may struggle to make things look "right." Don't give up. But maybe take some classes in traditional art to give you a feel for it, because mucking around with lighting and color is a lot like painting.

Thanks to *pricecw-stock for the snake stock!

(Oh, and for those who wonder, yes the background is different from the one in the earlier tutorials. That was just a placeholder background. This new background was made specifically for this dragon. Someday I'll do a tutorial on backgrounds, but they are boring... and you can get nice ones from friendly stock artists anyway. )