How Do you Do these 2 things, umm can someone help me please figure out how to do theses? Options

[amish-hammer]

okie could someone please tell me or help me how to figure out how she did this background?

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and could someone also help me figure out how they made the skin look so soft and warm looking? because im trying to learn how to edit manga scans better.

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if you know how to do any of these please message me or just like post it it'd be a big help.

thanks for reading!

Reason for edit: please thumb large images. thanks :) -nat

[manny-the-dino]

For the first one, what do you mean exactly? Like the sunburst or..?

[amish-hammer]

naa i was just curious if like it was just on different layers and different gradients? because i really like the way it looks and i wanna learn how to do that

[manny-the-dino]

Oh. Well yeah, they most likely used different layers & techniques. Probably brushes & gradients.

[amish-hammer]

do you think that would be possible to do on photoshop 7.0.1?

[manny-the-dino]

Yes, of course. Just add the brushes/do the effects & then add a new layer on top of all the other ones, containing gradient(s).

[amish-hammer]

do you know any other sites then DA that have brushes for 7.0.1?

and do you know how to do the second picture or no?

[manny-the-dino]

Yeah, you can look through our BBoR.

[superstitious]

You can try posting a link to brushes that you like in the imagepack thread and see if someone would make you an imagepack (that you could in turn, make into brushes). Here's a creating a brush tutorial.

As for the second image, this tutorial might be able to help you out.

[amish-hammer]

thanks alot everyone!

[xgrizzy]

Dunno if anyone said this but,
for the first image she cut selected the person then made a layout with the background effects. :D

the second one you make a new layer blur it a little and like set it to screen.
Hope that helps. ^^;