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Published: 2006-01-11 13:48:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 728597; 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 tutorial is fantastic.
I'm gonna work on these techniques.
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even if i read it and understand it very well... i guess i cant make this T___T its hard... T___T
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You. Are. Mean. You made me cry! About halfway trough and I finally got my face off the computer screen, I looked at the example picture and started to cry. You make me look bad... I can't do that for my life! But I guess I'll try.
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wow this is an amazing tut!! very complicated.. this will take a while to learn. great job!!
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Thanks so much for making this 
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That's truly amazing...do you speak Japanese? (considering the program was in Japanese) O.O
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This tutorial is amazing. Now only if I can make proper lineart in PS. XD
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btw, how do you do your lineart on photoshop, do you go around the whole thing with a brush?
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thanx a lot, i've drawn heaps of characters, but suck with colouring them in on photoshop, this helps a bunch, thankies
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Wow, very helpful! Thanks for sharing!
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ahhh!!!! thanks!!! this is amzing!!!
*fav*
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whoa! amazing! this is great, thank you!
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This is just what I was looking for!! I really needed some help with my coloring in Photoshop, and I love seeing things cel-shaded (I think part of it comes from loving Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker). This really gave me a lot of help and confidence that I can make some simple line-art turn into something fantastic.
I'm going to be using this on my dragon drawings actually. I prefer to draw my line-art traditionally (with a pencil), so would you recommend that I use a pen to ink it before I get it ready to color, or do you have any other suggestions? Thanks.
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brilliant.. thanks very much! some excellent tips and explanations of the tools there
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Thank you muchly for submitting this tutorial.
It really helped me improve my shading. ^_^
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thanks for being so dang Majestic-- //not epic, majestic is better >U>//-- and puting this tutorial up here! I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO USE PH CB see? kinda,..--->[link]
i didn't know about the clipping mask thing till just now Dx that would have helped alot
I'm pretty positive that you've heard this often enough now, but still : this really is a great tutorial and it helped me out quite a lot with my digital shading
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if two people are in a picture, would you make 2 Base color layers?
one for each person? =3
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Yes, but these two base layers could be integrated into one layer, depending on your situation, to save memory space.
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wow this one is awesome too! I'm gonna use it now
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Thanks for this! I'm thinking about experimenting with this style of shading once I get the lineart done on my current image, so this will be helpful.
*collects and stalks your account to see if there are background tips*
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ilu 4ever for explaining how to pick colors
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Thank you thank you thank you so much for this tutorial!!!! I'm a terrible dummy when it comes to technological stuff (i didn't know how to use a computer until i was 17 
Thank you so much!!!!
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i dont know if i call it great see i am a slow learner and such and such so finding tutorials are really hard for me and i have no idea why i am saying i guess i need some one to like be there i guess if you havent seen my work its flat
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This is wonderful! Thank you very much for sharing this with us!
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Very informative. I especially liked the part on how to change the line color. Thanks for making this!
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hi..this really helps..tnx for the tut..btw..do you have a tablet
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It's great to have talented people take the time to enlighten others. Thank you.
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Thanks for this. I'm sure it will be very helpful to me since I'm a total beginner at drawing and shading. XD
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I have seen a lot of tutorials but honestly this is the best one I have ever seen! Thank you so much for making it!. I'm so illiterate with this stuff and I totally get it with this
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can you make a tutorial on a river with rocks and such. btw this is awesomly helpful x3
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Thank You so much this helps a lot!!!
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Awesome tutorial, for anyone who doesnt know, the "grouping" shes talking about is known as "Create Clipping Mask" on the new PS versions
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Great tut. I added it to my new group Tutorial Heaven. I also do tutorials there.
I do something similar. I make a copy of the base colors layer, then lock transparency on that layer. I can then shade and highlight without worrying about going outside the lines. I find that method to be faster. If I mess up, I can erase and the colors are preserved in the copy below it.
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i will be definitely be studying this :LOOKS CLOSER: and now i am off to see the other tutorial you made about eyes!
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This is sooo cool!
How long does it normally take per picture?
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This helped me learn quite a lot! 
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