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dominique871 — PSP tutorial for mouse users
Published: 2005-05-11 13:07:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 11419; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 2865
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This is my Easy and Convenient Tutorial for ABSOLTUE BEGINNERS in Photoshop using mouse!!!Me and my friendly pet Poring have created this very very simple tutorial I did for those of you who use a MOUSE to do your anime art. I used to use mouse until recently and I understand how absolutely agonizing it is to colour with a mouse. T___T
Erm...actually I'm a bit nervous about uploading this tutorial cause I'm not a pro at Photoshop myself...in fact I just learnt that Photoshop existed about 2 months ago..so yeah. TT_____TT
But I've been colouring with mouse for a fair amount of time using other programs, so don't worry ne. ^^
I actualy did this tutorial for a friend of mine who asked - but I thought why not share it with everyone else too ne? So here it is!!
Sorry if it takes long to load..the file size is so huge...and i couldnt shrink it any further without making the words too blurry to read...
The bit about erasing ... I'm not so sure...so if anyone has any better way to do it instead of eraser of magic wand...please let me know ne!! *^_^*
Erm...I'll probably move this into scraps after some time...I'm quite scared to what reactions I will get, this being my first tutorial and all...
I hope you understand it and enjoy!!!^^
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no prob, glad you liked it!!
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Hey, I tried out your tutorial on Saigo no Shisha .... Thought maybe if you could/would/wanted to check it out 
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YES! Finally an Photoshop tutorial that I think I can use
*falls down and thanks dominique*
*stands up straight again*
Well.. lemme just get to work
You may expect a note or an e-mail from me, since I'm a total (and you can underline TOTAL) Photoshop nut xD
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lolol..... 
and i'm so pleased u like the tut!!! thank you!! good luck!!
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i am NEVER going to be able to make something that even looks a bit like this! i mean it, i really suck at PS and drawing, but anyways : i will give it a try, and i will ask you if i have any questions. this tut makes it look easy
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of course!! I'll try and help you the best I can if you have any questions! And I'm sure you'll be able to make something x100000000000 times better than this!!! O____O
good luck with it and glad you like it!!
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Woaoh... A very pretty girl with these wonderful blue-green eyes...
I just have one question: How do you make the shadows on the skin? Do you just use the lasso and color the whole area, or you take the hairs and do some transformation to have the shape of the shadow...
For shadowing, I found no tutorial on the web (for adding a shadow of a people when you put it on a background where he is not born in)... Not easy to do...
Thanks for your so cool tutorail 
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The shadows? Yeah I just use the polygonal lasso and select the areas I want to be darker, and I choose a colour that's darker than the base colour and I just use the paint bucket and fill it!! *^___^*
its very simple. It's really good if you have at least three colours for one base - so there's like three shades of shadows - it really adds to the depth of it.
If you want a real shadow of a person, like a person standing on the ground and you can see his shadow on the ground, you can try using the Drop Shadow effect - you right click on the layer and choose Blending Properties ---> Drop Shadow and there you can play around and create some nifty shadow effects.
Did you understand all that? 
I'm glad you liked my tutorial!! Thank you!!!
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:frustratred: It's the third time I try to answer you... each time before I had a problem with my webbrowser that makes me restart from the beginning...
First, I want to thank you for this so quick answer...and with so much details!!
So, you can use the polygonal lasso and put some colors... yes, I think it's better than just using the mouse and a brush and colorize like that ^_^ Thanks also to have making me discovered the "Dodge tool" and "Burn tool"... I hope that now, despite my absence of gifts in drawing, I can do something not so bad!!
Concerning the "drop shadow", I already have tried it. My objective is to create the shadow of a standing people in a beach...one these long long shadows... But with this Blending Properties, I just managed to create the kind of shadow you have if you stay in front of a wall... or a poster (and I don't want to have my model standing in front of a poster of a beach...
Maybe I misused it 
If you have any useful links or information about this subject, I will be very grateful of your help...
(since now I am in China for a long long time...and all the books about Photoshop are in chinese.....even if I can read some chinese, there is too much for me!! The conclusion of that is that I can't find any very "clear" book about PhothoshopCS )
Thanks for everything, your tutorial, your comment-answer, and so on....
JF
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hahaha..
nyaa i'm sorry about the drop shadow thing >__<"
erm maybe this method will work...what I've seen people do is use the path tool and select the outline of your character then save it as a path....and the go to paths...make it a working path...and select path...then fill selection...then change it back to a layer and just rotate or transform it until it looks like a shadow..
ok...that looks very cluttered...let me tell u step by step..
1. create a new layer and use the path tool to trace the outline
2. fill the path with black (or whatever shadow colour)
3. select the layer with the shadow and transform it to the way you want it to look
4. lock transparency (a padlock icon will appear)
5. fill with colour!
i'm not sure if its the right way to do cuz i've only tried it once and i wasnt doing a shadow - but i think it should work for shadow.
