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Published: 2006-12-02 13:21:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 41873; Favourites: 696; Downloads: 1304
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Finally tutorial came, after I've promised a few month ago. Indeed I intend to pose this tutorial last week for 50,000 pageviews thank you, but I'm very busy so I pose it this week instead.This is my first tutorial, there could be something wrong I have to apologise in this place. Sorry for my broken English also.
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so there is no way to make outlines faster!
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Dear timelord this helped tremendously! I just cut my time outlining in half! I love you thank you for making this!
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thanks for the tutorial... gonna learning illustrator this next month
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omg oulines with illustrator?
omg
i really prever sai for outlining althought this is boring enough^^
nice done o.o
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Been looking for some ideas in relation to illustrator comics. Looking good.
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Thank You! I'll remember this Max-Windy sensei!
XD
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Excellent tutorial. I gotta use this for any of my future projects. Mostly because I suck at using a tablet, and also I'm a little more proficient in Illustrator initially.
For a start, a good thing to work on, and improve as well, is the Excalibur airship I have in my gallery. Using this method, I can make a higher-res pic with more detail. And not have to guess every time I color in.
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You have an interesting method. I can see how you do your artwork now, however, the title is misleading. In this tutorial you not only do the outlines, but you create the colour shapes along the way.
In looking at your tutorial here and the instructions you've written, it appears that you've somehow created a shape-within-another-shape so you can tweak the anchor points of the inside or outside shape to adjust the outline. Interesting, but doesn't that mean you need to use the Direct Selection tool to select and colour the inside area?
I'll see if I can try this out myself. I was wondering if you can also have a look at the way I do my outlines and colouring [link] Well... colouring at least. For outlines I simply apply quick brush strokes and expand those, and then tweak... I have a separate layer for outlines and colour, and yes, that means I need to edit two areas instead of one when making adjustments in the end, but I find it much quicker to do it this way, and much easier to change my colours.
Likewise, comments much appreciated ^_^
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wow this guide is seems real helpful
thank you for sharing
hope this will help me ^^
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bit complicated but it seems the results look good...
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I need help, I get up to the part in the begining where you say, to hide the selection, but everytime i do that, i lose the sketch underneath it so I cant do the face...
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this tutorial is amazing. now i can bring back my drawings and hope to put them online also lol.
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I need help T___T
after path -->outline stroke
I am not allow to release in the compound path *cry* why??
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but...is it possible to make so soft outline in Photoshop CS2 or high ?
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You can make that but i thing it to hard way.
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sorry for 3 the same posts xD ups
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but .... is it possible to make so dynamic [or something like that] outline only in Photoshop cs2 or CS3 ??
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but .... is it possible to make so dynamic [or something like that] outline only in Photoshop cs2 or CS3 ??
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Excuse me. This would sound stupid. But I can't find the "Object" thing you mentioned there *-* Couldn't follow your tut because of this very simple thing >_<
Care to tell a PS newbie where "Object" is? ^_^;
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i think it's because your using photoshop .. thoses function are in illustrator only ..
it's an illustrator tutorial
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Ahh dammit... I though they're alike simce most of the functions are alike. Sorry for being a noob xP
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Unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of people getting other people onto vectors through Photoshop. Sorry guys, but if you want to work with vectors, Illustrator was specifically designed for that job.
And don't tell me "But Photoshop CAN do true vectors blah blah blah" Yes it can. You can also type in Photoshop but you sure wouldn't want to use it for word processing would you?
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Lol.. Thanks for replying the question from a year ago
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'oly crap. I didn't realise this was ages old ;o; LOL!
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the step 4 is quite what make the difference...nice one.....
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did you make a new layer for the main black outlines?
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awesome! i will use that! (once i get photoshop... >.<
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will it work if we outline our sketch? ._.
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I'm having a lot of trouble warping paths into nice looking shapes sadly. =/
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I'm so confused... I guess it's the first time I've used it... can you help me? I can't figure out how to use the path tool...
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First, you have to click on pen tool (path tool) to use path. If you just only click it from one point to another point, you'll get a straight line. If you drag another point, you'll get a curve. To make a closed picture, you have to click at started point again.
For beginner, you should try to draw a circle several times to practice.
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Nice tutorial!
I think iยดll try it... I didnยดt knew this program exists... รต.O
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this tutoral will help me A LOT! it's very well said!
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Oh !!!!! This tutorial help me so much, i thank you so much, thaks , thanks a lot. Thanks again.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm going to try this when I get the chance.
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kool technique im definitely gonna try this out, thanx!
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hmm... thats a lot of work... impressive... I'f I wanted clean lines I always just used the line tool in photo then to wheght the lines I just faded them... wow... I'll have to give this method a shot
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That's amazing, I didn't realise you could do that in Illustrator. Might have another look at it...
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