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YAY! finally finished!!! Press DOWNLOAD IMAGE at the right to see the tutorial
This is the first tutorial of a huge list I'll be writing for my website. I hope you'll like them.
Took me 4 days to write
favs, comments and suggestione are appreciated... ........................
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Actually, what you can do is work on RGB, then when you're done, make a copy and switch to CMYK. Open them side by side, [yea, the colors will be crazy] then adjust the CMYK with curves and you'll see it gets pretty close to RGB and it prints right. ^__^
ps. Love your gallery!
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What I mean is, clients normally have a colour guide you HAVE to follow. Even if you get the colours spot on in rgb, they will still change when you change to cmyk.
99% of my work has been for kids books atc, and I've always worked in cmyk because of this.
Even if you do use the right colours, when you use airbrushing in a pic for eg. You can lose some colours in the grad, adn will become a kind of pixelated looking grad too. Mainly with darks.
The way I've always worked is, cmyk for print, rgb for digital. Can't go wrong that way
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I see what you mean. Spot coloring and all that. It would save time in client based work [at least very strict and demanding and controlling clients lol] I think when it comes to personal work and non strict clients I think it's easier.
Concerning the pixelation in the gradients, [which does happen, you're absolutely right on that] as long as you work 300dpi or higher it's literally undetectable by the human eye once it prints, so it's not a big deal.
Truth is, if I had clients like yours, I'd do the same as you. ^__^
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Thank you soooooo mcuh for all the time and effort you put into this, it's really helped me and I really appreciate it!
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Gratz on DD.
This should really be helpful to me hey started on digital painting.
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This will help a lot and save precious time. Thanks a lot!
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Brilliant, been wondering why my photoshop was being so slow! This will definetly help me out a great deal! Thanks for giving the rest of us a hand, I've been using photoshop for years by learning on it myself but I'm still learning how everything works! XD
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I'm taking a class about this, this helps a lot thank you
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I'll be using this once I get a tablet. Thank you!
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When I try to turn on pixel doubling there is no display & cursor it is only cursor and it don't give me an option to turn it on... I am using cs4. Any ideas?
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people this is wat im talkn about...SHORT SIMPLE WELL-WRITTEN
good work..
thanks a billion
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Amazing and effective tutorial. It makes it simple and effective how to optimize PS. Thanks a ton for sharing!
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This is so awesome, that I just had to fav it!
Bye-bye brush lag!
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Just ran through this with CS4 and I'm already very happy with the results. Thanks much!
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Nice tut, I do most of that already, the pixel doubling is a new one on me though, ill be trying it for sure, Cheers
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Anything for photoshop to load quicker is a good thing!!! Now people think I have some kind of super-computer. Bwahahaha
Thanks for making the effort to create this guide and share it.
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it is helpful indeed
i will make sure to refer back to this very often
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Great tips...a lot of them I knew, but I never thought about deleting all the presets I never use like those various gradient options and styles.
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Wow! Thanks so much! This was really helpful!
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ok
I do have a question (since I'm a ps noob ;__
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It depends. If you make it on 5000x5000 on 72dpi... and then you change it to 5000x5000 on 300dpi, it will be sharp. If you change the pixels, then not
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cool *___*
so only changing the px makes the picture blurry xO
and not the dpi resolution <3
g8! this is gonna help my laptop a lot to survive while I'm drawing xD buahahah
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which photoshop
are u talking about cuz I have
photoshop cs4
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It works with all Photoshop versions I think. Most things though?
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Umm... it's a good tutorial, I got all the useless stuff off but... when I close photoshop and open it again, everythings back to normal again... do I need to save the changes somehow?
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You have to click 'ok' 
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Apparently it doesn't let me delete everything, I just need to leave at least 1 in everything
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Awesome. My coputer dies alittle everytime I open photoshop so this hould be usefull
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thanks for tips but iam using the toolbox always
i think its a good way to define some tool and use them everytime ^^ you are able to save the way to your brushtools. but i think this is slight.
thanks for this tutorial
+fav +collect
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huggles! thank you SOOOOOOOOOO much! i actually avoided using PS because of such slow load time!
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thankyou for such helpfull insights
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I should have notice this earlier! x_x it's too slow for me to practice some background with mouse and thank you got such a wonderful tutorial! 
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