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Shinerai — Tutorial: Adding Color With Gradient Maps
Published: 2013-02-08 22:34:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 101077; Favourites: 4400; Downloads: 1581
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DescriptionMy progress image for the Yoi painting seems to have been well received, and I've gotten questions in the past about how I add color to my monochrome images. I tried to find some good Gradient Map tutorials to show other deviants, but I had no luck. So I made one myself.I'm not that great at making tutorials, so I hope it isn't confusing. It's probably not the best for beginners at Photoshop. I hope you enjoy, regardless.
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Thank you so much for this! I've been looking at the effects of gradient mapping lately, seeing how it effects photos and such, but I've never really understood it. This really helps! Thanks for taking the time to make this and your recent progress tutorial <3
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Thanks for this tutorial!
I did know, that there is a tool like this, but I didn't know how you can use it.
Thanks for all these awesome ideas!
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I didn't even know this was a feature! Thanks!
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Shin, you have absolutely no idea how long I have been waiting for a clear tutorial on this. I have asked people how they colour their b/w images and they always say "gradient mapping!" and they try explain it to me, but i've never ever understood.
You laid it out so easily, and you're not confusing at all. Thank you so so SO much for this shin, im going to download this and keep it so i can refer back to it. If you dont mind of course. But this is what I've been needing for too long! 
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You're very welcome hon cx I put it up for people to use so be my guest!
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I didn't know that gradient maps existed .3.
Thank you! It's so useful
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Alright! A new tip! Wanna test it using Gradient now!
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Nice tutorial! I use gradients when I colour my things, though it's shading for me. This will be useful! I only have Photoshop 7 though, I hope I can still do it in that.
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Yes you can still do it in there!
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Dude this is so cool. D: And really nifty now I really want to try it fjksdl. Thank you for making it, it's really awesome.
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Will definitely link you to my practice piece when I give this a whirl. I've avoided using gradient mapping...and just maps all-together...because they're so intimidating to me
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I can't wait to see cx they definitely can be intimidating at first D: i feel the same when using Curves, haha
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Really neat! I thought I knew every way to color, but have honestly never seen this method before... can't wait to try it out! Thanks for sharing
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You're welcome!! I'm sure you'll kick ass with it
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I must try this ! <3 thank you hun!!!!
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This is so cool. I've had such trouble painting images in color and then having to go back and adjust the tones. This is really very helpful!
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Neat ^^ I too wondered how you do this? XD
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Just gotta say, this is brilliant and I will definitely be trying it out. Thanks for the tutorial!
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omgggg that was absolutely amazing!!!! i wouldn't have thought of suing gradient like that!
thats so creative! thank you so much for sharing this technique with us!
its really inspiring!!
thankyou!!!
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Use Gradient Map to paint is a good idea, I'll try!
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wow, this is incredibly helpful. i never knew how to make and change gradients, i though you could only use what was provided, whoops.. thank you so much!
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aaaa i can't thank you enough for this, i never knew about this tool! This will be very helpful, thank you so much! <3
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This is so fantastic 
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Definitely adding to share. I love seeing tutorials that I can show to others, instead of trying to explain it verbally. <3
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Oh fff, thank you so much!
I'll try to work with this sometimes
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You're welcome!! I'd love to see what you do with it cx
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You're welcomeee!
Last time I tried to color with gradients, I think it turned out really ugly;
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I think I brought too much white/bright grey into the shaing and thus, somehow really ruinied it??
I will certainly give it another try sometimes soon.
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Hmmm. Im' not sure! Definitely an interesting approach, but I think it might be some of the contrast. MOST of the picture is black and the highlights are suddenly white, hmm! I'd love to see another try with gradients, they are pretty awesome
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I guess, too much dramatic light, hah!
I will
What I like about gradient coloring is that you have full control over the colors.
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I need to really try doing more monochrome work with gradients like this. It would be really helpful for contrast lol. Thanks for this though, I think I'll mess around with this method a bit!
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