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Pen Tool Video TutorialHair Coloring Tutorial
If you have any questions, leave a comment and I'll do my best to answer! :3 (And if you use my tutorial, I would be very happy if you could send me a link to your work so I can praise you!) XD
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Adobe Photoshop CS III
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I love the tutorial <3 but im still having trouble trying to trace the picture due to I don't know how to make the picture a lighter color to make it easier to trace *points to the girl picture* how do you do that in ps7?
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By trace, I hope you mean that you're trying to trace over a sketch you drew yourself. ;3
Anyways, this is a quick fix! Insert a blank layer between your sketch and the layer you intend to do your lineart on. Fill it with white, and then use the slider at the top of the layer menu to adjust the opacity. Set it to around 50%, and you should now be able to see your sketch and your lineart. :3
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ty sooo much <3 i give you hearts <3 <3 <3 <3
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Thank you!!!!Thank you so much x3 This was really helpful (:
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Glad to have helped you!
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this is awesome, thanks so much! it helped a lot!
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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WOW. This has got to be the best tutorial for the pen tool ever.
was searching for a tutorial, but most of them were really hard to understand or in spanish or something ;_;
will start practicing it in my spare time 
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Aww! Thank you! I'm glad I could help out! β₯
I really like your style! It's very organic. :3 My art may look super neat, but it's also stiff because I forget to include natural brushstrokes as well. ;3
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Thanks a lot for your extremely detailed explanation.I really suck at Photoshop and this has brought an end to my difficulties.I was drawing the outer lines with the mouse and plain brush tool!!Thanxxxxxx!!
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Aww! I'm glad I could help you! If you have any questions, just ask!
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No,it was EXTREMELY detailed!
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Thanks a lot for your extremely detailed explanation.I really suck at Photoshop and this has brought an end to my difficulties.I was drawing the outer lines with the mouse and plain brush tool!!Thanxxxxxx!!
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YES!! THIS IS PERFECT THANK YOU SO MUCH~!~!~!
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You're welcome! Thanks for looking!
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Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial!! 
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Awesome! I'm glad I could help you!
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This was very informative! Thank you so much
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You're welcome! Thanks for looking!
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thank you very much your tutorial helped me a lot!!!!!!
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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do you have coloring tutorials too?
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Not at the moment, but I'm considering making one! What in particular would you like to see?
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yeah you should make one. it would be a great help...
i would like to know how to merge two colours together and do you do your coloring.
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Ummm, how do I get the Brush Pilate in CS5?
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Copied and pasted from the little FAQ in the description! ;3
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You can get there three different ways:
1. With the brush tool selected, if you move to the right along the bar that has the brush size, opacity, and flow, you'll come to a button called 'workspace.' You actually want to click the button next to it. It looks like a square with three little lines and three little bullet points. Simple click on it, and the brush pallet opens up. :3
2. On the Photoshop navigation bar, go to Window > Brushes. The pallet pops up after this.
3. Hit the F5 key.
Please not that if you don't have a tablet, you won't be able to tamped with the pen pressure settings. :3
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Let me know if you're still having issues! >w<
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I love the way you've explained this. It's all so clear! This will really help me, I don't use the Pen tool but now I'm considering it!
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Awesome! I'm glad that I was able to help you out. >w<
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Thanks a bunch for this I used to use my tablet which was fun but they go so fast after hard use
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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This is really clear, I've tried to use the pen tool before but gave up after it backfiring, thank you so much. I can now use the tool! 
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Wonderful! I'm glad to hear that I was able to help. Let me know if you have any questions!
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Wow thank's so much for this fantastic tutorial
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You're welcome! Thanks for looking!
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Thanks I've been trying/not, mostly not due to frustrations in the past to learn the pen tool for literally eons. This was simple and clear...I'm so excited to be able to make the lines I've long for (even though I don't do line art)
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Okay I've got everything... except I can't get it to say "Stroke Path" :/ I didn't see it in your faq. So far this is the only tutorial that sounds quick and easy and I really wanna do it cept I can't get it to >.< Would you know why?
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If you can't get Photoshop to bring up the Stroke Path Option, then more than likely, you've either got the current layer locked, or you've adjusted your settings for other tools (ex: the Brush) without remembering to reselect the Pen Tool. (The paths will be present even if you've technically got the Brush selected.)
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I dl'd PS 5.5 recently when it came out, for the free 30 day trial, and in it, it's 'stroke subpath'
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If only the "stroke subpath" option occurs when you try to stroke, it means that you have two paths on one path layer. If you want each stroke to be separated from the next, presumably for the purpose of restroking in the future, you need to put each new line on a separate path layer. (Note that I mean the layers in the Paths menu, not the default Layers menu that you can actually draw on.)
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Love it, very informative ^^
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