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secret-pony β Paint tool SAI tutorial: Color overlay
Published: 2015-07-20 16:57:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 36861; Favourites: 682; Downloads: 255
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Here's a nifty Paint tool SAI trick that can help you adjust the colors of your drawings to add to your shading and highlights, or to create a certain mood or atmosphere!I often use this to give my shading that little something extra... it kind of makes it look more dynamic... or something
Play around with different colors on the overlay layer to see for yourself how it affects your drawings!
In general your colors will come out more saturated, so be sure your base colors aren't too bright on their own!
You can also limit your overlay colors to just the corners or edges of your drawing or adjust the opacity to make the effect less outspoken!
Image used in this tutorial:
Please don't ask me how it's done in Photoshop, Ilustrator, GIMP...Β
Odds are it's very similar, but I can't say for sure! IΒ have never used any other program but SAI for drawing.
If you're looking for more resources for drawing with SAI or drawing ponies in particular, check out my other tutorials and step by step processes .
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* o * this tutorial is magical and I am amazed
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This was very simple and very useful. Thank you very much for posting this.
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oh my gosh this is so useful!! thank you so much!!
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Β My drawings were looking so dead and dull before this, thanks for such an easy tutorial!
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Wow! this really makes sense!! thankyou so much!!~Β
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Sorry to bother, But how do you actually activate Overlay?
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Sorry for the late reply.
Make a separate layer for your overlay effect and set the layer mode of that layer to "overlay".
There's a screenshot way at the top of the tutorial. c:
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can you please tell me what canvas size to use?and thank youΒ your tutorials are so helpful ^^
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I usually start with a blanc A4 canvas (preset in Sai, forgot the pixel size) for sketching. I usually end up using only 1/4th and I crop the canvas when the sketch is done x3
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This is so helpful thank you again^^
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Aaaah, so THAT'S how it works. i experimented this a few times before but this explains it well. thank you for this tutorial!
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No sweat! Good luck!
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......... I actually kind of like the effect when you showed what it would look like without the overlay setting, looks very dreamlike ;u;
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Hahaha xD B- but that wasn't the point!!! xD
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You're very welcome, you adorable munchkin
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then WHY did you get sempai gift?Β
RIDDLE ME THAT, SECRET
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Obviousy you were trying to make a Peppy, but all of a sudden it turned out black and red, with a bag. Go home Pyro, you're drunk!
(I love it so much! He's so cute with his little bag and everything!)
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i'm so glad you guys liked them :3 I gotta post pics
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Cool! I'll have to try this in the art piece I'm currently working on
The process for Illustrator would be similar. It just involves a couple different tools (gradients, transparency masks) and a great deal more time X3
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Alright-y! Hope it'll work well for you too! ^^
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Or, you can add all layers in one folder, and then create the clipping group :0
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oo beautiful, just not sure if it'll work for other programs D:
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Thanks. I have no idea, to be honest xD
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You are just pumping out the tutorials ^-^ great work again!
This very helpful tip
I do the same thing with 'multiply' when I want a dark tone to the picture ^-^
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I do too, but I just this thing even on top of that!
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