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rockinrobin — Layer Effects Tutorial
Published: 2010-12-03 01:23:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 43645; Favourites: 1481; Downloads: 608
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here's my first (of many, I hope) tutorials. here's some stuff that I think would've been helpful to know when I was first learning graphic design, so I hope it will be helpful to some people here! (: these effects are very useful for both photographs and drawings/paintings and can be tweaked to your liking. if you have any questions please ask and I'd love to help!drawing by Hiromu Arakawa (Fullmetal Alchemist).
Edit: Wow, this was way more popular than I was expecting! thanks so much for the favs and comments everyone! I'll try to make some more tutorials like this very soon. (:
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This rocks! 
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Wow, this is amazing. Why did I ever think this was hard to do?
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Thanks for taking the time to put this tutorial together! Really helpful stuff
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Amazing, and that glowing effect is just amazing! Thank you for sharing this great work
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thank you so much! this helped on a Valentine deviation i was working on!
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Oh wow! Thanks so so much! Really really useful <3
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Woah! This is incredibly clear and precise, yet variable and covering exactly what it needs to! Not many tutorials manage this! Kudos!
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OMG! This is so kewl o3o *never realized that* . .I'm doing this tonight!
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Thank you thank you so much for making this! This is easy to understand, and very helpful! Thank you so much!
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Interesting! Something I've never really thought much about
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Hey, this is pretty awesome! I've tried a few of these techniques before, but there are quite a few on here that I never even thought of. Nice!
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Cool!!! I love it!!
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Very nice way to show what layer styles can do, I think you portrayed it really well! I'm sure many, many people will find this very useful - myself included
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Ahh I never thought of doing some of these things!
Also thanks to this tutorial I finally understand what the 'Exclusion' effect does.
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This is great! I use blending modes all the time, but I never thought of using a blur or a gradient in them!
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Thanks for sharing, I really find it useful! Some of these effects can just be discovered by trying, so thanks for showing!
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Awesome Tutorial! Thanks for sharing this info!
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Wow this is going to be very helpful. Thanks so much ^^
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You have no idea how helpful this is. Layer effects confuse the hell out of me.
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Very helpful. I'm sure I'd have gotten there by trial and error to find out what everything did, but this is way easier. Could you do one will the full list of what all the layer modes do? Ex: multiply, lighten, darken, color burn... I know you've done a few in this one, but what about all in one? (or parts if that's huge)
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hmm yeah that's a good idea. I'll probably make an extended version as a continuation of this tutorial sometime. but the best way to figure out what everything does is just experiment with the different settings and stuff, you can probably figure a lot out on your own! (:
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Cool. You are right though on the experimentation part. It'd still be nice to have something to reference.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!
I always wondered how people made their pctures look so amazing!
This is so helpful! ^-^
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great tutorial!! I'll keep that in my mind!
thanks for sharing
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thank you for explaining layers 
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Thank you this is useful, I ' ll have to try this out
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This is great ty so much. Any tips on how to make a gradient? Like for the gradient layer you have, do you manually use the airbrush or something and try to spread the mix of color like that or does SAI have an option to create gradients like the one you show? Thanks
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hm.. I guess SAI doesn't have a gradient tool, so you'd have to do it manually. but it should be easy enough to do with the paintbrush or watercolor brush, just set the blending on a high setting and mess around with the opacity settings. Photoshop or other graphics programs have a handy gradient tool though.
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