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Published: 2015-03-02 03:07:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 22537; Favourites: 170; Downloads: 178
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Here's part one of a new, updated tutorial on how I make my manips. This part covers the body fur process, as well as one possible way to add color to the fur. It was written using Photoshop CC, but it should still work for any version from about CS3 on. I'll try to get part II finished by the end of the week.Stocks courtesy of LinzStock and GrayeyesStock
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On what site/place does a picture need to be edited on?
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I usually use Photoshop CC for my manips, but the tutorial can be adapted for other programs such as GIMP. I'm not sure that there's an in-browser editor with all of the features I typically use.
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Ok, but do you use any other things to do this in?
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No, all of my manips have been put together using some version of Adobe Photoshop, either CS5 or CC.
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I will try these and IF they don't work can you help me? Please
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thank you now i can work with something good for a change
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Hey, I'm doing a tiger manip, how do you keep the original fidelity of the animal fur? When I add the adjustment layers, it completely changed the coloring of the original image of the fur
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Think you could take me step by step through what you're doing, so I can try to see where the problem is? It's most likely a layer positioning problem, but there's several other things it might be.
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Well by putting the adjustment layers to the ones specified, I have the -100 sat on the c layer and -25 lightness, and the -40 sat on the soft, but all it's doing when I add in the fur is give it pretty much over saturation and losing the color of the fur
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How dark is the image overall? And is the C layer set to Hard Light, or something else?
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Overall image is unchanged because layer a is unchanged, c is set at hard light
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So it currently looks like:
A - Copy of background layer with to-be-furred parts erased/masked out
B - Soft Light background layer
C - Hard Light background layer
D - The fur you want to apply
E - Original background layer (no alterations, just in case)
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Yup, and the green underneath the fur to see what needs covering
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Hmmm...think you could post a WIP shot to your Sta.sh or something, so I can see what it's looking like? Or if the PSD file isn't too ginormous, actually upload that so I can look at the layers themselves? If you don't mind me looking at your WIPs, of course. You can note me the link instead of posting it here, if you'd like.
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Sent a note, you'll see that when the fur layer is under the hard light layer, it gets over saturated and if the adjustment layer for the hard light gets put on top, it makes the fur and everything underneath black and white
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Layers B and C (the lighting layers) - are they actual adjustment layers, using the menu in the Layers panel, or are they copies of the background layer that you've applied adjustments to?
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Aaah that's it! Thank you sir, should be going nicely soon enough
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I haven't used Elements enough to know what the differences are between it and the full Creative Suite.
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One question? Is this similar to GIMP, and can you use the same tools to get the job done?
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With GIMP, you need to manually add an Alpha Channel to every layer you intend to use the Eraser on, or else it won't erase properly. GIMP also currently doesn't support Adjustment Layers, so you'll have to use a different method for coloring. That's not that bad, though - I didn't use adjustment layers for the first year of my manipping career, so you can definitely do it without them. I'd suggest using the Color blending mode method that I'm going to show in one of the upcoming parts of the tutorial.
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I've been a Photoshop fan since 1998 so forgive me if this question seems odd but..."How the heck can *erase* not work the same in Gimp?! It's the ERASE TOOL!"
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Gimp automatically erases to the background color, not to transparency. You have to manually add an Alpha Channel to every layer you want to erase to transparency, or else nothing will show through from lower layers.
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Yeah...they shouldn't call that the erase tool. That's the "color over with black on a black background and pretend it's erased." tool.
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Oh, you need to add an alpha channel to the layer, if I recall correctly. Otherwise it goes to the background colour.
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I don't have Problems with Gimp. It works very well
But the masking tool in PS are a lil bit better i think.
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Also, awesome tutorial, can't wait for part 2.
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question does it have to be whichever software this is?
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You know, I really should have indicated that. It was made with Photoshop CC, but should be good for any version from CS3 and on. It's possible to use the same techniques in Gimp, but there's several extra steps, since Erase doesn't work the same way that it does in PS.
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to be honest from what i can tell its going to be one heck of a long but good tutorial (even if i don't have any photo editing software as much as id like to try my hand at manips) it seems like it will be applicable to plenty of software and even for proper amateurs like me can use it
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once your done with this series, I'd love to see one of how to do scales/dragons
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