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Published: 2011-01-14 08:45:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 1695; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 35
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I was explaining to someone how I blend textures into my colouring, so thought I'd post an annotated screen cap.The texture used here is a desaturated photo of short grass.
The figure colour is on a separate layer from the background, with the texture layer positioned above it.
This makes it easy to select the figure colour area, simply by CTRL clicking in the figure colour layer in the layers palette, which selects all the pixels in that layer, then sending that area of the texture layer to a new layer.
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Sweet this will save a heap on time on PS colouring
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ahh now this is handy, visual example of what you described to me too back in 2008. I'm always fascinated to see other peoples techniques and styles to their work process 
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Do you do this for Backgrounds too? Or just characters? And if so which textures do you use for backgrounds? Say like for comic strips and such.
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Yep, some backgrounds too - walls, tree bark etc. I generally use either photographs of real textures (preferably fairly random, such as lichen covered stone) or custom textures specifically created in Photoshop. I created a load of different ones when colouring The Tempest for Classical Comics which I still use.
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Alrighty!, Ill go be finding some textures and get to use them on my colourings!. Ill be editing some of my newer pics and post them back up with edits with textures!
Thanks Nigel ol' Buddy!
~Zak!
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This is great, I was actually trying to get something like this effect with my photography coursework recently and simple opacity changes weren't having the effect I was after. Thank you for pointing that option out.
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Textures are harder to use than many people think. Use them hap-hazardly and they look cheap, use them in a more delicate manner and they can heighten desired elements in a piece. Nice little tutorial here. May give it a try in the future.
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That's actually kinda cool~ I've never been a texture person myself, but I would like to give this a go int he near future (on a project that doesn't require constant colouring consistency that I haven't already started) Awesome stuff!
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Niiiiice! I ought to try something like that with Photoshop (hardly use blending layers like that). Thank you for making this! ^^
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