You can try it too! *^__^*
and thank you for adding me to your watch list ne!!
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Thanks thanks and thanks....
I think this way is more clean that the one I used before... but a little more complicated. But I think I can get rid of it by practising!
You're welcome for my adding you in my watch list... even if I don't know how to watch it now!!
You helped me, so...I can watch you!! hehe
In fact, we are not so far from each others!! I just saw you are in Malaysia?
Is it
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yes i am from malaysia! *^___^*
but now i am studying in australia boo hoo T__T
but malaysia is still my home country!! *^__^*
and you are from china, yay!!
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Very nice tutorial, but the random doodles distracted me :-P A+
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nyar har har!!! feel the power of random doodlesss!!! XD
aww i'm sorry...i did them to try and make it less boring.... T___T
sorry sorry sorry!! *bows and forces random doodles to bow too*
My sincerest apologies!!
and thank you for commenting!!!
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It was an honor to comment, and the doodles weren't a bad thing
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very very helpfull that idea with layers.. i just started colouring my images.. hopefully one day i`ll learn to do it well
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you're welcome!
i'm so glad you found it useful!! *^___^*
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lol i used to...then it wasnt free nymore...so i stopped.. >____<"
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Extremely helpful, i didn't realise you could do cell shading with the lasso (ooo ^^), thats very new to me, so thank you!! * goes off to try it out*
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lol i'm glad you found it helpful. ^__^
some people like to do cell shading with the pen tool instead - but i find the pen tool more complicated and kinda strange to use...so the lasso for me is much easier and it still does the job! ^^
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yeah, i used to do all shading with the pen, I'm so glad that there's an easier way ^^
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o(*O*)o woh amazing~~~
this ish helpful, it really add some xtra informations about using photoshop (^v~)o
coz I'm using mouse for cg all this time ._. and I never went so systematic with step by step..
I just colour~!!! ohoho how amateur @v@;;
Nicely done! *thumbs up* ^v^
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Thank you!!
just colouring is good as well it works for some people!
as long as it looks hebat in the end its fine!!
thank you for commentingggggg~~~ ^^
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and thank you for adding!!
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O.O I wana get photoshooop TT____TT Darn it..
But yeah! The tutorial is pretty simple ^___^ I understood it...
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oh yay!! great!! *^___^*
aww you should get photoshop...its really useful..
or u can get other programs like open canvas or painter...those are all excellent as well!! ^^ good luck!
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I COULD get opencanvas or painter..but there is so much more stuff for Photoshop ^__^
Plus I wana try out your tutorial..as well as many others, of course. Nyeeh.
myyu
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Brilliant! The evil one grants his wholehearted endorsement of this product!! XD
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Lol!!!
thank you!!
*snatches endorsement forms and cackles madly*
#____#
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Wow! Awsome tutorial...
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arrrhhhhh I can't believe you found it helpful!! Thanks thanks thanks so much!!! *^___^*
Good luck with the colouring...and dont hesitate to ask if you don't understand anything ne!!!
yea and dont worry bout the airbrush...just play around with it and you will see how nice and soft it can be...good luck good luck good luck!!!
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thank you!! *^_^* Glad you like it!!
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thank you!! I'm glad you found it helpful!!!! *^____^* That makes my day!!
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no problem ^-^.... In my opinion it was really really helpful 'cause I didn't have idea of how to colour anything in photoshop
*yup I'm a newbie in photoshop >_>* ... XDD hahaha now the layers make sense XP.... Really, awesome job with that ^-^
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ok um i really need a lesson in photoshop using. it's so awesome and yet i can't use and i have to do all my drawings manually and scan them in!!!
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yea a lot of people find scanning drawings in a lot easier to work with! *^__^* Even i still scan my drawings in instead of drawing them straight!!!
Well good luck with the photoshop and if you have any questions just ask I'll try to help you ne!!
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Interesting... I'm too lazy to read tutorials x.x Maybe I will later when I get a nap so I shall be more awake 
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hahaha!! oh really!?
thank you!!! *^_^* You dont really have to read it if you're not an Absolute Beginner With A Mouse cause then you'll know everything in there already LoL....
Thanks for taking the time to commenting...and fill my empty empty lil message center... T______T
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yea drawing with a mouse!!! that thing that clicks on things!
i think i put a typo error in the tutorial where I accidentally wrote 'mouse tool' instead of just 'mouse'...guess that must've been confusing.. T____T
I'm sorry sorry sorry!!! >__<"
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lol well I haven't read it yet so now I know
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finally i can learn well! lol...i'll be adding it to my fave cuz i need help with photoshop ^^
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thank you!!! i'm really glad if it turns out to be helpful!!!!
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