HOME | DD

RebeccaStapp — Grayscale to Color Tutorial

Published: 2010-09-30 02:27:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 13893; Favourites: 319; Downloads: 142
Redirect to original
Description As requested, a grayscale to color tutorial.
Download for full size.

Yes, there is a lot of text. I hope I explained everything properly. As always, if you have any questions, just ask!

It was brought to my attention that I used a couple of terms that not everyone may be familiar with, so here are some clarifications:

*complementary colors are color that sit directly across from each other on the color wheel such as:
Red and Green
Yellow and Violet
Orange and Blue
[link]
Using complementary colors, or colors that are closely adjacent to those colors, creature depth and variety in your shadows and highlights. Try it!

**A good definition of contrast: [link]
Related content

RebeccaStapp - OUTDATED Coloring Lineart Tutorial

RebeccaStapp - Aryo Ref Sheet

RebeccaStapp - Standing Horse

RebeccaStapp - Family

RebeccaStapp - Momma's Boy

RebeccaStapp - Blissful Baby

RebeccaStapp - Grayscale Trial 2.0

RebeccaStapp - Paytayah Ref

RebeccaStapp - Teacup Ponies

JackKiraS - Equilion Adopt (open)

Naia-Art - -= Ash =-

Drasayer - The Measurement of Change

LKGamingART - DA Supporter

LovelyPixelGals - My Coffee Jar

Tea-head - Monthly sketchbook,s for you

LKGamingART - DA Super Supporter

Teira-Nova - High Res WiP Art Support

Hial - Mane tutorial

Ilyana88 - Gradient Shading Tutorial. Pt1

chronically - Shading Tutorial

auredd - aur's mane painting tutorial

Chunga-Stock - SCS Tutorial - Patronus Horse

HLRynlar - Drawing Eye Tutorial

cerona - Tutorial: Reflection Part 1 [DD]

BlackieBear101 - Digital Art Tutorial.

Captured-Light - Tutorial 1:. Howrse Pixel Avatars
Comments: 67

RebeccaStapp In reply to ??? [2010-10-01 22:54:39 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I'm very glad to hear that...must be doing something right!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

lovedrunkk [2010-09-30 20:03:15 +0000 UTC]

does this work on photoshop elements 7? i can't wuite figure it out.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

RebeccaStapp In reply to lovedrunkk [2010-10-01 22:53:35 +0000 UTC]

It should...though you may want to check out an Adobe help site or a tutorial that is especially made for PS Elements. I have not worked in Elements for a long time, so I can't say for sure. But if I remember correctly, it should have the capability.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

lovedrunkk In reply to RebeccaStapp [2010-10-02 02:41:33 +0000 UTC]

Alright. I'll play around with it. I'm just not sure about the layer settings and all.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

RebeccaStapp In reply to lovedrunkk [2010-10-03 01:22:32 +0000 UTC]

Sorry I couldn't be of more help. Hope you get it all worked out!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

kalmakoira [2010-09-30 08:38:46 +0000 UTC]

I might have to try this out So many people seem to be doing these grayscale colorings and I've never tried

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

RebeccaStapp In reply to kalmakoira [2010-10-01 22:52:15 +0000 UTC]

You should! I think it's excellent for doing color ref sheets like some of the ones I see you did recently or making adoptables. In some ways, it's easier to paint in grayscale first so you can really focus on the shading without worrying too much about color. I'm a lazy artist, lol.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

kalmakoira In reply to RebeccaStapp [2010-10-02 10:45:37 +0000 UTC]

Lol yeah, color is sometimes very hard when shading because there's so many shades you don't wanna mess with.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

RebeccaStapp In reply to kalmakoira [2010-10-03 01:22:11 +0000 UTC]

Yep!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

FruVider [2010-09-30 05:41:41 +0000 UTC]

It's a nice tut, even though I don't like doing grayscale anymore xD think the horses look dead when i do xD

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

RebeccaStapp In reply to FruVider [2010-10-01 22:50:12 +0000 UTC]

I typically don't color my horses this way...only when I need to mass-produce identical horses with different coat colors, like for a client or something.

I found a neat way around the "dead horse" look though, if you want to give it another go. You can use the above method, then use the air brush to paint on different ambient colors, using different layer/brush modes like Overlay or Soft Light. You can get some really pretty results like that...I think I picked up the idea from *Losmios . ...I'll stop rambling now! XD

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

FruVider In reply to RebeccaStapp [2010-10-04 08:05:09 +0000 UTC]

yeah, for mass producing it's good actully ;D

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

JuliasNadaPoodle In reply to ??? [2010-09-30 02:31:43 +0000 UTC]

Finally! A Proper grey scale tuto! Thank you

👍: 0 ⏩: 2

RebeccaStapp In reply to JuliasNadaPoodle [2010-10-01 22:45:40 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! I'm glad it's understandable.

As for working in PS Elements...I'm honestly not sure. I did not start using this method until after I got CS3, so I don't know if the paths are the same in Elements. But I'm sure it has the capabilities. Poke around a little and maybe check out some Adobe help sites to see how to use this method with your version of PS.

👍: 0 ⏩: 1

JuliasNadaPoodle In reply to RebeccaStapp [2010-10-02 00:45:44 +0000 UTC]

Alright! Thanks a bunch!

👍: 0 ⏩: 0

JuliasNadaPoodle In reply to JuliasNadaPoodle [2010-09-30 02:33:56 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, But does this work on pse also? Or just Photoshop?

Thanks, again

👍: 0 ⏩: 0