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Line Hold video tutorial
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Published: 2008-08-28 15:58:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 35224; Favourites: 833; Downloads: 1936
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Apologies for my voice, which is far more annoying than I realized. Also, sorry for my retarded rambling. I'm no good on the spot and I didn't reherse this.Related content
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Great tut! but what if you have characters against a lot of big black areas? Do you have to somehow undercolor under all of those? Like, in the other tut you've got, the 10 min color tut, you can see the panel before this one with the figs on a black background. Do you lay in a dark color under all of that? If you didn't, to adjust the levels to make the bkgrnd black would darken everything else way too much. What am I missing?
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When converting from RGB to CMYK in Photoshop, it uses a rich black, not just 100k, so it ends up looking fine.
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THat's awesome!! Thanks. Are you using a MAC? I like how the windows pop up!!
Of course, I'm going to have to watch this fifty times to really understand it because I'm pretty effin' dense....LOL.
Thanks again bro!
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Thanks! Nope, I'm on a PC. I'm just very used to using keyboard commands and didn't mention what I was doing on the keyboard.
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Right on. I just loved them windows popping up!! I'm a simple man...LOL.
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What program are you using to record your tutorials? if you dont mind me asking
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Great stuff John, thanks for posting this. Highly informative and very helpful.
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Thanks! I'm just glad people find it useful.
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oh i have a dream!, for you to one day color some of my stuff^^, thanks for this vid man, not everybody likes to share their knowledge, thats very cool of you, thanks again!
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Thank you! I'm just glad I could be a help to someone.
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Why is it necessary to have your line art in a channel?
What is the major advantages/disadvantages in doing that over just keeping your top layer in your layer's palette as pure black line art on a transparent background?
I've always worked this way, and avoided channels, and never knew the reason why it seems like everyone else puts it in a channel. It seems like the same thing, only you aren't tempted to fiddle with it because it is not in your layer palette.
Maybe I am missing something big.
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It's a carry over from the days when we had much less RAM. Keeping it in a channel allowed you to work faster as layers are technically made up of 3 channels and use more system resources. As long as it's solid black, it doesn't hurt anything in a channel, but if your system can handle it, layers are fine too. I do that now and then.
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thanks much, I really appreciate the recent tutorials, btw. Watched each a couple of times.
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Thanks for watching them!
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Your voice isn't annoying to me. You also rambled far less than was advertised, I think. The only thing that's really getting to me here is how much better your method is than what I've been doing!! >.< But that's obviously not your fault, lol. Thanks very much for posting this man. It's going to help a lot!
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I'm in awe, you make it look easy though it's not, at least in my case. I wish I knew how to use channels...
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Channels are super, super easy. You could learn everything you need to know about them in a matter of minutes.
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Woah that kinda sounds a bit complicated for me. I really have to learn to use channels as well. Thanks a lot for the cool video.
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Huh.. that is neat. Thanks for sharing.
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Very informative indeed - and a variation of doing them that I'd not seen before, so extra thanks for sharing it with us mortals
Is this the start of a series?
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If I can remember to do it, it will be!
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Huzzahs!
If I think of anything specific, I'll try and remember to pass it along, how's that?
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Thank you so much for taking the time to do these videos and sharing your process. I've learned a lot from them so far and I'd be thrilled if this became a regular feature. And to be honest you could sound like Porky Pig and I wouldn't care as long as the content you'r eshowing is still there.
Seriously man, it's people like you who are kind enough to show how you do what you do, that allows people like me to grow and become a better artist.
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I really appreciate you saying that! Once I shake this cold, hopefully my voice will sound a little better too, so you won't have to listen to Porky Pig.
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Awsome tut. It's really cool to see how you came up with that way for line holds. Ive never seen it done that way before.
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Thanks! It just kind of occured to me one day while I was messing around, which I often do.
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That's definitely a method I didn't think of before. Great job, John!
Thanks!
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Not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but at about the 1:35 mark, you said to delete the line layer, but you actually made a copy. Minor nitpick, but just in case anyone was JUST listening to it without watching it or didn't catch it the first time around, I figured I'd point it out.
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I caught that myself, but didn't want to do the whole thing over.
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I think most people think their voice sounds retarded, but we're not used to hearing our own voices either
Interesting method, great vid!
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I love these tutorials your creating-I'm learning a lot! Guess this won't really work on greyscale art huh? Thanks for making this!
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No, not really, but I have a different process I use sometimes with greyscale art to give it a little tint, since it's already gradated nicely by value.
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can't wait to see that tutorial
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ha! I'm pretty sure the way I do it is extremely back woods! 
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Sure thing! I take a very simplistic approach to all this, but it's worked out well for me so far, I think. If you're on one of the messenger services, we'll have to chat some time.
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ha, haven't used IM in years! used ichat a looong time ago. That would be great tho, good to hear it is a simplistic approach, I get confused easily
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Oh please. Stop being so modest. Your work is fantastic and I'm betting your current processes are just fine.
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