furitsu said 9 years ago 1/8/2003 6:16:28 PM EDT

To have the illusion of cyberflesh being prefabricated before being applied to the cyborg, I wanted to have some seams showing. Subtly, but visible nonetheless. To do this, I decided to use a layer style on a stroke created by the paths for the seams. After I created a new layer, in the "seam lines" layer set of course, I selected the seam paths. For the stroke I needed a size 2 hard brush. Then I chose "stroke path, tool: brush" twice, to thicken the stroke (image 20). The color used for this is not important, it will not be used.



While having my cursor over this new layer, I control-clicked on it to get a selection of the seam strokes. With this selection I copied a part of the original Catherine image into a new layer (control-c/control-v) and moved this layer into the seam lines layer set. Having the layer active, I selected Layer Style: bevel and emboss. With preview activated I tweaked and tweaked (image 21),



set the contour range to 70% (image 22),



until the seams were how I wanted them (image 23).