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Hey, all. I recently upgraded from Paint Shop Pro 7 (which is over a decade old
) to Photoshop CS5. Thus, I was *very* uncomfortable coloring this. Still learning all the new shortcuts and everything. Hopefully, I'll be a quick study and get comfortable with the program soon. Hope you like it! 
Note: If you know any cool Photoshop coloring tutorials, please link them here. They would sure be helpful (especially about using the lasso and pen tool. Softening edges too. 'Def need to get better at that. >_< Thanks, y'all! )Pencil
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Hey Michael, great to see you on Deviant! Nice work, my friend.
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DUDE! I passed by your table at Anaheim Comic Con a few times and I never caught you there. Was just gonna say hi, but it's all good. Hope you're doing well, mate. I've been freakin' busy! >_<
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Hey Michael, sorry I missed you. I was at my table most of the time, but stepped out now and then. I'll be at the LA wizard world con, let me know if you're going. Good to hear you're keeping busy, your work looks great- keep it up!
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Thanks! I haven't drawn too much lately. ( I gotta remedy that soon >_< ) You'll be at LA Wizard Con? Hmmm... Maybe I'll see ya there. Right now I plan to go to (not as an artist, but as Press) SDCC and Long Beach Comic Con. I'll decide on the other cons as I get closer to them. ^_^ Again, great to talk to you and I'll keep in touch. Cheers!
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Thankies! Glad ya like it!
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Looking great Hun! I really love teh pencil outline with photoshop colors. It's unique and cool. :3
I have this website saved. It's a lot to go through but should have what you want. All organized into separate folders!~ [link]
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Thanks very much! 
Wow! That site is amazing! I think I'll be chilling there for quite some time. Thanks so much for the link!
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I'm glad you found the link useful! I've had it saved for a long time but uhhh... I don't have photoshop nor a working tablet atm... sooo yeah! Glad you can use it XD
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Thanks, mate! Hope to do more soon!
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In regards to Photoshop coloring, I can help you learn whatever you want to know about...I'm pretty good with the software.
As for tutorials, good ones are everywhere, especially here on dA if you just search. I'm well past my Photoshop beginner days that I couldn't recommend any tutorials now...most of the sites I learned from are either offline or dramatically different.
As for the art, it's great. You're the master of drawing the cuties, that's for sure. The colors are flat but they're neat and effective. What you might try is scanning one of your drawings, shaded the way you normally do it with Copics or however, then adding flat colors on a layer above set to "Multiply". The concept of coloring and shading is the same traditionally or digitally; the difference is only the methods involved.
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Thanks, mate! I just may take you up on that offer.
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No problem. 
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Sexy, cute and... hottie, all what I'm looking in a girl... amazing pic man... really amazing
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Thanks so much! Yeah, although I've been coloring for a while I feel like a n00b with Photoshop. That's okay. Learned a lot yesterday and still rockin' and rollin'.
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Looks good from what I saw. I do have a question about the more recent versions of Photoshop, though.
One reason I switched over to Paint Shop Pro was that it more closely resembled the interface from the old Corel PhotoPaint program (which was easy to use). I tried Photoshop back in those days (late 1990s) and found it a bit difficult. Have they done anything to improve that?
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I've disliked the Photoshop UI for a long time. Preferred Paint Shop Pro by far. However, I recently upgraded my computer and my version of Paint Shop Pro wouldn't even run on Windows 7! (Oh noes! >_< ) Thus, I was forced to upgrade and join the others in the 21st century. Honestly, it's not as bad as I thought. While VERY different (none of the keyboard shortcuts I know carry over) the concepts (the stuff I know how to do) *do* carry over. It's just a matter of figuring out how to do all the things I did in Paint Shop Pro...in this new program.
My big things were scroll to zoom (which they have now; I hate that 'Ctrl +' and 'Ctrl -' (to zoom in and out) stuff) and a few other things. It's a totally different User Interface, but it's one I'll have to learn now. I do feel it's less intuitive, but hopefully I'll get comfortable with it soon.
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I've gone as far as Paint Shop Pro 9, but I still have an old XP machine that I do most of my work on. It's barely compatible with the newer laptop that I brought (at a time when I thought I was going to be starting a new career which required one), but it forces the system to reset itself to a "basic" setting whenever I run it. PSP10 and later versions may be compatible, but I've hardly had the funds to upgrade while I'm still unemployed.
If I do start a new job soon, I may be considering upgrading so that I can switch back and forth to the laptop when I need to. Later on, I also plan to upgrade the main PC, and Win7 may be the only thing available by then.
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dude this is awesome!? how long did it took you to do it?
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Thanks! It did't take that long to do. Stumbled a bit since I'm learning a new program. Went pretty smoothly overall, though.
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nice.
man for me it took one of my pictures 3 weeks to do.
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Congrats on the upgrade. It shouldn't be too hard to pick up on how to use the Pen and Lasso properly even without a tutorial, just by playing around with what shift-/ctrl-/alt-clicking do, how Paths work, and the different variants of each tool (although I almost never use the magnetic lasso tool, and I can't remember ever using for the Pen anything but the regular one and the Convert Point Tool). You might want to add the Paths window to your workspace, though.
(And nice work on the pic too, obv. That anime experimentation's definitely influenced your style a bit. Now please excuse me while I gorge on Portal 2.)
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Thanks kindly! Yeah, I'm gonna be doing some experimenting soon. Indeed, I plan to be playing Portal 2 soon myself!
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Very nice and "Bootylicious"!
And congrats on finally upgrading to photoshop, and CS5 at that ( I still only have CS3 though. )
BTW, here are some really good online and hard copy Photoshop Tutorials that I think will help you with your work:
Online:
How to Create an Anime Artwork in Photoshop
[link]
Reiq Line-art Tutorial
[link]
Reiq's digital coloring tutorial
[link]
How to Cel-Style color in Adobe Photoshop 7 by Tiffa Lei (KAGE Productions)
[link]
Books:
DC guide to coloring and Lettering Comics
[link]
Digital Manga Workshop: An Artist's Guide to Creating Manga Illustrations on Your Computer
[link]
Hope this info helps!
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So much good stuff here. Thanks again!
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Thanks so much! I'll definitely be checking those links out!
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YES! A THOUSAND TIMES YES!
<3
and for what it's worth, I hate the pen tools in photoshop. I use a piece of software called Adobe Streamline, but I just recently found out it doesn't work with Windows 7. 
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Thank you! ^_^ Yeah...the pen tool doesn't seem to be loved by too many people. I'm trying to up my knowledge a bot. Tryin' to get better and all that.
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As for pen tool tutorials, there's quite a few out which babble a lot, explain you multitudes of stuff and make you read through a shitload of explanations. I personally prefer this one , which - while seeming to bore you to death while you do it - has the nice effect of making you redo the actions you will need more often, well... more often. And vice versa. You should check it out, it's a tutorial I recommend a lot.
To do the one justice I learned from, you could also check out this , which does have a few, but not too complementary explanations. Basically, read through this one, work through the first, and you should be able to handle the pen in no-time!
That being said, I think it's interesting how you kept a lot of aspects to your style exactly the same, even though you were switching to another platform. I like how the signature looks totally pityful in this one, though... XD And it's actually the first time I noticed that your shadows don't really seem to have too much consistency between your artworks... any intention behind that?
Either way, keep up the great work... and have fun with your new toy
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