Jeans tutorial

This tutorial is for Photoshop 5.0, but works in other versions of Photoshop as well.

1. Pick the dark colour and draw the outline of the jeans on a new layer. Don't follow the exact outline of the base because that will look odd. A good idea is to draw a few wrinkles around the knees, and around the ankles and hips (depending on the base).	2. Create another layer and fill the jeans with the middle colour.	3. Make yet another new layer and fill that with the middle colour. Make sure it covers the whole jeans area and a little more. This is because if you smudge outside a colourfilled area the edges and colours get messed up.
4. Pick the dark colour and start draw the dark shading, ie the shadow, using the paintbrush tool. Jeans are sort of stiff so don't over do the wrinkles and folds.	5. Pick the lightest colour to draw the light shading, ie the highlighting, using the paintbrush tool. For a more jeans-y effect I've chosen a yellowish colour, but a light blue colour works just as fine.	6. On to the smudging! I use the second smallest (size: 3px). It's easier to use a smaller for detailed shading such as wrinkles and creases. Blend the colours well, but it's a good idea to leave some parts less smudged where the wrinkles are more marked. Like the wrinkles around the hips and knees.
7. When you're done smudging you want to remove the areas around the jeans. Easies way to do so is to mark the filled jeans layer (see step 2) with the wand tool, invert, go back to the smudged layer, and delete.	8. Et voilà.	9. For a more jeans-y look I've added a waistband line, pockets and zipper. Do this on a new layer on top of all the jeans layers.
10. Since this base is slightly turned the side hem on the legs would be visible. Draw them on a new layer. Take the darkest colour and draw a line along the leg. Follow the shape and rounds where the wrinkles bulge. Do this on both the outside of the first leg and the inside of the other leg. Then draw the hems at the bottom of the jeans. Make sure you don't draw outside the jeans because that will mess up when you save the doll as a transparent gif.	11. For a rough touch I've added a grain pattern on the jeans. Easiest way to do so is to merge all the jeans layer. (I recommend you save a copy of all the layers in case you change your mind and want to go back to the ungrained jeans.) Then you go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. The settings I chose are Amount: 4, Distribution: Uniform, and check the Monochormatic box if it's unchecked.	12. For a "worn and torn" look I've added a hole and two scratches. Pick a light blue colour, almost white. Draw the scratches and the desired shape of the hole. A thread or two if you like as well.
13. For the hole to look like a hole there needs to be some skin visible through it. Make a new layer and draw the skin with the darkest base colour. Leave just a thin outline of the light hole-area visible. Use the burn tool to burn the sides of the skin area to make a shadow of the jeans, so that the skin appears to be under the jeans rather than on top.	14. Should you feel for a darker pair of jeans instead, there is a very easy way to change that. Merge all the jeans layers, including the hole, BUT excluding the little piece of skin. Like I mentioned above keep the layers saved and add the merged jeans as a new layer. Duplicate the merged layer (so that you have two) and change the top layer of the two from Normal to Multiply. This will make the jeans darker.	15. If you want lighter jeans instead. Just merge the jeans and play around with the Brightness/Contrast settings and Hue/Saturation. The settings I used for the above colour are Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation > Saturation: -40 and then Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast >Brightness: +20.