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Published: 2010-04-07 22:50:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 188159; Favourites: 9443; Downloads: 6368
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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 this, thank you so much. 
The video is awesome, too. This I am adding to my faves~ <3
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Awesome! Glad you found my tutorials helpful.
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Very helpful! I never even new about the other points. D: This will make things so much easier. Thank you again! ^_^
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omg. this tutorial is SO helpful. thank you so much!!
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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thank thank thank you this was very concrete and helpfulp
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Awesome! Thanks for checking it out.
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Thank you, this helps me a lot!
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Great! I'm glad it helped!
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Another thing, I have Photoshop, can I make my lines not get all pixelated when I zoom in?
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Unfortunately, no. If you keep the path on the screen, you can zoom in as much as you want. However, as with all rasterized lines in Photoshop, once you "commit" to pixels, they have a set resolution that becomes blurry as you zoom in closer, and sharper/blockier as you zoom out. You can avoid this problem slightly by working on a reasonably sized canvas (not too big, not too small), but overall, you'll always have pixelation when you zoom. :3
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I'll keep it in mind! Thanks again!
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This is AWESOME!!! Thank you so much it helps alot! FAVES
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Thanks so much for making this! It was really easy to understand!
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Awesome! I'm glad you found it helpful. :3
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ohh thank you! i think i love you xD
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Yay! Thanks for looking!
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Thanks for this, helped me no end!
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Thank you so so so much for making this!!!
This has helped me 8D
If I may *Faves* 83
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Thank you for looking!
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Hmmm...I tried save this for reference later. I'm not able to save it as anything. Did you set it up like that? Or could you please...pretty please...make a saveable version?
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It must be your computer. I have downloads enabled. :3
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Great Tutorial!!, but when its a scanned drawing , obiously its all dirty , HOW DO I CLEAN THE BACKGROUND? do I have to create a new layer to do the paths and the stroke thing, or do it on the background layer? cuz the paths are gonna be cleaned but the background not. How?
(Im new with photoshop) >//<
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DO NOT PUT YOUR PATHS ON THE BACKGROUND LAYER.
I can't stress this enough! *A* Here's how you should arrange your layers:
Layer 3
Layer 2
Layer 1
Background/Sketch
Layers are transparent when they start out life, so if you draw on them, they will be separate from the background, AKA your dirty sketch. If you draw on the background layer directly, you won't be able to separate your new and clean lineart from the sketch. You can make a many layers as you want for as many paths as you want. :3
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Thaanks:3 (Im sorry if Im so stupid x_x')
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You're not stupid! It was a good question and a mistake that lots of people make. :3
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Thanks so much its helping me I decided to learn thought my lines arent as smooth as yours are
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Thanks for looking! If you need help, let me know. :3
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When I use the pen tool its kind of round in the middle
I found it when I used it by creating the path its curves but it kind of blobby wider in the middle ;D
any ideas why?
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It sounds like you're not using a defualt PS brush. Open up the brush selector, click the little arrow button in the menu, and then pick "Reset Brushes". Try the first one. :3
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Did that this is what I got [link]
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It looks like maybe it's an issue with points. You only need a few points and anchors. The furry area around the jaw makes it look like you put a point at every corner and also every place where you wanted the line to bend. It that's the case, make sure you rely on your directional handles. If this isn't the case, I'm not sure what to recommend. D:
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Thank you Ill be sure to try that
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omg this blew my mind I did not know you could make a brush stoke like that in photoshop!
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Hmm, this is pretty good! I don't know if GIMP has all of the stuff in here...but I'm pretty sure that I could translate the parts over to there somehow...still a great tutorial!
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Thank goodness I finally found a tutorial that works for me! For the longest time I have been trying to get my brush strokes to look like that, but never could. Much love and many thanks for making this tutorial!
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Yay! Thanks for looking and I'm glad I could help!
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wow...
im so happy that finally i found a
pen tool tutorial..
i do really have a bad time using that tool..
thank you so much for this tutorial
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No problem! Thanks for looking!
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thank you very much for this tutorial! it is great! searched for something like that for years <3.
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thank you soooo much!
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Thanks for looking~!
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