How to create Painted Sepia Lion

• This image was created using an original zoo lion photograph that I took
• Scan the original photograph into the computer
• The original image was on a 35 mm slide so I had it scanned onto a Kodak Photo CD Disk
• I opened it in Corel Photo Paint and saved it as a Tif in CIE Lab format as lionorg.tif.
• Open the lionorg.tif in Adobe Photoshop
• Crop the lion to its final desired dimensions
• Sharpen the image
• Convert to a greyscale image
• Save image as liongrey.tif
• Adjust the image brightness so you have NO TRUE blacks or whites
• This is done so that you can outline in true black
• Draw outline of lion
• Click on the default colors incon in the colors section of the toolbox to get a true black foreground
• Using only the pencil tool at a thickness of 1 or 2 pixels outline all of the main areas of the lion
• Be sure to outline all of the shadow and highlight areas and also details around the eyes, tongue, whiskers etc.
• This does not have to be perfect. You are going to paint over it anyway.
• Save image as lion_outline.tif
• Converting image to an outline template
• Select the biggest circle available for the pencil tool
• Stamp down circle on an unimportant part of the image that is not part of the drawing
• Choose the following settings of the magic wand tool
• Tolerance: 1
• Anti-Aliasing: Off
• Select the big circle with the magic wand tool
• Select - Similiar
• Select - Inverse
• Make sure the background color of the toolbox is a true white
• Press the delete key on the keyboard. This deletes to the background color.
• Deselect all.
• Save image as lion_outline.tif
• Painting the Lion
• I used a combination of Adobe Photoshop and Fractal Design Painter to do the actual 'painting'
• Place an image of the original lion in greyscale next to the lion you are painting as a reference or refer to an actual printed photograph
• The idea is to use your drawing and painting tools to recreate the lion as a 'painting'
• Be sure to save often
• When finished the lion was taken into Adobe Photoshop and converted to a old fashioned sepia image
• I first tried to convert the lion to a duotone, but did not like the results
• The chosen method was by converting the image to RBG mode and then 'colorizing' it