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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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wow ...just wow thts amazing :d u really helped my somewhat bad drawing skillz thx ill be sure to take the information on board umm...CAPTAIN!!! *saluts*
thx man <3
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A friend reccomended this to me. It looks pretty good. I shall practice! Thankyou for your wisdom.
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I'll have to try this some time.............
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this is an awesome tutorial. very easy steps to follow!!
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on stage 2: base color, you can go to select > modify> expand after you've selected with magic wand tool. this gets rid of most jagged edges. =3
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Very very good help!But in the stage 3 when i use the group the thing you have mentioned doesn't happen to me!I have the 2 levels on the same group but,the the first don't mask the second??can u help me??Maybe this not happen in CS2 edition?Cause with ctrl-g i can only create a group!
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The shortcut has been changed between CS and CS2. On CS2, 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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thanks you so much for the quick answer
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quick question, how do you change a black and white picture to use colours, i can seem to use colours on my lineart, also im confused about the background white and the lineart being on seperate layers, cos whenever i load up my picture, its always autmatically is the background layer, the white and lineart included.
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Is the image mode on photoshop set to Greyscale or RBG (Go to Image - Mode to check)? And about the lineart are you saving it as a JPEG then putting it onto photoshop or did you save it as a PSD first? If you're saving it as a JPEG, those pictures can't handle transparency, and will automatically merge all layers. So if the lineart program you use can save the image as a photoshop, do that.
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ahhhhh ok i didn't know that, on the first point i did manage to figure out how to change it from greyscale to colours, and that was what you said, but you must be right about this, cos i followed your thing exactly then i saved it and reopened it and was like wtf lol, so damn, and i assume theres no way of going back without restarting the whole thing.
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Oh no, if you saved it as a file that's used for the program, like with the GIMP its type of file is called XCF, the file can still save it with layers, so just open the file you made the lineart in that has layers, as re-save it as a photoshop.
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ok thanks ^^, im sure i will eventually figure it out, great guide as well, =3
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This really helpful an this is a awsome tutorial i didn't know you colud do all thos thing in photoshop
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Excellent and very detailed tutorial, thank you very much!!
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Man, i hope someday ill think this tut sucks, so i can have my own style 
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wow, You explain everything so clear and simple
this tutorial really helps me ^^
thank You very, very much for that
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Nice tutorial 
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When you use dodge, fill the layer with the neutral color, that is black, then use white brushes.
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That's a really great tutorial, thanks
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very nice tutorial, really helpful!
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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell me what kind of brush you used to make that lineart?
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oh my freaking g. this tut is EXCELLENT. thank you so much for putting it together - it's so easy to understand!!
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i love your tutorials!
anyway, whenever i try this the picture i scanned always comes out way too big, is there anyway to fix that?
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Changing dpi will shrink the size.
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If only my lineart were as good as yours *_*
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Hahaha.
Ah but hair is sooo hard. Especially when u lineart it on a tablet.
Question, how old were u when u drew that lineart in the tutorial? (For comparison reasons, you don't have to tell if you don't want to).
because for a first anime drawing. ITS DAMN GOOD.
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The end result is amazing, but I suppose I'm too much of a nooB to understand EVERY step.
Merde!
If you get the time, PLEASE let me know where you got the original line art. Do I somehow have to draw it myself?
Thank you for helping. Take care.
Grazie é caio.
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It's my work. In other word, you have to draw it yourself.
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Darn! Thanks for replying though.
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Im having trouble with the Group Layers. Im using CS3 and even if i grouped it does not mask. help?
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Use Ctrl-Alt-G instead of Ctrl-G.
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