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Description As I promised to some of the people here, I'm releasing the first tutorial here.

This is the tutorial for how to do soft cell shading on Photoshop, based on my experience.

The version of Photoshop used in the tutorial is 6. If you use later versions, names of tools/modes and/or allocation of shortcut keys might be different.
I'm working on Windows, so if you use Mac please change these notations as: Ctrl to Command, Alt to Option.

I just hope it helps you.
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Comments: 2665

ShootingStar03 [2009-06-10 12:18:37 +0000 UTC]

Interesting... You're good~! ^^

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getty In reply to ShootingStar03 [2009-06-20 02:21:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! ^^

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ShootingStar03 In reply to getty [2009-06-21 02:05:32 +0000 UTC]

Anytime~ ^^

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madsin92 In reply to ??? [2009-06-09 11:39:49 +0000 UTC]

I worship you XD

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getty In reply to madsin92 [2009-06-20 02:19:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks XD

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hinarytea In reply to ??? [2009-06-08 00:02:46 +0000 UTC]

This is soooo helpful! I'm not quite through coloring yet, but I read it and it's already really helpful! Your program seems similar to mine, so I can relate immediately! Thanks so much!!

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getty In reply to hinarytea [2009-06-20 02:18:18 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Rubenandres77 [2009-06-01 00:16:00 +0000 UTC]

Excellent tutorial. With this I've learned new techniques and tricks that will undoubtedly be useful for my future drawings.

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getty In reply to Rubenandres77 [2009-06-20 02:14:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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Anischenko In reply to ??? [2009-05-29 19:49:34 +0000 UTC]

Looks quite interesting. I don't have any drawing board, but I'm saving this should the day come.

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getty In reply to Anischenko [2009-06-05 12:23:30 +0000 UTC]

Hope it'll help someday.

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Hayao-kun In reply to ??? [2009-05-27 04:59:14 +0000 UTC]

thanks so much!

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getty In reply to Hayao-kun [2009-05-29 13:00:09 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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LimeGreenBunny In reply to ??? [2009-05-25 18:09:50 +0000 UTC]

wow! this is definitely very helpful...thanks!

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getty In reply to LimeGreenBunny [2009-05-29 12:59:34 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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MitchhhMickkkMichhh In reply to ??? [2009-05-23 01:41:51 +0000 UTC]

THANK U SO MUCH!!!

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getty In reply to MitchhhMickkkMichhh [2009-05-29 10:55:28 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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ShinigamiErie In reply to ??? [2009-05-22 01:01:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow! This tutorial is so amazing and so useful! It helped me so much! Thanks a lot for making it! C:

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getty In reply to ShinigamiErie [2009-05-29 12:38:34 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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NiekArt [2009-05-19 15:10:14 +0000 UTC]

sweetness

does this tutorial also work on manga studio ex?

i hope it does xD

but reallygood job

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Salvador-Raga In reply to ??? [2009-05-12 20:36:40 +0000 UTC]

Excellent tutorial, thank you for share!

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getty In reply to Salvador-Raga [2009-05-17 09:43:28 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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Painful--Truth In reply to ??? [2009-05-12 17:41:38 +0000 UTC]

You really have nice tuts...

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getty In reply to Painful--Truth [2009-05-17 09:42:59 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Painful--Truth In reply to getty [2009-05-18 12:30:54 +0000 UTC]

^^

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Otacon144 In reply to ??? [2009-05-12 00:36:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh, glorious and useful!

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getty In reply to Otacon144 [2009-05-17 09:40:50 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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zapphy In reply to ??? [2009-05-09 00:54:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow! A Great work!
Thank you for made such a nice and very useful tutorial


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getty In reply to zapphy [2009-05-17 09:40:12 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Learnt In reply to ??? [2009-05-08 07:28:18 +0000 UTC]

A very useful tutorial. Thank you very much.

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getty In reply to Learnt [2009-05-09 09:36:56 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

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Katchrina-the-jugaur In reply to ??? [2009-05-07 23:01:31 +0000 UTC]

I dont quite get the part when you Group the shading layer and stuff. Im not usre what to do...i pressed ctrl+ G but how did u do the circles and stuff?

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getty In reply to Katchrina-the-jugaur [2009-05-09 09:37:55 +0000 UTC]

The shortcut has been changed between PS7 and CS. On CS and later, it's Ctrl-Alt-G and the name of the function is "Create clipping mask".
Use Ctrl-Alt-G for creating clipping mask on CS and later instead of Ctrl-G.

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Katchrina-the-jugaur In reply to getty [2009-05-09 12:26:53 +0000 UTC]

oh ok thank you very much ^^

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rockyashby In reply to ??? [2009-05-07 07:38:21 +0000 UTC]

Very nice tut, incredibly helpful.:d

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getty In reply to rockyashby [2009-05-09 09:38:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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Mewball In reply to ??? [2009-05-03 17:36:54 +0000 UTC]

WONDERFUL! i just got the demo for PS and this helped me a ton :3 TY!

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getty In reply to Mewball [2009-05-05 14:25:05 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Lykouros In reply to ??? [2009-05-03 01:57:39 +0000 UTC]

Very helpful, nice tutorial

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getty In reply to Lykouros [2009-05-05 14:24:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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Lykouros In reply to getty [2009-05-05 23:11:39 +0000 UTC]

Welcome

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Locou In reply to ??? [2009-05-02 11:24:34 +0000 UTC]

nice. very useful.

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getty In reply to Locou [2009-05-05 14:24:11 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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hikileyu In reply to ??? [2009-05-02 09:10:18 +0000 UTC]

Wow thanks! Now I know how to make the lines less visible.

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getty In reply to hikileyu [2009-05-05 14:24:05 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

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sorabu In reply to ??? [2009-05-01 23:17:11 +0000 UTC]

You did an awesome job with making this tutorial clear and easy to understand. I cant wait to try it out. Thanks!

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getty In reply to sorabu [2009-05-05 14:23:43 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Kilu-Chan In reply to ??? [2009-04-26 02:49:56 +0000 UTC]

One of the best tutorials I'd ever read
Covers the basics while at the same time showing advanced concepts.
So useful for a beginner like me!

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getty In reply to Kilu-Chan [2009-05-05 14:21:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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lexis-l In reply to ??? [2009-04-24 20:11:38 +0000 UTC]

One of the best tutorials I've ever seen, thank you so much!

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