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Alternate Title: ESDA's Techniques for Working in the Digital FieldSo many people have begged me to make a backgrounds tutorial that I finally gritted my teeth and made one. This doesn't involve even half of what I do to make a digital landscape, but it should teach you how to better use the tools you have and inspire you to mess around and play with Photoshop some more. I hope you'll create your own techniques for making backgrounds, mine's are not the best nor are they the only ones.
And if it sucks when you make it the first time, try a second time. Practice makes perfect.
Cheerio!
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How do you set a brush to opacity control?
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awesome tutorial thx a lot for adding it ! i used it for a few pictures and they came out great, though not as great as how you did them of course lol and i made sure to give your tutorial credit for the backgrounds ^^
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You should have done this and told people how to do it with a mouse. This tutorial is amazing, but I don't havea tablet and I'm sure that there are many others like me.
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wow! This was great! I didn't even expect to learn how to make a new brush! BONUS! Great job!
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This is brilliant! Thanks so much, I used it in making this [link]
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Thanks so much! It was very helpful!
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;w; Helpful, maybe now I won't fail at backgrounds. XD
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This is a wonderful tutorial! THanks you for showing us how it's done.
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Hey! I have a problem xD After using this tutorial my pencil got strange D: when I use light colors it comes like a line of rainbow colored (of that color) circles 
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About to start working on a background. This will help a lot!
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This tutorial is much appreciated. I have SO MUCH trouble with grass, it's not even funny. This helps so much, you have no idea.
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Thanks for this tutorial. I made my first picture with your help, you should be proud ! Oh but I haven't got your talent, my picture is a failure. I won't show you what I've done. I will practice every day and it will be better ^^.
Really good tutorial, simple to understand for new artists like me ^^ !
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This is amazing and very helpful. I see why your helping with BBA cause...YOU ROCK THOSE BG'S!!!!!! Your simple amazing with bg lovge it 
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Excuse me, but how do you make a new brush? I new to Photoshop...XD. Please answer my question. Please.
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I can safely say that even if you made a tutorial superior to this one, I would still be able to get tons of use out of this. I'm just starting to refine my backgrounds, and I really needed the ideas presented here. I actually did not know the desaturation thing with the horizon. You have saved my newest, best CG! Thank you! xD
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depth doesn't just mean you loose detail further to the back but it also means you loose colour intensity because of he "atmosphere perspective" people often forget, that's why I think this does look quite artificial, you do mention desaturating as you go further into he image... but maybe it should have been a little more, nevertheless this is very good, I like the clear way you explain the brushes and techniques.
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This is a rather old tutorial I made while I was still starting to just grasp the techniques myself, yet people were begging me for one. So I did this to oblige them somewhat and hopefully inspire them to attempt their own backgrounds. However your critique is valid and I constantly seek improvement on my work, so thank you very much for the honest comment. I wish there were more like it on DA, so few know how to critique effectively or accurately here and even fewer realize there's more to it than pointing and yelling "THAT'S WRONG!!"
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lol yeah it's usually either "oooh this is great! fantastic" or "this sucks" lol
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this helped tremendously i made a BG a little like this using your tut nowi cant wait to use these techniques on other kinds of backrounds its really helped before i tired using this (when i din;t haev a tablet 
but i have a Q since you have made alot of tuts is it possible you could make just ONE more (of rain effects and water like things mostly rain) the would be really nice cause that is another thing i SUCK at and your tuts are really easy to use and help me alittle more then others, thankyou
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I haven't really come up with a good repeatable technique for doing water yet, but I'll consider it for the future.
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ok thanks, you do really nice water in BBA i luv yur BGs
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Awesome.
I just have one question- In the part with making the grass brush, how do you open the "brush folder" and fix the opacity?
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THANK YOUUUU
I love your background work in Black Blood Alliance.You're very talented!
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Thank you so much! My backgrounds won't look like a 3-year-old made them anymore! Yay!
By any chance, do you have any suggestions on how to do water? Or woud that take another tutorial? Or can I somehow apply this one making water?
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Study real water (photos are helpful) and try to work it out. I tend to do water a little different each time depending on the situation.
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Okay, I'll try that. Thanks!
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TY TY TY TY!!!!! i needed a tutorial for backgrounds that explained the brushes too!! i have sooo much trouble with backgrounds and this should *hopefully* help! ty!
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understand your brushes and how they affect your artwork is a fundamental part of digital painting. By manipulating them, you can make your artwork that much better (and this goes beyond making simple stamps)
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Hi! Thank you so much for this tutorial, it helped me out a ton on my piece, [link]
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ermm...may i ask?
wad kind of software did u use to make the brush on the both side 'sharp'?
my photoshop can onli make it 'sharp' at one side >.< (using 'fade' mode under control)
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It's probably just a setting mix-up. You likely need to replace "fade control" with "pressure control".
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ahh...nvm...i think i know why.
i dont have the tablet =/
i guess i'll be just using mouse with fade control^^
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How did u do the setting mix-up?
i cant seem to do it >.<
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Amazing tutorial! I have added it to my favorites for future references.
I wish I had Photoshop, but I think I had modify some of the features just enough to work with Paintshop Pro.
Thanks so much for sharing this.
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Amazing. I just used it and I'm stunned. Added it to my fav's and I'll definanatly use it in the future.
Thanks soo much!
AF
Here's where I used it-
[link]
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uh oh, knocking the grass bursh from photoshop might insult some people who love it, that and the auto leaf brushes.
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If they love it, it's because they don't know there's far better alternatives out there. If you're interested in professional graphics work, using things like the default grass brush with no modification what-so-ever is a faux-pas and a sign of an amateur. Better to vary what brushes you work with to get nice, organic looking grass rather than the cloned strokes Photoshop provides.
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and burn and dodge lawls.
I use painter so everything is differnt, I use it a lot and forget i have tools like...what ever it has.
that and my photoshop is 6 and I only have the brushes it came with and the posslby 'wow' brushes. the cloest thing to grass I have looks like a feather or a puff of wheat so everything i do is long or i just murder things with filters like "glass" and "ocean ripple"
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Thanks for this wonderful tutorial. It really helped me.
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nice tutorial...i just installed photoshop 7 on my laptop...and trying to follow ur guide on drawing the grass...but sadly...it doesnt go well >.<
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thank you so much for this tutorial. it has helped me a lot
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