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blix-it — Manga Toning Tutorial
Published: 2007-08-08 08:56:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 51975; Favourites: 1031; Downloads: 1695
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This is the first tutorial I've ever written!
If there are questions or confusions, do comment and say. I'll help the best I can. Enjoy!
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Question Question , must we change the bitmap back into Grey tone?
or we dont need to that?
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Depends on your line art I think! If your line art is also bitmap, then you don't need to change it back.
My lines frequently are pencil, so I stick with grayscale.
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I'm thinking of changing to PNG type image
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Awesome tutorial!
THANKYOUU SO MUCH <3
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how does this work for photoshop elements 9, i can't find the halftone screen thingy, please help
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Sorry I don't know how Elements works. 8(
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This tutorial helped immensely and saved me a lot of time. Thank you!
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Oh, I'm so glad it saved you time and was instructive!
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um...hey there~ i really wanted to learn how to do this because i'm learning how to make a 'web-manga' but unfortunately i don't have Photoshop for some reason...all i have is Paint tool Sai...can u please have a tutorial of this using Sai? It woud really be a great help!
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8< Sorry, I'm not sure how to do dot tones in Sai. You might try to download a copy of gimp or deleter comicworks if you can't get photoshop.
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um..then i really need to download photoshop right?...problem is, i'm not rich enough to buy photoshop...;[...can u help, pls?
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by chance can be applied in photoshop portable? I have a cs5 ... certainly very good tutorial
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* 3 * Oh this was really helpful~! It may be that I am stupid, but I get a little confused around the bitmap part. I have all my greyscales in separate layers, and when I copy them and paste into a new file like you said and convert to bit map...I'm not really sure what to do? If I paste it back into the layer it has white and it covers everything up.
I think I'm misunderstanding or doing something wrong...
Also...is there a way that I can get smaller looking dots? Mine look bigger than yours for some reason. D':
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This may be a pretty stupid question, BUT WHATEVA! Do your scans come in totally perfect to tone or do you have to draw over it with a tablet (ect) and then tone?
Loved the tutorial, it really helped me out!
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No, not usually. I have to edit my scans. XD
There are two main ways to get lineart to be tone ready.
If you ink (as in your lineart is only black and white), then use your scanner's b/w bitmap option, scanning at a minimum of 600dpi. That will produce pretty nice, crisp lineart for toning.
But I don't usually ink (the toned image in the tutorial is not drawn by me). So I scan my pencil art and in photoshop, I go to Image > Adjustments > Levels and change the far left and far right arrows in the level chart until I get a result with darker darks and lighter lights.
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Holy cow, THANK YOU! So. Much. You rock!
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oh did you try the suggestions out? c: which was helpful?
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Both pretty much worked (although there are still those little black dots from the scan, but I can make those disappear on my own) ^^ Thanks so much!
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Great job on the Tutorial I like the background it makes me focus on your work
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lol, the background is good until DA changes the background color once again.
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-fav- thank you 
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oAo I hope that it is helpful for you then! <3
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I hope it will be <3
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So i was looking for random tutorials and i was looking at this one and then i realized OMG its by Blix-it!!! lol
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This is what I've kinda been looking for. Thank you!
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Hey great tut ^_^
was wondering how you use the cgtextures um, textures xD in Photoshop on manga without getting a weird amateurish look? o:
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lol, define "weird amateurish look" and I might be able to help you with that. O_o;;;
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wow you replied already ? xD
I mean like, where the texture looks distorted or disproportioned, I dun want that D8
I really wanna get a professional look going for my manga.
oh and epic ^_^
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I have trouble reading it u_u but it looks like a good tutorial
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You have trouble reading the text?
If so, you could try printing it out. 8D
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Yeah the text that's covered with the backround 
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This tutorial is very helpful.I couldnt thank you enough for this one.?I've been looking all over for a toning tutorial on photoshop...thankyou thankyou thankyou.
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X3 I hope it helps you. If you have confusions, just ask. ^^
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I LOVE YOU. O.O
Some other deviants were trying to explain how to do the halftone crap, but I never got it! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL!! : D This will DEFINATELY help with my webcomic!!!!
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My state didn't get any of Kat and mouse past vol. 2. I loved the series and have been looking for more of it. Any suggestions?
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I'm really glad it was helpful to you! 8D More people need to realize toning is completely easy and awesome with just photoshop. <3
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yes
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thank you! >3< I hope the tutorial is useful to you.
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I hope so too! I'm wanting to make a one-page doujinshi for ~Clorisita and I have Photoshop and all, but I didn't know how to tone it or anything. 
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I dunno. There's prolly loads of them on deviantart! XD
photoshop will do for dot patters
for natural textures I go to cgtextures.com
If there's a certain tone you have in mind though, I could maybe send you something. 8D Since I have the plugins and programs I mentioned in the tutorial here on my computer.
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That would be nice! 
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