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Lhuin β Tutorial - Blending a Character into the BG
Published: 2012-12-07 23:15:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 86309; Favourites: 5320; Downloads: 790
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BIG FILE!I originally wanted to make a video of this but never did so thought I could make it a tutorial like this.
Something I've been asked about earlier and thought I'd share it
I always enjoy doing this part in my pictures!Not much to say about it though here, but let me know if you have any questions or if anything's unclear. Wrote the texts pretty quickly so it might have some typos but hopefully not haha!
It works at least in photoshop, but it should work in any other programs that have a Gaussian Blur... thing or something similar at least.
Hope you like it!!
characters used in this are (c) to their owners!
edit: added some little things!
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Comments: 116
This is the best, most helpful tutorial I have ever read. Thankyou so much, you have no idea what a difference this makes to me <3 I've often wondered how some artists make that "soft" look and now I finally understand how to do it, thanks to you!
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So it's NOT magic.... XD Thank you for making this tutorial!
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Em, forgive me, but how do you lock the layer? Is it just selecting the layer or do you have to do something else
Thank you!
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[link] it's the left one in the picture, the one that looks like a chessboard
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This might be one of the most useful tutorials I have ever seen. Thanks <3
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Thank you so much for posting this!!
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KΓ€tevΓ€! 
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Joo 
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Thank you very much for this. I've just recently started to try to blend a character more into the background because they always felt so detached. :3 This will be helpful!
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Yey! Hope you found it helpful ^_^
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oh that is SO helpful thank you SO MUCH!
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kiitos tΓ€stΓ€! On muuten aika paljon apua ja taas uutta tietoa viisaampi 
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eipÀ mitÀÀn, hyvÀ jos hyâdyksi!
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Thank you so much for this. 
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What paint soft ware do you use?
I'm just starting on Sumo Paint and Pixlr..
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She uses Photoshop
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That's great! I always coloured the lineart and then I added some layers to make the character "fit" with the background but I like this blury thing ^^ thanks for the tutorial~
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Very helpful! I never thought of doing something like this to make the character blend in more. Thanks for the tutorial!
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Man this is the stuff that should seems obvious but I never catch it until it's broken down like this. Thank you for this tutorial!
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I have to say this is really helpful
I'm glad you made a tutorial about that
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very well done, this will help me for sure!
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Very helpful! I've always wondered how this effect was made 8) It's simple but certainly makes a huge difference! Thanks for the tutorial!
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This is great! Which photoshop is it, if you don't mind me askin?
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I use PS CS3 Extended, haven't moved away from that one as it's got some stuff the new ones don't XD but this should work in all of them anyway! ^_^
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would you please tell me what things the new photoshop versions lack compared to CS3? another person told me that and i kept wondering what it was...
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Well I generally like the interface more anyway but the main thing I miss in the new versions is this... thing when you press the F key and it changes the 'screen mode' so that you can move the canvas around like in Sai.
Here's what I mean: [link]
I use it to be able to draw stuff better that's around the end of the canvas. It's just something I'm way too used to so I couldn't really work in the new photoshops because of that XD
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ohh i see now. its the first thing i liked about SAI, it really makes drawing easier in awkward places as you said.
thanks for replying!
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I have always wondered how to do this, thank you. ^^
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Thanks a lot for this! I'll try this out in GIMP, it should work ....
Anyway, great tutorial!
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If it's got some thing where you can control the volume of the blurring effect it should work yeh!
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The difference is shocking! Who knew such a simple thing could make such a difference. I'm sure this will come in handy for a lot of people.
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I never really thought about 'blending' a character into the background to make it look like it's actually there. Really helpful, thanks for sharing. Will you make more tutorials?
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Yeh I will! If I come up with some nice themes for them, I don't want to make tutorial that are out there already lots of times but something small and useful like this most likely
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A very nice tutorial, thank you very much ~ c:
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Awesome tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to make this for us
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great tutorial! I was wondering how you did that...
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Did I miss a step or how did you color the lineart again?
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