Pants 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 pants 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 and material of the pants.	2. Create another layer and fill the pants with the middle colour.	3. Make yet another new layer and fill that with the middle colour. Make sure it covers the whole pants 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. The shadowing doesn't have to look perfect, you'll fix that one you start smudging. Since this base has its weight on one foot more than the other I've added a few more wrinkles on the supporting leg.	5. Pick the lightest colour to draw the light shading, ie the highlighting, using the paintbrush tool. The unsupporting leg is slighly bended so I've added some extra highlights on the thigh and knee, and less on the supporting leg.	6. Now comes the fun part, 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 pants. Easies way to do so is to mark the filled pants layer (see step 2) with the wand tool, invert, go back to the smudged layer, and delete.	8. Et voilà.	9. For a more pants-y look I've added a waistband line, pockets and zipper.