Behold!

So I haven't touched Photoshop since 2005 (We learnt the basics in school, and I promptly forgot them when the course was over), except for the occasional minor touching up of photos in it (red-eye reduction, erasing pimples etc xD). Then when I got my paid roleplay account for Gabriel I started making more icons. I wanted more of Gabriel with his wings out and I didn't want to keep asking eidolon_bird to do everything for me because I'd feel bad, so I thought I'd have a stab at it.

I went searching for wing pictures and then opened Photoshop and poked about. Editing the background for Gabriel's layer away was a right pain because the lighting made his hair and clothes blend in, so using the Magic Wand tool or the other one would make his arm or his hair and half his face disappear. Then I noticed the Magnetic Lasso tool (is that the right name?) and voila. Some time with that, the magic wand and the paintbrush fixed things.

His wings here are smaller than what I envision them to be - I used bird wings and not angel wings, after all. Couldn't find good ones. This was practice. But I can't deny I'm pretty pleased at how it turned out. :D



(The model I use as Gabriel is a Brazilian male model named Santiago Figueras.)