As explained in the previous post, the kebaya is the national dress of Indonesian women. As a country that consists of many ethnic groups, the types and patterns of kebaya also have many variations according to the area of origin of the kebaya.
Kebaya Encim is a traditional Betawi dress that is quite old. Traditional clothes that are often used by Betawi people is very identical to the Betawi culture. Kebaya encim has several characteristics, starting from the details of the embroidery, the side folds of the shirt that are in the middle, weaving materials, and the length below the hips.
But in this post, I will not discuss the details about the substance of the encim kebaya, I only present a digital painting of the encim kebaya that I have made using watercolor effect techniques using photoshop.
In several previous posts, I have briefly presented how to make digital paintings using watercolor techniques. The methods and stages that I use in making a digital painting of a kebaya encim are summarized as follows:
- The image size I'm using is 1380 px X 1380 px, with an image resolution of 300 ppi
- Create the background with a watercolor effect using watercolor brush tools according to your imagination
- The painting is a combination of 2 different images, i.e. the model and wildflowers. The original image of the model can be found here, and the original image of wildflowers can be found here
- Duplicate the background image that has been made, change the blend mode to soft light (opacity 71%);
- Place the image of the model on top of the background layer, use the layer mask technique to display the model's image without a background
- Place the image of the wildflowers on the left side, then duplicate it and move to the right side
- For each image (background, the model, and wildflowers use the filter - noise - greyCstoration, after that use the filter - artistic - watercolor
- Duplicate the model image that has been made, change the blend mode to soft light (opacity 73%);
- Use the watercolor effect brush tools for layer masks on the model.
- For the wildflowers (left and right side), each uses the blend mode to linear burn (opacity 91%)
- Then sharpen each image using the filter - sharpen - smart sharpen
- To create a painting effect on canvas using filter - filter gallery - texture- texturizer (canvas)
- Color effects using vibrance (with vibrance 0, and saturation -14)
- Lighting effects using brightness and contrast (with contrast -37, and brightness 10)
- As the final of the steps mentioned above, give the finishing touches according to your imagination and creativity
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