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Published: 2006-01-11 13:48:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 728694; Favourites: 16131; Downloads: 157228
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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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I'll be glad if this tutorial helps you improve, and thank you for the comment!
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hey thanks for making this
its a much more effective way of applying lighting and shadding to a picture the i've been using > >;
its also an easyer way to colour in general
(usually has everything coloured on a dif layer making it too complicated)
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You're welcome, hope it helps.
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Ah, if only I could afford PhotoShop, digital painting would take only hours instead of days. XD Then again, I should really practice more often. 
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I'm not really superstitious , but as I was reading the description I scrolled back up to fav it, when I reached the end of this tute I noticed 6660 +favs..."eh?"
Ah well. Nice tutorial, very informative. Most of all I love the piccie :0
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Haha, anyways I'm glad if you like it.
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this is great! im going to try it when i have time as i absolutely suck at colouring
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wen i use the blur tool it turns the color black...am i doing something wrong?T-T This looks like such an awesome tutorial and i wanna do more. Plz help!
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this is so cool, I'll be pratice! thanks xD
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damit - i wanna use this - but i dont have photoshop - i got arcsoft which is crap :/
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Oh, this is great!!! *_*
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this.
is..
AWESOME!!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING UR KNOWLEDGE!! XD
i hav 1 question (total beginner) is ur drawing a scan or is it made on a comp?
if i use a scan as a base drawing, can i still have the same result?
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wow this tutorial is just amazing and really helpfull ^^
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thank you!
I got photoshop today, and this tutorial just SAVED me! It was really helpful <3
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Glad to know that it helped you.
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Thanks so much! This helped alot!
And Eruru looks so kawaii!
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HAHA! You make it so complicated!! ..that's cool, ey o_Ô
But HEY!! AAAAAAWESOME!! 
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this is a very good, detailed tut, i really want to try it sometime, hope it helps
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So, I have Paintshop photo X2, is there any hope of myself converting the tutorial to my program? Or should I give up an look for a PSP tutorial?
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Very informative! Thanks for making this.
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uhmmm... ima trying it rii now, but wen i ma doing da shading part and grouping, it shades outta the lines like as if i didnt group it. it say (undah layers) Group 1. then it goes down and "indents" the layer called "shades" then its a reg. layer of base colors and da backround, and da lineart is of course, on top of ot all. my problem is that wen its all grouped, likein ur pix, it still colors outside the lines... can u pls help me wit this?? thanks alot in advance <33 sorry 4 da long letter loll
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I'm not really sure what's happening, but one thing I think of is that the shading layer is not properly grouped. If you use Photoshop CS or later try Ctrl-Alt-G instead of Ctrl-G for creating clipping mask.
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woo... i'm going to try this, don't look way hard, but maybe it does
Thanks for posting it!
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Very helpful! I can not wait to try it.
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this tutorial is really something, thanks I learned a lot
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