this is Kristy Peterson with Christie Petersen photography.com and I have an Etsy shop and its name is very photography and I sell digital backgrounds and overlays and Photoshop templates and costumes for this very photographer and this is a tutorial on my tips and tricks on how to do digital fairy wings I'm going to make a couple of these videos so that they're not too long so first I am going to show you where I get them go to obsidian Don calm and brushes and fantasy and this is the fantasy page for brushes I'm already here and there's the fairy wing brushes right here can be just plain wing brushes right here commercial licenses for these are $3 so it's totally affordable and easy to do you can also Google Photoshop fairy wing brushes and make sure you can use whatever you find commercially um and you can find some wing brushes that way so this is a I'm going to show you how I do this um create a new layer you always have to have your wings on a layer by themselves and each wing right in the left thing needs to be a layer of its own okay so create a layer and then choose some wings and I will just be is one and sample a color from the dress matter if you sample the color choose the wing first and then go lighter after you find your sample color then grab your rain brush again your paintbrush has your wings selected and just click it funds to paint it on and then I'm going to add a mask and ctrl J to duplicate it and if you want to make it darker that's how you duplicate it and then you would just do ctrl e to merge it down the darkness of the swing that was fine with so unduplicated it to make the other wing I'm going to grab the move tool and drag it to the other side and then to make them look realistic the perspective on you grab to edit transform distort and grab this little box here and you can move it any way you feel that you need to make it look good I always do it just a little bit up from a little bit back and then edit transform distort and this one the shoulders a little bit back further than the other one so I'm going to exist in just a little bit back more and accept it and then you grab the paintbrush again change the brush to soft circle and select the mask left bracket key to make it smaller and one though I'm only left I always do my right and left and then I like to label the wing okay so I'm on the left wing and then you take it off places where you don't want it to be and you do this into the other side sometimes when I have a seat redress like this for a cost of our part of the dress I will take my brush and more Viet pasady down and just take a part of it actually that's too strong I want to go the other way okay and that's it for that one pretty simple okay this next one I'm going to show you I'm going to have the wings overlapping a little bit and share a little trick that I do to make them look realistic and I'm going to grab a color of the dress go lighter okay grab my wing brush here to created a new layer please stamp that on there oops mmm books on a path to be is still down can't bring it back up there we go okay sometimes I like my wings just a little bit darker but not that dark and then I take this down to 50% and then I do ctrl e and that merges it together but this picture doesn't need it okay then I'm going to ctrl J to duplicate it and this bottom one I'm going to make the other wing for the other side edit transform and store it and a little bit there okay so I'm going to put our wing hmm near wing you want your wings the near of wing to be on top in the layer order I'm going to add the mask okay and then you do as you as I did with the first one you just mask it off okay far wing that was selected okay and we need to turn off the near wing just to make sure I get everything usually I would go in and get this pretty close and like fill in right in there oops heck flipping the light on to white on top so I can fix Mexican things the black back on top okay then I'm going to do the near wing and take it off here but I'm going to leave it right there because her hair would be in between Gus the wing okay now you can see here where there's some wing the back wing shines great shows through here in here I want to fade it a little bit so that it looks like it is the back wing and then so I'm going to lower my brush I'm going to select the far wing pallet pallette mask and I'm just going to paint over where it shows through there and it just fades it just a little bit to make it look like it is the back wing this um this picture here shows that I did the same thing I like to fade that equity by using the opacity okay that's it for this tutorial the next tutorial I'm going to show how to do wings laying down thanks for watching