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forte-girl7 β Tutorial: Shading with Masks in SAI
Published: 2012-07-21 22:01:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 50853; Favourites: 1110; Downloads: 793
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Part 2 of the Paint Tool Sai tutorial! This bit covers shading with Masks! Hope it helps!Also, I do have to thank ~BechnoKid for originally teaching me how to do this. Passing the knowledge onto you!
Part 1 - Colouring with the Fill Bucket: [link]
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Appreciate the comprehensive tutorial! I think this will make coloring much easier!!
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Is there any significant difference between a clipping layer and a mask layer?
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-F8n4β¦
it's about Photoshop but it's similar to Sai.Β
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OMG thankyou very much! It helps me a lot ;_;
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I seem to get the same effect with layer mask in the shading with or without multiply, whats the point?
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my ctrl key wont work. 
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Thanks alot for these tutorials, it was exactly what i needed! Those tricks sure will save me tons of time in the future!
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Thank you for making this tutorial. It was easy to follow, and I did it right on my first try, which is rare considering English is not my first language xD
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This made understanding layer masks so much easier! It's so much more fun to experiment with shading now
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Do you lower the opacity at all for this image after you did the multiply?
Thanks for the tutorial!
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On this picture, I don't think I did. I do occasionally play with opacity from time to time though.
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Ooooookay...my sai must be broken because ctrl clicking doesn't do anything. Just changes the pen icon to the plus thing and nothing happens.
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You ctrl+click the thumbnail image of the layer to select the full contents of that layer, not on the canvas itself.
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That's what I was doing but nothing happens. Not sure why.
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I just dont understand why people use masks. Is there something special? Because I can do the same with overlay and spare myself the selcting-trouble.Β
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i dont see the problem with learning some new techniques to help your workflow :3
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One more thing. If you make the layer Luminosity instead of Multiply, it makes for really nice highlights. I used this tutorial and that aforementioned trick to make my latest submission. So I say thanks, forte-girl7 and BechnoKid.
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Oh yeah, that's also how I do highlights too, except I use Overlay most of the time. : )
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hmm this is the first time using them....i LIKE IT! thank you. this was the easiest tutorial to go by that i have found
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No problem : ) Glad it helped
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Thank you SOOO much! I have always wondered how others did this!!!
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No problem : ) Glad to have been of some help ^^
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This tutorial is so amazing, thank you for creating it! Also, thank you kindly for explaining in more detail down in the comments, reading that was a big help as well 
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Of course! If you have any other questions, feel free to ask and I'll try and help figure them out best I can!
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I can not thank you enough!
I've seen people do this on Speedpaints yet never figured out how! You are a life saver at easier and faster ways to get a picture done! I LOVE YOU! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! What now! What Now! Yeahhhhhhhhhh-! Yayayayyayaay! HUZZAH!
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I always have trouble with the ctrl+click thing ://
whenever I have to select multiple layers, it never seems to workΒ x _ x
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I don't think you can select multiple layers in SAI - yet. Apparently there's a version 2 coming out soon that will support that, plus many other things : )Β
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Right it think I understand. So basically its a bit like clipping group?
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Question: Up until now, I've just used a normal layer at 40-50% opacity in between my lines coloring layers. I use a color for my shadows that is a bit darker than the color the shadow is over. What is the difference between what I have been doing and this method? Are there any added benefits to doing it this way, like being able to do different kinds of shadows?
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No, that's fine. If you look at one of my other tutorials (this one, I believe: forte-girl7.deviantart.com/art⦠I say you can fill in the proper ares with just a darker colour instead of multiplying the shading layer over it. Doing it that way is just a quick and easy way to do it. Also, the reason for using a mask is just to keep things from going outside the lines, to keep it neat and whatnots
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Hmm, I have a question. What works better this mask method or the Clipping group method? Aren't they both masks?
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thank for the tutorial, it really helped!
it didnt do the marching ants thing when i ctrl clicked my colour layer tho...
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Hmm... what did it do? Did it select it in blue?
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yeah, it does that instead
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Okay, that's basically the same as the marching ants. If you select a tool that isn't any sort of Selection Tool (wand, lasso, select pen, etc), then it should turn to marching ants
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So I don't know if I've said this, but this is awesome. Thank you so much for doing it!
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Haha, been there, done that
A very useful tutorial though
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i have maybe a dumb question - but what's the difference between mask and simply new layer in clipping group?
i never used masks in my entire life, and i'm willing to give it a shot, but i just don't know what for.
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