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RizyuKaizen — Soft Shading Tutorial
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Media Needed/Prefered: Adobe Photoshop CS *or higher, most others are close but brush presets may be different* Wacom tabletTime: What ever time you may need.
Basic look at what I do for soft shading/digital painiting.
Again sorry for any spelling mistakes.
Image featured in this is currently being worked on.
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Oh god this is old. But it is a preset brush with in photoshop. On my list (using cs2 now) its the 3rd style in the listing. First is all the hard edge ones, then soft then the one i used in this and still do time to time.
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Thank for the tutorial, its been a while since I've painted anything and I've forgotten the technique. Again thank you very much!
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I understood very fast, easy to understand, really, thank you very much!
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I have a Question..
What do you use to make the clean lineart.
Beacause, me, when I try to make Lineart, it's always really ugly
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95% of my clean lineart is hand done with ink on paper. I rarely do digital lineart for I dont feel like I have that much control as I do with pen and paper.
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there are other was or so i hear or try it, it just depends on what you use to make the line art so you will have to experiment on it...
painter - cover pencil, or real 2B pencil
photoshop - a small brush size with a hard edge
or you can always do the pen and paper and use the scanner to put it into your desktop. if you use digital a stylus is perfered (Aka. tablets )
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What are your brush presets for this, you don't really specify in the tutorial.
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no presets. they are ones that are inside the program that i use. only presets i ever use are for my references of characters for the color pallets and mini backgrounds.
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Thanks for making this. It was really helpful. I've made a couple pieces and tried but couldn't quiet figure out how to get started on the style I really wanted to work with, nor had put a name to it, "soft shading" lol. Thanks much.
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WHOA!! You have a MILLION apps open!! Why don't you use Spaces?
Anyways, awesome tut! XDD
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90% of those are not open. they are just iconed on the bar for easy access later.
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Oh, okay, but still! Wow.
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This really helped! ^^ I was doing it all worng! 
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OMG u r a GENIUS .. No really not being sarcastic XD Thank you
===>green
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I like it! And it's worded in such a way that it's applicable to Gimp.
Kudos!
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oh really. Nice I would never have known that. >^^<
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I don't have that brush! (The brush you use to do all your shading)
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hmm =\ i was wondering, how did you set the brush pressure? also, to set it so that it applies to all brushes(?) =\
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I use a tablet. the pressure goes by how hard i push down. I dont know how it works for mouses.
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very simple yet useful tutorial i will keep in mind that not to use 100% opacity thanks for making a nice tutorial
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Very cool and simple to understand tutorial!
I haven't found the brushes in my Photoshop program 
But when i've recreated the brushes i will give it a try.
Thanks for sharing that tutorial with us!
Best regards
zero-tx
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Very interesting; thanks for shawing the knowledge.
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kool, did you make the shading brush, cuz i could really use one?
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No it came with my photoshop program. Sorry.
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oh thats kool, it must come on every version? dooyu think, ill look for it, maybe it is there.
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May be. Actuly most likely it is there. That brush is third on my list. Just keep looking for it. >^^<
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kool ill look, im working on a vector, im not sure if id be good at paitning though...
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Doing paiting is not easy. Need time and nervers to be abel to deal with it. Also having a tablet helps a lot. XD
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Wacom Tablet. It is pretty much a mouse in a way. Just you use a pen tool and touch the pressure sensor pad and get the effect like you are using a pen/pencil. Also it is pressure activated so the lighter you hit it the smaller the line. Something like thickness. Mine is a 4x6in one and cost $99 before tax and shiping *get it during x-mass no shiping and a $20 rebate*
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oh yeah ive herd of those, i think one of my friends has one.
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omg... i never knew how many layers you have to use just to get that kind of effect. >.< but, its really nice though! ^_^
guess the effort's worth it huh? 
anyway, nice tutorial! XD it was helpful!
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A work in progress shot is in my scraps right now.
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Arr, i see that you're a fellow pirate, mate! You have azureus, limewire, and kazaa in your toolbar. oh and nice tutorial.
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XD I guess you meen I am a fellow MAC user then yes >^^< *hatees windows computers for the most part now*
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^^ Very beautiful.
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Very nice tutorial, it helped me understand that better, I shall now fav this piece
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You know, if you have pressure sensitivity on your tablet (even if it's only got 512 levels like a graphire) there's no reason not to be able to use 100% opacity
Just be careful, keep a steady hand and practice, and instead of building up tones for ages and ages, you have the same result with better economy of brushstrokes, yaknow?
Good tut nonetheless. very clear
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