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4. Mouth

New layer for the mouth.
I start by drawing the rough shape of the mouth. (The mesh might tweek it, so it can be a good idea to check it out in SimShow at this point, just to see how big it is.) Then I draw a darker line to part the lips.

And because I'm lazy ;) I then use Effects -> blur -> gaussian blur... on it. This will smoothen it nicely.

Then I grab the Retouch tool. I use both the darken RGB and the lighten RGB for this, both in a very low opacity.

First I use the darken tool; a bit around the mouth, more at the sides and at the bottom, and also quite a lot between the lips.
Then I use the lighten tool in the midle of each lip; I put the most highlight on the lower lip.

Nice. Now she looks like this:

And like this in SimShow:

(Note: Remember to save your file as .psp before saving as .bmp. Otherwise you won't be able to go back and edit or add to each layer. The .bmp file format is only used for viewing your head, not for the actual making of it as it doesn't support layers.)

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