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rejamrejam — Gradient Maps for Digital Painting - Part 2
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Published: 2018-04-05 03:25:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 13996; Favourites: 503; Downloads: 178
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Click here for part one!Standard disclaimer that there's no single right or wrong way to use this tool. These are just a sampling of the techniques I personally use with the gradient map tool. I use the first technique--changing the underpainting tones--in nearly every piece of art I make.
Gradient maps are one of those tools you find new uses for constantly as you experiment with them!
If you make use of this tutorial and want to say thanks, please feel free to drop by my Ko-fi at ko-fi.com/rejamrejam , or just leave a nice comment ;D
This is a Photoshop exclusive tutorial. I'm not sure if gradient maps exist in other software, but if they do I imagine they work on basically the same principles!
Feel free to ask any questions you may have! I'll be uploading some of my favorite basic gradients for y'all to use if you want, some time soon.
Free gradients to experiment with:
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Wow, I'm absolutely grateful that you got a daily deviation (rightly deserved) because I had the opportunity to stumble on it as a result. This is incredibly in-depth and helpful, and I look forward to applying it to my projects in the future. Thanks so much for taking the time to create this tutorial
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In these examples, what are you applying the gradient map to? The whole piece? Do you merge the layers, duplicate it, apply the map, and adjust opacity/layer style? Or the shading layer? Or are they applied to different layers depending on the piece?
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I think in all the ones I showed I applied it to the entire piece up to that point (so for the top examples there's a layer sandwich from bottom to top of sketch > shading > GRADIENT MAP > markings > painting), not clipped to anything. For the overall adjustments I just added one to the top of the layer stack, not clipped to anything. But you can definitely apply it to just one layer with a clipping mask if you need to make a finer-tuned adjustment to just one part. Sometimes if I'm painting a background I'll realize I have, say, some leaves in the midground that are too low-contrast so I'll fix them with a gradient map clipped to the "leaves" layer specifically, for example.
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That answers my question very well, thank you for taking the time! <3
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