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Published: 2008-07-10 13:34:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 23263; Favourites: 327; Downloads: 388
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A Cell-Shading tutorial for Paint.NET (pdn). Paint.NET is a free image editing program. You can download it here: www.getpaint.net Maybe I'll make a lineart one. Hope I didn't waste your time with reading this, ROFL.Lineart used in this tutorial is done by *ColorMeWonderful .
Brushes/stamps/whatever were taken from some Polish blog with stuff for CG.
So =Chamao wanted a tutorial for shading in Paint.NET so I tried to make one *epicfailshot*
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You do realize you saved my life right?
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lol she does look like candy may wanna take a bite... yummy
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Does anyone know how to get rid of the squares in the back ground there pestering me .-.
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If you want your layer to stay transparent you can't do anything about them.
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yay! i am getting really tired of having to shade using the guassian blur and a million selections.... =3
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Ah, I've been trying to find a way to color effectively on paint.net, and so far this has worked out for my practice pictures.
Thank you for the wonderful Tutorial~
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I got confuzzled because you didn't include the steps on hair shading. ; x;
Well anyway, your tutorial really helped me out a lot!
Thank you so much for posting this!
CG is a pain. D;
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Well, you do it pretty much the same as skin, so I just skipped it.
I'm glad the tutorial's helpful xD
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Ah,ok. I didn't realize that the layers were important until you mentioned them in the tut.
The more I know. c:
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If you want to submit a picture made in Paint.NET on dA, save it in a format different than .pdn. Use for example .png.
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This is a really helpful tutorial, good job ^^
....but I seem to have run into a problem =/
Whenever I use the brush tool using white as my colour, it somehow disappears behind the Background layer.
Now, did you make the Background layer white (the default layer in Paint.NET), and then just erase the Background layer (grey) you made in the tutorial to make white areas....
....or am I just completely missing something <:/?
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I'm not sure if I got what you said right, but I'll try to help.
"Whenever I use the brush tool using white as my colour, it somehow disappears behind the Background layer."
That can only happen if you're using white on a Multiply layer. The white areas will appear if you change the layer's setting to Normal.
I think this should solve the problem.
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Ah, that sounds about right.
Will setting the layer to Normal effect the tutorial at all....?
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Alright thanks for the help, and I can't emphasize how much this tutorial has helped me ^^!!
Thanks for doing it =3
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thank you so much, miss demoned [was that too formal..? >>;]. D8
wonderful tutorial! this will really help me out a lot. β₯
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Youβre welcome, Iβm glad my tutorial is helpful
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Hi. I have drawn my picture on the backround layer and I want to put a backround behind that. Is there away to do that?
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Yes. First, in the layer settings change the layer's mode to Multiply. Then make a new layer under the lineart layer. The background now can be added on this layer.
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thank you so much! this helped a lot! there is so litle paint.net tutorial's
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Thanksies so much for this tutorial! ;w; I just recently downloaded this program so I was pretty lost on how to cell shade. ^o^' Your tutorial really helped me a lot! >w<
(The piccy I made thanks to this, if you're interested in seeing it for whatever reason :3 [link] )
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OMG thank you! I've been wondering how to CG in PDN for a long time now.
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Thanx for putting this up!! It help alot with my Soruna picture [link]
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thnx 4 da tutorilal
i tried it on 1 of my submissions n its really useful ^^
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Glad it's helpful
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i'm a beginner and i just like to ask.. what's the difference of lineart coloring and cell shading??
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Uuuh... Lineart coloring is any kind of coloring. Cellshading is hard shading. Soft shading is well, soft shading.
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Oh i see.. thanks a lot ^^
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This great for a Paint.NET user like me! 
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Thank you, glad you like it. It takes practice. You have to be quite precise when doing cellshading, so it's actually harder than soft shading.
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Yup, I don't enjoy doing cell shading a lot >.< Luckily I think I've figured out a way to soft shade in the program since we don't have airbushes yet ^^
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Nah, you just blur the hell out of everything. You just have to go beyond the lines with the shading (and clean up later) so that there won't be empty space near the lines.
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Oh yeah, I see what you mean ^^ I did that before and there were always empty spaces inside the lines, so I didn't like blurring =/
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Using the smudge tool is a pretty good idea~ I color with it in PS now
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I don't PS, but I also have this other program that uses the Smudge tool ^^ I just downloaded a plugin where Paint.NET can import your current layer into another program to edit!
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I've seen a patch somewhere, it adds the smudge tool.
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Really? 
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Hah, if they keep on upgrading Paint.NET nobody will want to buy Photoshop anymore 
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Is that good or bad?
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Bad for the people that own Photoshop xD I got Photoshop recently but I can't seem to find a good coloring technique so I use smudging for now.
Yes, GIMP has a few things that Paint.NET does not have. But GIMP is sort of hard to use. It confuses me.
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I know! xD I downloaded GIMP once to try it out, but it was too confusing. Like it opened up a new window when I wanted to try an effect like a lens flare.
Hmm, lucky! How much did that Photoshop cost you? O.o
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It's Photoshop Elements, and I won it on auction for about... using the American value translation system it'd be something like 20$. I still can't believe I got it this cheap.
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