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Published: 2006-01-11 13:48:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 728703; 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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this is really helpful ^_^ but how do u get your lineart on there???
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I don't understand the masking/grouping part. I just tried doing that and it doesn't remove the stuff outside the base color. What additional steps are there?
Otherwise, I love this tutorial, I shall try it out in more depth. I'm just trying different techniques listed in here before making a new art piece in entirety.
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If you have Photoshop CS or later, and Ctrl-G didn't work, use Ctrl-Alt-G instead. The name of funcution has been also changed as "Create clipping mask".
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I decided to elaborate on this part of the step for my friend in a tutorial.
[link]
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I have PS7, and Ctrl G did work, but the stuff outside the base does not go away. but I discovered the reason why--I was trying to group to the 'Background' layer. XD No wonder why. But man, this is really nifty! Never again will I have to painstainkly erase every single thing outside of lines.
thank you so much! I will happily show this link to many of my friends--they will love you for it.
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Thanks for the tutorial. I'm very bad at shading and I hope I'll learn a bit about it thanks to you
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wow...THANKS FOR THE TUTORIAL...
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Yay! Thank you for this tutorial. I learned a bunch of stuff I had always wondered about. 
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I know this was designed for an older version of PS, but it has shown me something I have spent months trying to figure out and almost gave up on. Thanks
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Hey! thank you very much your tutorial!
It helped me a lot!!!
This is what I did with your tutorial: [link]
Not as good as yours, but at least is something!!
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This is very useful. I have to use it 8D
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Thank you, and I hope it really helps.
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This is a great tutorial! Man... I need to seriously improve my drawings even more... Thanks for the coloring tips! This is SO going into my favs.
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You're welcome, and hope it helps.
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It is! Don't worry! ^.^ I'm currently coloring one of my pictures... but... it's a pain in the but to color and outline, because I don't have a tablet. Mouses suck.... TT.TT
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Perfect !
The best and most detailed i ever seen =O
Awesome work .
Thanks.
(:
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omg *o*
this is the greatest tutorial i ever saw *o*
i never found one, which showed the way of colouring i would prefer!
oh how can i thank you??
i always wanted to colour this way, but i didn't know how to do so!
thank you so much!
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I'm very glad that you like it so much, thank you.
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This tutorial was extremely helpful for me, it is well put together and very detailed in each step. The tutorial pictures were well chosen and allowed me to see what I should expect from each step. Thank you so much for putting this together
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Thank you for the compliment, and I hope it'll help you.
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Great tutorial! Really helped me!
Cheers
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Very organized. It's confusing to me because I'm still getting the hang of lighting effects. I really like it though.
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that is really helpful! I'm favin' it!
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Every time I make a new layer and put it under the lineart, the color wont show up on the picture. What do you think's wrong with it?
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The lineart is on a white-pixel-filled layer.
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-laughs- I only meant to skim through it and ended up reading the whole thing. Great job! It should help me a lot. >.<
Never seen such as informative tutorial on this.
Thanks!
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Glad to know that it was informative to you!
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Working on a pic right now that I combined your hair-colouring style and another persons.
Again, thanks for the tutorial!
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I know this'll help me. Thanks for writing this.
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This is my second comment xD
The whole tutorial is great, but I don't really understand the line softening portion. I can lock my transparency and everything, but how can I make the lines soft?
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