Here is a new Photoshop tutorial from PSD Magazine: Paper Girl by Benjamin Delacour . (Download the November 2010 issue of PSD Photoshop Magazine .)

Here is a tutorial made entirely in Photoshop and Illustrator CS4. I wanted to try to make something fresh and very colorful. To do this, I used images of origami. Some of the material was done in Illustrator and Photoshop but the majority comes from Istockphoto.

1 Base
Open a Photoshop document, 60 cm wide by 40 high and 300dpi. After importing your model (which has to be cleaned and cut ou from its source), place it in the center of the image. Cutting out is not a very pleasant job but it is very important. While cutting out the character and combining the different techniques of trimming, use the Pen tool inside a new Layer. It is best to avoid using the Lasso or Eraser tools! Using the Pen tool in a new Layer makes it easy to correct your selection and the result will be much more natural.

2 Background

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