16 million color Pipes Drawing:

You see them on skins and everywhere else, and you say to yourself,"I wish I could draw those," and "I sure hope somebody tells how they did that someday." Well...ok, here you go:

dempipes1.gif (3400 bytes)Let's say I wanted to add some of them pipes to this skin in that big black area near the bottom.

dempipes2.gif (1552 bytes)No problem, just set that retouch tool to lighten, opacity:30, size:5, and they draw a curve across the area you want it. You will have to go back and forth a few times to get the lighting that you want on it.

dempipes3.gif (1614 bytes)But you wanted segmented pipes, ok, just do the same thing, then change your size to 1, and darken a line across the pipe, then lighten across the top of that line to add a light effect.

dempipes4.gif (1765 bytes)Want them bigger? ok, just increase the original size (5) of your retouch to 10 (or anything really).

dempipes5.gif (1835 bytes)It works all the same for smaller pipes as well. :)