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When painting along the outline, continually change the angle of the brush head
by altering the Angle setting in the Brush panel. Select the Flip X or Flip Y check-
box to flip the brush head horizontally or vertically, respectively ( Figure 1.43 ) .
Figure 1.43
Faking Cutouts: Part 2
Most of the time brushes do a great job with cutouts. But one technique doesn't necessarily
work for every picture or situation. In this example the challenge was to select the fine hair
of the lion's mane from the background and make it look believable.
So here's a great technique I learned from friend, and insanely gifted artist and animator,
Aaron Blaise. First we need to create a brush:
1. Go to File > New, and create a document that's 2000 pixels square at 240ppi ( Fig-
ure 1.44 ) .
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