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Klayde β Masking Tutorial for Photoshop
Published: 2009-12-14 03:03:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 18486; Favourites: 515; Downloads: 672
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Masking Tutorial for beginners. I figured I show thisAs mentioned on the tutorial, feel free to ask anything if you're confused or I need to make something more clear.
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Khira belongs to me. c:
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Its working! 
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Very helpful indeed, the one thing I wanted to know and bam, there it is lol, thank you so much dearΒ
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The thinner the lines the lower the number must be in the contact by pixels box and vice versa?
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Hi, I tried using this tutorial, however as soon as I go to save my image as a bitmap or jpg or something the masked stuff disappears. how do I stop this from happening?
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Save it as PSD, the alpha channel only works on PNG, or anything that can handle transparencies. JPG or Bitmap will flatten the image and will give you the default white/black background.
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you're very welcome BRO!
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what happened to her in step five? she has a bunch of choppy blocks f grey all over her?...is that supposed to happen?
I'm completely new to photoshop and am having hell with it because the pen won't work randomly and i don't know where to buy another one. not to menton i can't draw worth crud with a mouse.
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Anime Ace, you can get it for free in dafont.com
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Hello?
Please tell me the exact function of mask.
In Step 5, you are coloring grey into the selection, and none of it appears on the final?
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The exact function of a mask is to hide everything but the selected area. In this tutorial, the artist has applied the mask to the area surrounding his character. So, basically, everything but the character is covered, so none of the paint that goes outside the lines shows up. He's also painted white in step 5 to illustrate this effect and to show where the colors go. You can paint it whatever colors you want in that layer, or (if you're lazy like me) you can make separate masks for the hair, skin, eyes, and whatever else so painting it requires minimal effort.
Hope that helps. :3
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Uhm, the exact function of the meaning you can google it because I do not have that explination. In layman's terms, it's just a simple hide/show method. In step 5, I'm coloring with white, not gray. As you can see from step 1... my background was always gray.
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In Spanish nop O.o? U.u
Thank you ciao.
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No spanish version, sorry. :c USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE :<
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thank you so much for the fantastic tutorial. It really came in handy!
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You're very welcome, I'm glad I could be helpful.
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I followed this down to the last detail and I'm still having trouble... When I go to start colouring it, it still goes outside of the lines and it also won't let me colour with the colours I choose on the layer with the mask. (The mask is also on the same layer as the outline.)
I have PS cs4, if that helps anything.
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Okay, is it possible for you to take a screenshot of your photoshop layer window? if so I can tell what the problem is.
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Yeah sure. Here. Down in the bottom right corner.
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Big pic is big.
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Okay there is your issue.
Notice that in my tutorial I have the alpha channel on a folder below the outline layer. Right now the only way you can paint behind it is on that layer itself.
All you have to do is create a folder. Click and Drag the alpha layer to the folder, and click and drag the folder below your outline. Then create layers within that folder and color away, that should do the trick. c:
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To be honest, I just got PS... I have no idea how to add an Alpha channel. |D;
I'm a total noob at this. > <;
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lol the alpha channel is the black and white layer I made~ the one that you made two thats within your outline 
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I just don't know how to make it have an alpha channel. I know how to do that in GIMP but not PS.
Here it is as a JPEG though.
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[link] See this is how it should look.
And here is the PSD. Look at the order that I have the layers in.
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I hope this helps, I mean the tutorial is self explanitory, I have it circle the button you have to click to make it an alpha. Maybe the PSD will help.
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Thanks for your help <3 :3
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You're very welcome, I hope it helped.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask~
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thanks so much for this! hopefully i can make it work for me
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You're very welcome! any questions let me know c:
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Hey really good technique Klayde. I have been looking for a way to easily select parts or entire linearts, so i can concentrate on my painting.
You have helped me HOOOOOOOOOGELY.
Great stuff.
Love a Lot, Trust a Few, But Always Paddle Your Own Canoe.
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Np, glad you found it helpful c:
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No problem! glad you find it useful c:
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No prob, glad it helped c:
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