If you’re anything like me, some of the fondest memories you may have as a child are the times spent with building blocks. Those tiny locks of plastic or wood could be a fuselage on a jet airplane one day and a castle’s gateway the next – they were limitless. They allowed you to start from the ground up in creating anything your imagination allowed.

The process explained in this tutorial follows in the footsteps of the mighty building block, as it demonstrates how Photoshop lets you build complex images one piece at a time. While photo-montage techniques are common these days, the montage process we’ll outline takes a different course. Instead of blending images to form a more abstract piece, we’ll start out with a tight idea first and then loosen things up as we go.

To achieve the look of our robotic angel, it will be necessary to handle and organize a large volume of layers, which may turn some people away. If you’re looking for a more time-sensitive demonstration, we encourage you to simplify the line drawing or skip the rendering of some of her bodily segments. Make no mistake, this tutorial will take quite awhile to do. But the end results and skill learned are worth it.

Download Tutorial Files : Robo Angel Tutorial Files (2020)

Step 1

Begin with an A4-sized document with the resolution set to 300. Fill the background with a nice solid black. Layers can and do pile up fast, so this size is large enough to retain detail, but small enough to keep file size and CPU slowdown to a minimum. Also, set the Colour Mode to RGB for more flexibility when designing. Save this file as ‘Robo_Angel.psd.

Step 2

Open ‘orig_mech.tif’ from the source files you downloaded. Go to Edit>Select All, then copy and paste this image into your ‘robo_angel.psd’ document on its own layer. Name this layer ‘Line Work’ and place it above your Background layer. Set this layer’s Opacity to about 50% using the slider in the layers palette.

Step 3

Now we need to import a metal texture names creatively “texture.jpeg” that is included in the source file. Select and copy all, and paste it into the main document. Name the layer ‘Texture’ and place it directly underneath the ‘Line Work’ layer.

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