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celesse — Photoshop Cel Shading Tutorial
Published: 2004-08-13 04:04:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 281829; Favourites: 3053; Downloads: 88981
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Here it is, as promised.Yes, I have a tablet. Yes, this should work with any version of Photoshop even though I used 7. Yes, I did it totally on the computer, but you can scan a sketch/ink and apply the same methods.
I think that covers everything...but probably not.
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Thank you Celesse! This should help me out some (...some. No matter how much I photoshop my art, it WILL suck!
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At lasteh!!!
LOVE TO TOU!
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This is going to be really handy!! Thanks for uploading it
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i shall be finding this verrrry useful!!!
Just one question.....when u draw and scan it in, pencil lines are often not even and crisp like your tablet drawn lines.......how do you "ink up" your lines so they go smooth and even? I had this problem the other day when i tried to colour up a picture i had drawn in my sketchbook, and then transferred into photoshop
thankies!!!!
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You could try Image > Adjustments > Brightness & Contrast. Boost both of those until the line art looks crisp and clean.
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yeh.....when you do yours do you use the pen tool to touch up....or is that just for shadows?
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that was the most funnest and easiest tutorial I ever learned, No I can enjoy paiting again yay! 
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Think you can do a tutorial for the soft shading too?
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Oh, that's so cute and awesome!!! ^___^
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i'm clicking on the arrow but it wont download!!
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OOoo yay! This shall help very much o^^o Thankie youie!
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I do color my pics a bit different than you do, I usually paint the base colors with the brush tool and then erase the parts I don't need. I guess everybody has their own way to cg. That's why is nice to read this kind of tutorials and learn from other artists.
It's such a great tut, celesse! Thanks for sharing your way to cel shade with us!
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This would help me if only I had Photoshop! x__X;
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Dude, this is so awesome!! ^_____^ Thankyou!
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this may be handy...
well I try the last CG tutorial (you painting the 'harvest' deviatation)
help me a bit, but the results became under of expectation...
but is not your fault, with sure....
well.... I'll keep on trying
thanks 4 the help!
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I have one question about it. Often you refered to using the pen tool. From what I could see, you had the brush too selected. Which one are you really using?
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The brush tool. I forgot that's not called the "pen" tool.
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Having just acquired Photoshop 7 myself, I'm still perplexed by that part of the tutorial. I just can't see how you managed those lines. 
Just an incredibly steady hand? That lines look vector-like in their fluidity.
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I guess it's just something I'm good at. D: I never realized how difficult it's actually supposed to be until people started questioning me on how I get the lines so smooth.
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I think you need a separate tutorial just for that
I can't accomplish anything close to yours without the help of Flash, AND I've got a wacom Intuos. =/
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I think she refers to the brush tool as pen tool. But the real pen tool is the one people use (including me) to make paths.
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thank u ^-^= all the helps for learning how to color sketches are welcom3!
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This is amazingly cute and also very informative ^^ Great job!! I, personally, am horrible @ photoshop, but I'd like to give your approach a try 
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An awesome tute from my fave artist! ^^
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photoshop is really nothign for me ... i could do nothing in it ...
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cel shading on photoshop....sounds awesome. thanks!
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yay a shading tutorial!!! 
Oo I love your new avy X3
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*crys* finnaly WEEEEEEHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE XD
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very very helpful! really did clear up my misty spots. OOo but one last question. coloring the eye... that is one feat i have yet to master. how do you decide how to do it? in the tutorial the eye goes from plain green to BAM colorful...!
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A lot of sections went from flat to BAM colorful.. 
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very very helpful! really did clear up my misty spots. OOo but one last question. coloring the eye... that is one feat i have yet to master. how do you decide how to do it? in the tutorial the eye goes from plain green to BAM colorful...!
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THis is an awesome tutorial ^-^ I just wish I knew how to line with the pen tool o_0 *shot*
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thanx alot for the tutorial. I am just learning how to use photo shop, and the tutorial helped me to understand more about shading and how to use layers..
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oh my god
i love your stuff!
it was the first stuff that i saw and it made me join DA
hope you keep on drawing
fluff
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