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Etoli — TUTORIAL: Digital Paint in PS
Published: 2008-01-23 05:22:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 183945; Favourites: 5771; Downloads: 7612
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Whew! FINALLY. I've been busy, but mostly. . .I can just be a lazy arse sometimes. This being the case. I've been telling people I'll make a digital coloring tut for well about a year now. XD Well. . . it's here! Yay!I didn't go into every finite detail of my painting technique simply because that would have been tedium just to read, let alone follow (not to mention the time it would have taken to put it together). What I've included in this tuturial are a number of simple steps and a few tips that will get you well on the way to coloring your sketches and lineart digitally in photoshop. Many of these techniques will apply similarly in programs like OC and Painter.
While some of this might be old news to the more veteran of digital painters, I really hope this can be helpful to those who are just starting out or are struggling with painting on the computer. Give it a try, and have fun!
Much
, Kelli.**Edit** Why won't DA let us have preview images anymore? It's so tacky! I had this great preview all ready and everything. . .
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yes I know what you say 
but if you really need one you can find some that are cheaper
there are many other tablets than Wacom that cost $100 or so and work just fine
and about the opacity you can find it in Photoshop after you press the paint tool on the top of the screen under the basic toolbars
when you lower the opacity the brush becomes smother
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actualy, Im getting a Toshiba. I can bid on it for $15+, but I gotta buy a battery.. does it need that? for a tablet pc?
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normally I don't think so 
also they are kinda cheap the maximum is $60
keep me up with the news I am so curious about this toshiba tablet
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it's screen can turn around like a owl's head!
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really
yay my tablet will be here monday 
how about you?
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we cant even look for one at cheapest price until income tax. we're poor.
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well I bought one for $40 because the store in my town ordered them from their stock in Bucharest
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where you live? o0;
and how big was it?
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Ilive in a town named Zalau in Romania
I ordered it from a shop named Ultra pro computers and i don't really know I saw it in a catalog
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e.e yuou live.. really far away..
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^_^ how about you?here do you live?
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detroit, michigan, usa. hell on earth.
(actually, hell is a city in my state... )
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wow that's far
here nobody buys tablets so they are really cheap
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no one can aford to buy tablets, so the price can be played with... e.e;
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I'm trying to use your tutorial right now and it's basically amazing. I'm so excited to see what happens.
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ooooooh! so thorough! i'm keeping this for future reference!!!
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This tutorial will certainly help me a lot. Thank you
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You know, I seriously learned more from your little tutorial than all of my years of learning from computer teachers....pretty sad.
This tutorial is awesome, very easy to follow. And like I said, I learned a lot lol.
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I have Painter X, so would the brush you used be the airbrush tool then? And does the "lifting-the-lineart" to a seperate layer work in Painter? Also, what do you use to blend? I would love to experiment with this method but since I have a different program I don't know where to start!!
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Painter is a little bit different. I struggled with finding a comparable brush in that program, but the one I did enjoy using were the oil brush varieties. Blending could be achieved quite nicely with those.
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Wow! That was huge and really helpful, if I knew better what you were talking about. Guess it's time for me to start trying to color my drawings in ps, although traditional ways are easier (color pencils 
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What kind of scanner do you use? Mine doesn't pick up pencil lines so well, I have to almost always use ink. What do you recommend?
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I definitely recommend the HP line of products. Their basic scanner (mine is the scanjet 3970) has worked worderfully for me.
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I have the HP 1210 all in one. It's old and banged up from moving around, and it's never worked as well as I would have liked it to have
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hmmm i see this complaint around a lot and i give the same advice to all.. if its not picking up your lighter lines so well just place a black paper behind the original drawing.. thickness of the paper will vary the results.. hope it helps..
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Thank you so much for this. I'm a student who's just learning the ropes in Photoshop, and I've found this immensely helpful. Granted, it's still not easy, but this had made my attempts at digital painting a lot more bearable.
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Gah, this is so helpful. *u* I absolutely love your style. <3
Thank you for the wonderful tutorial!
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This tutorial just rocks. In fact I think Its one of the best/useful ones Ive stumbled across. Very easy to follow and it answers all those nitty gritty questions Ive been trying to figure out in photoshop. Thanks so much for doing this! <3
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thank you very much for making this!!! it's really well done XD
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I never knew that magic button existed...
I'm very glad I stumbled on this ^^
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Thank you so much for sharing that!
It's easy to follow and not too complex, with beautiful results.
I'm eager to try it out, and it makes me eager to draw ♥.
Thanks again~.
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Awesome use of photoshop's powers. I love the line technique. Thanks!
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this is JUST what i need! now that i finally learned how to use my frikkin' scanner, i can use this to photoshop!
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Thanks! That's what I were searching for a long time. Very useful! And a picture is so pretty
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Fantastic tutorial here, I plan on using except there are a few questions that I would like to ask.
I dont have CS, will that be a problem?
I have started using this tutorial and it all went well up to the selecting the lineart and the darker pixels...It didnt work at all, for some reason it would just continually selcet the whole image and not my lineart. should i make the lineart darker for photoshop to pick it up?
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Well, darkening the lineart should not be the issue. Photoshop should be recognizing any and all pixel data regardless of value range. This could be a cs feature, I'm not entirely sure. They make these little changes between the different versions, and sometimes they are subtle things that I don't notice (and will frustrate people trying to use older versions with this tutorial).
Perhaps try googling your ps question?
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thank you very much
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wow you are good!!!
dude/women you are awesome!
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o my i wanna cry right now..you have shown me the light!!! lol
this is probably the greatest tutorial evurrr!!!
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Hey, what to do you use to make your linework? Is it just a regular pencil? I always have problems with mine, it just looks so sloppy and I want to refine it.
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