Back to Middle-earth Month

I go seat of the pants regularly when it comes to Photoshop, so that's hardly something I can criticize in any way (nor is it something that should be criticized, imho - it's good for learning more functions of the program). Replicating it, though... augh, yes. This is why I always save a .psd file of my photomanips, so I can go back and check what I did if I want to replicate it, but even then sometimes the images make all the difference in how the effects look. And if you're painting entirely now (that's so neat!) I guess it'd be easiest to just paint the light effects the way you want them outright, rather than go for manipulation over your painting.

And if you have a pea brain, that's a scarily huge pea in my book!