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RizyuKaizen — Soft Shading Tutorial
Published: 2006-02-28 06:39:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 37822; Favourites: 783; Downloads: 8870
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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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amazing picture, great tutorial and very happy to see another mac user out there.
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Everyone in my school are MAC users that are in my feild of study. >^^< I :heart my MAC
That is now that it is working. If you came to me during my X-mass break I was ready to kill my loner MAC and wanting to shoot this one for its logic board fried.
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That brush comes standard in all the photoshops I've ever used. Elements (2.o, 3.o), Photoshop 5.5, 6.o, 7.o and Cs. ^_^
I much like the tutorial though.
Wait, where's the finished product? Oo;
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I am currently working on it >^^<;;;;
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sweet, i hope i can do this with photoshop7....
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I am sure you can do something similar. CS is really photoshop 8 if I am correct. If you dont have the same brush that I used the one that has flared edges can also give a gradual effect. Just gives a differen look to the end product. That is what I used at first when in doing digital soft shading *lineart ontop*
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This is great. Does it need to me a WACOM tablet?
I have an Aiptek. (That's all I could afford.) :3
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If it has a pen tool and has pressure sensors in the pen tip it should work. I just said what I used. >^^<
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the pressure's in the board, not the pen... if your nib's all springy it's just to make it feel natural. Man I love springy nibs *hugs tablet pen*
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This is majorly useful because I've never learned how to do anything but Photoshop, and most people do tutorials only for Illustrator. 
:3
Amanda
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If you ever do people, =mree did some good ones on eyes, skin and hair, based on Photoshop.
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Ooers. Thanks, I'll look into that.
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YAY this is perfect for when I fix my computer and use CS again!
Excellent job on the tutorial! :3
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Hay!!!! great tut. i really like it
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-cries- How come CS has that f'awsome paintbrush and CS2 doesn't? DD: -cries rediculously- Though it could be that pressure thing that my tablet doesn't have.. >>;; -kicks-
But thank the lord I've been lookin for a good soft shadin tut for a while now >DD -bookmarks-
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You can easily make the brush by tweaking a few settings on the standard hard round brush 
The good thing about PS brushes is they're very cusomisable
(if you wanna make the brush, settings to tweak under 'brushes' menu up the top-right, or windows>brushes:
- Set 'spacing' under 'brush tip shape' to 1%/minimum, as the theme here is smooth blending
- Set both opacity+flow to 'pen pressure' under the 'other dynamics' tab.
- Set'size jitter' to 'pen pressure' also, under the 'shape dynamics' tab, with the 'minimum size' set to 60-80%
- All other tabs unchecked. )
and yah, you do need a pressure sensitive tablet for this brush to be any use, like most brushes
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Thank you very much >D I've got it ALL written down <-- dork
But one more question: Are all wacom tablets pressure sensitive?
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haha, you think you're a dork?
I actually had a DREAM about a photoshop brush a couple of weeks ago, how's THAT for dorky?
k to answer your question the graphire + intuos ranges I know for sure are pressure sensitive. (intuos are signifacantly more expensive but they have twice the levels of pressure as graphires, and if you use both for a little while you can feel the difference quite obviously)
Those two are the most popular for digi artists.
There's also cintiques, where you draw directly on a 21-inch drop-dead gorgeous LCD monitor, but you'd have to be pretty damned rich and/or crazy to aquire one of those things
There are other ranges out there by wacom, eg the 'penpartner', that may or may not have pressure (not sure sorry) but they're not really aimed at digital artists, I think they're more like for office presentations and young kids and stuff... more like novel toys.
There's a little test thing here that might help if you wanna buy one, but keep in mind they're trying to make as much cash as possible, so shouldn't really be taken too seriously
btw
...I promise I don't work for wacom
and your avatar is the cutest thing I've seen in weeks
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haha thank you for EVERYTHING XD 
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Great stuff! How can you draw like that with a tablet? I cant use mine to save my life!
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WOOT! DRAGON GOODNESS! *ahem* sorry.. I'm alittle confused about the lineart though. Are you using the pen tool?..
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No using the brush tool on the hardest setting.
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Okay. Thank you very much. ^^
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I've gotta try that with a hard brush o.o! I love the painty feel of it 
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Thank you so much for this. I've done some shading on line drawings, just messing around but you have some great techniques which will really be useful for me.
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Glade to be of some help >^^<
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sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!! man i have so much to learn.....~_~ meh thanks for sharin this with us!!!!!!!!!!
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ack! i wish i had a wacom tablet...
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Make that 04 >< stupid typo's. sorry.
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>^^<;;; I got mine for x-mass in 2005.
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Amazing tutorial! I like how you've done the dragon's spike/facial plates/horn prats... they look soft but really angular. *_* Wonderful tutorial!
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that's an awesome tut. i suck at shading. i'll have to keep practicing!
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Awesome! I always tried soft shading, but always screwed up. Nice dragon too!
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i dont have the patience for shading.. i have enough patience for other things but not for shading, i dont know why
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May be it is not for everyone. I dont have patience to write *hates it*
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