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Highlights and Shadows with Equal Weight
In paitning there is an old trick to make gradients.
In general you do not use white to make a light red, because you have pink, that looks like contaminated with white. Instead you use a bit of ...
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How to apply Graphic Style correctly in Illustrator?
I did some tests to see if I could find out what you were talking about...
I figured it out. What you need to do is this...
Go into the flyout menu of the Graphic Styles Panel
Make sure that '...
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Where should I put the shadows and highlights on these antlers?
In case you are not so experienced with 3D techniques, lights, or shadows you could also play with inbuilt 3D effects such as extrusion and bevel effects (Effect > 3D > Extrude & Bevel).
This ...
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How to blend an image onto a wall that is partially lit by the sun?
If layer blending modes aren't doing it for you, or you can't take a new photo, then one possibility is to apply an Exposure Adjustment layer, clip it to the text layer, adjust the exposure to make it ...
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extract highlight / shade from image
Here's a method without the need to "extract" anything, just using layers.
Original layer on bottom
New flag layer clipped to layer 1
Copy of the original layer - Blending mode set to ...
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Highlights and Shadows with Equal Weight
Colour models are fine and all. They can do lots of good work and can make colour selection processes a lot easier.
They are not, however, infallible. They are a means, not the end.
My advice would ...
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What is the element being used here?
I found the website you are referring to and used the inspector to select a header which has the yellow highlight:
It seems to be just a background color.
I don't see anything "glassy" about this.
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Where should I put the shadows and highlights on these antlers?
Use photo references. There is no reason not to make something up and then amend it with direct observations from nature. You do not have to copy explicitly. If you have a set of novelty reindeer ...
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How to add highlights on a product photo?
This kind of thing is tricky, because there are no district shapes in the image for filters and selections to get hold of, so if you don't already have separate elements for the shapes and details in ...
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How do I acheive this monochrom type of lighting in photoshop?
This is more basic experimentation than anything....
It's possible to start with a photo and remove color (desaturate) and boost contrast (levels) then use a number of different filters to achieve the ...
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How to draw and manage complex shapes separately from their different shadow types in vector graphics?
In 2D drawings all textures which have some thickness must be redrawn for different watching directions and light conditions. Only flat textures and single colors can be adapted easily - I mean to ...
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Applying highlighting formating to text in Adobe Illustrator
You can't apply highlighting like that to a selection of text, but you can add it to an entire line of point text using an appearance effect on a second fill.
Open the Appearance panel (Window → ...
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How to lighten color without ruining texture and line in photoshop?
Yes you can achieve that with blending modes.
I'll show you a quick example by adding some extra lit areas around the window...
First, on a new layer, I block in some color in the areas I want lit. I ...
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How exactly do blend modes work?
I think your misreading the sources, I can not find a singe mention of luminance in the Wikipedia article.
Multiply does not use luminance for anything it does just what the tin says it multiplies ...
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How to paint this bottle glossy?
I will cheat and give you some links for you to study.
Inkscape: realistic lighting and shading
How can I make a shape look like it is made of glass?
Prototype Visualization: How can I learn to ...
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In Illustrator, how can you create highlights using blending modes?
I typically create highlights without using any blending modes. I maybe old-school but I do not like using blending modes within Illustrator. The only blending mode I'll use on occasion is Multiply ...
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Importing Acrobat file into Indesign and retaining comment highlights and text
I can think of 2 options
1) Open the PDF in Acrobat. Choose Preflight and search "flatten". Choose "Flatten annotations and form fields" and click "Analyze and fix". You will be asked to save a new ...
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extract highlight / shade from image
I would create my own as alluded to by Kyle...(However, I don't think using Bevel & Emboss is going to get you there.)
What follows is just my guessing to attempt to create the same general ...
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How do I make to make picture solarized like example
I'd use a Curves adjustment to create a solarization effect.
Then you could use a Hue and Saturation adjustment to increase the saturation and alter the colours as required.
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How to draw strokes under shape outlines on the same layer?
Illustrator treats a filled and outlined object as a single entity.
So, if your main circle object with yellow fill and black outline is a single object, then there is absolutely no way to insert ...
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extract highlight / shade from image
You have an image- I assume it is not a .psd file...
I think you are better off to reproduce this in Photoshop than trying to extract from some (most likely) flattened file.
Create a rounded square ...
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Highlighed areas on scanned images
Maybe worth to try this approach:
1) Duplicate the image layer, invert colors on duplicate
2) Use the blend mode "Divide" (in my dropdown there are two of it, i mean the last one) This way, the fog ...
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Black highlights and shadows?
A well-lit irregularly-shaped high-gloss finish black object will exhibit white highlights where the luminary is reflected toward the viewer.
A well-lit irregularly-shaped semi-gloss finish black ...
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Black highlights and shadows?
I don't really understand the question to be honest. The black would need to break your formula to maintain a viable visual appearance. Using lighter shades to indicate where shadows fall in other ...
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