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< THIS is a TUTORIAL!

USES PHOTOSHOP CS3

I ASSUME YOU ARE NOT PHOTOSHOP ILLITERATE X3

I was cleaning up the Akemi photos as I usually do on 3D art pieces and figured "I have been meaning to do a tutorial for this..." so I did!

This technique holds true for cleaning up my pencils too.

Like for my Aburame sheets - those were from pencils! And not very clean ones. I take the pencils in Photoshop and knock up the contrast and darks, then knock out any junk left over with the dodge tool set low cause I don't wanna just use levels cause if I up the whites that much it ruins my midtones. XDD The dodge set low gets rid of lights while leaving the darks alone, it's faster / less needing to be precise as using the eraser.

And using the adjustment layer with the brightness turned way down lets you make sure you don't miss ANYTHING (if you monitor is brighter than most, cause I know I've looked at a cleaned up pic before I learned to use the brightness/contrast layer trick on a friends screen and am like WTH!? I MISSED JUNK!).

Description
< THIS is a TUTORIAL!

USES PHOTOSHOP CS3

I ASSUME YOU ARE NOT PHOTOSHOP ILLITERATE X3

I was cleaning up the Akemi photos as I usually do on 3D art pieces and figured "I have been meaning to do a tutorial for this..." so I did!

This technique holds true for cleaning up my pencils too.

Like for my Aburame sheets - those were from pencils! And not very clean ones. I take the pencils in Photoshop and knock up the contrast and darks, then knock out any junk left over with the dodge tool set low cause I don't wanna just use levels cause if I up the whites that much it ruins my midtones. XDD The dodge set low gets rid of lights while leaving the darks alone, it's faster / less needing to be precise as using the eraser.

And using the adjustment layer with the brightness turned way down lets you make sure you don't miss ANYTHING (if you monitor is brighter than most, cause I know I've looked at a cleaned up pic before I learned to use the brightness/contrast layer trick on a friends screen and am like WTH!? I MISSED JUNK!).