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Creating a fake blood effect

Creating a fake blood effect - Photoshop Tutorial

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Creating a fake blood effect

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Now, over the years, I've gotten quite a few requests to show how to create fake blood inside of Photoshop. If that's your cup of tea, then stick with me for the following movies. If it's not, then go ahead and skip ahead to the next chapter. I'm looking at the file called Vampire comp.psd, and I'm also looking at the final layer comp inside the Layer Comps panel, which is called Blood. Notice, if you're working along with me, you'll see over here in the Layers panel that the Blood effect comprises a total of three layers, two of which are called drips, and one is called lips. I'm going to go ahead and zoom in on this image here, and scroll down to the mouth. And you can see that the blood effect not only includes this blood that's oozing out of the guy's lips, and down onto his chin as well, but we also have a little bit of scabbing, as if the blood is congealing on his lips. Because after all, if this was a vampire, and he had bitten somebody, then he would naturally have at least a…

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