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Thank you SO much for that .PSD gradient tutorial file, reading about it just never seemed to click for me but having that file to drop into Photoshop and SEE it/mess with it really helped me. I got the best color matching results I've had so far with this Mercy edit using Killer Frost's body and part of her hair. I made a separate gradient for Mercy's hair color and I colored in the highlights with the curvature pen tool. I wanted to try and make a version of Mercy's hair falling back a bit with gravity in that position or maybe partially wet looking. Since Killer Frost's legs were up already and it's a Mercy exhibition scene I thought it would make more sense for them to be suspended with cuffs and chains. Plus sprite bashing her arms so they're also restrained under her.
Made some Blindfolded/without and spotlit/without variants. I'm sharing a gradient map of trying to make a chain that matches the metal ring hardware on Sunsetrider's drawn collars. Hope that helps someone wanting to make a leash scene or other BDSM stuff. I used the same gradient map to make that buckle too on her ankle cuff along with the curvature pen tool but I think it's pretty rough, I had to paint in there. I'm including the gradient I made for the chains as a .psd file and GRD in separate links below, the thumbnail above is just a preview--it's a smart object layer so if you resize the chain layer, the gradient layer in PS should match it. When trying to bend chains I got better results by first making the chains(smart layer) very large and THEN using the warp tool. Otherwise if the chains are normal sized and you warp them, the result is very blurry.
Here's the chain gradient in a .PSD file and GRD:
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(Catbox wouldn't take the GRD, was so small it thought there was no file)
Lovekraut the link for your .PSD gradient tutorial file expired so I hope you don't mind if I re-upload it here, seriously thank you again:
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Sorry for the wall of text. I wanted to thank you sooner when I started getting better results but I got sidetracked a few days plus I didn't have any edits to show for it either.