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Published: 2010-10-15 19:54:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 14292; Favourites: 389; Downloads: 223
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I found myself in trouble a lot of times for not succeding archiving a decent screentone background in the past so I wanna help the ones like me to pull out those backgrounds that we all looooove
Used Ps CS3, please note me if something doesn't work on older or more recent versions. If you have questions or just feel the need to point out a mistake
comment okay?Enjoy your backgrounds!!
And yes, I know there are more tuts on DA about this topic but I fel the need to show you how I do it
Second Part here: [link]
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How do you get this to work with color? like how you did for the background of the tutorial. I'm trying to get blue dots on a pale yellow background.
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well follow the tutorial in black and white. than use the magic wand tool to select the white background, make sure to have selected all of it, (right click on the white area than choose π: 0 β©: 0
I have a problem D: , os when I use the filter and all , but when I apply the fulter apear blue dots into da color were IΒ΄m working but I havnpt selectes that color D:
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I can't say i really understood your problem fully, or at least what you said that was happening but I got it that you said that you get some color in the middle of the dots. There are more things that can cause this, again i didn't really understand the whole situation, but. First of all you need to be sure you worked on a new layer and that the gradient was black. No color added. Pure jet black. Than, you need to make sure that it is a white layer! Use the bucket tool and fill the whole layer with white than add the gradient. Than you need to make sure the channels are set right. I set them all at 10, sure you can try other combinations, but this set gives the effect that I've shown in my tutorials. I think that the problem might come from not using a black gradient. You need to do so in order for it to work. You can lock the pixels of the layer when you have your tone done and get it in any other color you want but the base has to be black otherwise it will read your colours and will try to break them into basic tones, which migth result into either overlapping of dots or into having a dot of colour in the middle of a black dot. I really hoped it helped, try it again and if you still have problems just leave another reply and I'll try my best to help you fix it.
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Thanks for this simple but effective tip. Now I know!
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i'm very glad i helped
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Oooooh. Thanks. I just recently started using CS3 for typesetting, so I'm not entirely familiar with it yet.
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really glad it helped ^3^
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Finally! The mystery has been revealed to me!! Thank you!!
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awww haha your very welcome XDD
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Thank you for posting this! It really came in handy for me.
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i'm very glad it did 
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I donΒ΄t know why when I do it in black and white is ok, but is I do it in color it dosenΒ΄t work well QAQ
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yes i know about this problem, what you can do though is to make it black and white just like the tut shows and than
a) make another layer over that one and set it on screen and paint over
or
b) click on one of the black spots by using the magic wand tool and than left click and selct grow similar and than paint over
try these methods and tell me if it worked
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Thank you very much it really worked XD Now I can do a decent BG
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your very welcome 
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Is there anyway to do ths in SAI?
or it there a tutorial for this on SAI?
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i just got SAI 3 days ago 
if you want, i know this amazing artist which i really respect, =Guitarheroineno1 and i know she works with SAI, i'm quite sure she'll answer your question better than i could
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thank you so much!
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your welcome, sorry i couldn't help more
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its just fine!
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Thank you so much for the tutorials!!! It helped me A LOT! Thank youuuuuu!!!!!~ <33
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aww your very welcome 
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Oh and and if you wanna see... Here's the link to the picture in where I used your tutorials!!! - - > [link]
I also credited you for it so don't worry~
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wow very pretty
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Heheh, glad you like it!!~
And no problem FullAnimeZone!~
And and thankies so much for the fave!~
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yep it was really nice and your welcome for the fave 
oh thank you and i prefer just full-chan or simply full
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You're welcome Full-Chan!
And and thanks too~ 8D
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Thank you for sharing!! I really appreciate it!!
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aww your welcome
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Omg, this tutorial had helped me so much!
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oh my, really? that's great to hear i really hoped it will come in use to someone ^^ be sure to check the second part too
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Yup! I really struggle with screentones but this helps me a lot.
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oh great to hear
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oh, your very welcome
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oh, really glad i could help
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Suteki!!! =o I looove this tutorial >w< I always wanted to know how to make screentones, but I never knew where I could find tutorials, so, right now, I'm just happy /o/
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awww...
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ohhh your very welcome
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your welcome, i had trouble doing this in the past and thought it might help the ones like me
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