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shirotsuki β tutorial pt. 1 - lines
Published: 2006-06-05 22:20:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 118823; Favourites: 2629; Downloads: 19976
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woot! ive begun to assemble that durn tutorial at last, starting with the way i prepare my lineart before dumping color all over it ^ ^. enjoy! and a disclaimer- by 'i dont like stark', im not saying that i hate all things bold and in your face XD. in fact, i love it! just not in -my- lines ^ ^.drawn on card stock!
tools-
o.7 mechanical pencil - doesn't repair automobiles
adobe photoshop 7.0 - ... well, nothing quite yet O o;. just lineart preps.
open canvas 4+ - inking
extra notes-
yes, i do use a tablet ^ ^;. its an intous 2, made by wacom. go tablet, go!
aaaand you can go see about open canvas here-
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Hello. I have problems in the steep 6, I canβt find or figure the guassian blur. You can tell me were can I find that option?
Thanks n_n
Pos. you are the number One!!! (Honestly)
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it is in Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur if u want 2 know^^.
And also if ur stuck with looking for this kind of thinks, aruyo... photoshop got a help function, with this u can find what u want 2 look 4^^.
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So that's how you make your soft lines. Thanks for sharing.
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line art is what kills my work...that and im lazy as hell
so thnx so much for doing this
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Splendid tutorial! Luffed it. I love your art, and am trying to capture the same softness with this one pic I am working on. But where I do I find this guassian (sp?) blur thing?
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Thank you very much! @__@
Just find it, but it'll be very helpfull!
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R u using a tablet with this one???? If yes then is there a guide mouse friendly 
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erm.. how do you make your brush like that? cause i keep trying on photoshop and it's all.. weird...
how do you make a brush thats really thin in the beginning and it gets all thick in the middle and then it goes back to thin at the end.. i need to know! =X
the tutorial is amazing ^^
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oh, oh! how awesome! thanks sooo much for the tutorial, sensei!!! 
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What resolution do you scan atοΌ οΌΎοΌΎοΌ
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Thank you so much for the link to download OpenCanvar4, I'm been looking for it for quite a while.
And thank you for the tutorial, really help a lot.
P/S : I'm so excited to try out this new program. XDDD Thank you very very much~!!!!!!
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I'm not sure what went wrong.. and you seem to be really good at photoshop.. so... I scanned my picture in, but it won't let me click anything in my channels or layers. It has them all locked. Do you know what's wrong with them?
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that happened to me once. it may be in the wrong format. meaning it might be a bitmap file or something. go to Image > Mode > RGB, and then you should be okay. you can choose another format instead of RGB, but that's the most common one. if you're sending something out for professional printing then you'll want to use CMYK, as that's the format that most printshops use. hope this helps! :3
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Thanks for your help. I figured that out a little while ago. Although.. I think I might prefer plain old pencil and paper to photoshop.
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^__^ that is gonna help me a lot thanks ^^ one question thought i dont have adobe so what other programs would you recomend? i have gimp...have you heard of it?
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Ooh! This is very helpful!
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omg!!! how do you manage to ink without going everywhere with the pencil too :[ I'm terrible at keeping my hand still to follow the image lines.
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Hey Shiro ^_^ I dunno if you've tried this, but it might make your life a little easier.
At the part in Photoshop, near the end of the inking process where you select the lineart layer and paste it twice, instead of doing that and having to waste time realigning the layers, just select the layer and drag it down over the new layer button. This should create an exact copy of the layer you've selected, only it'll already be in place. No realigning needed.
:huggle:
Hope this helps you out some... not that you need help x_x your a photoshop master~!
Awesome tutorial <3 from an equally awesome artist...
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yaya! many so far have pointed me to this marvelous way of simplifying the copylines task. control j is my new best friend ; ;. *hug!* thank you, all the same!
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holy gawd. how long do u take on ur pictures?....O____O
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What do I do if I have no "open canvas" but only photoshop 7?
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ah.. well, you can still kind of ink in that program too. you'll need a fuzzy round at a small brush radius, and be sure to set your options to smoothing. i think that would work, but im not sure!
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I tried to do something like that, it seems that it came out nice, for the first time trying to make a lineart out of art that I made by pencil, by tablet on my comp.
Thanks for the tutorial and the tips.
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[link]
If you go to [link] I think they have the link to the free version 1, but I don't know if that has all the features needed
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where do you get open canvas from? i cant seem to find any info on it.
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[link]
If you go to [link] I think they have the link to the free version 1, but I don't know if that has all the features needed
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i'll go check it out.
thanks for that
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sooo...ur saying in step 2....ya gotta actually hover the mouse over the lines and trace them to 'ink' em wit teh pencil? x.x???
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no ^ ^. i do that with a tablet. i dont think i could manage that with a mouse!
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WOW!!!!! this is the best line tutorial i've ever seen... it's very helpfull... thank you
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Cool stuff unfortunately i dont own a scaner, so this isnt much help. I dont supose you could do one about actualy drawing could youΒΏ?
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ah.. i think id find that a bit hard to convey. i kind of draw like a maniac, so it's no good for me to describe that ^ ^;
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aha! lineart! i only have mouse to line... do you have any idea to change the pressure of the pencil tool when you line with a mouse?
btw... what is the shortcut key to change from pencil to eraser?
*i'm a shortcut key addict
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whoohoo alright! another shortcut addict! pencil to eraser? in open canvas, if you hit A, you get pencil, and if you hit F, you get eraser ^ ^. very close by, easy access! aaaand sadly, no i dont.. i didn't start inking digitally untill i got a tablet.
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Yay! you're a shortcut addict too? i know all the shortcuts in PS XDXDXD !!!
i really wanna know about the pressure thingy... too bad i don't have a tablet
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ionno ^ ^;. i probably did this out of habit.
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question....will this work on open canvas 1.1......?
coz my open canvas3 plus isnt working well, and open canvas 4 well just finished the trail.
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im not sure if it would.. i dont remember if you can save your file as a PSD in open canvas 1.1, but i dont think you can.. so you wouldn't be able to bring it into adobe. i mean if you saved it as a JPEG there are some ways of going about it, you'd open the JPEG in photoshop, then pase it into a new file, you could float the lines and get the same effect as if you'd inked them transparently.. but then you'd have a PSD, and you wouldn't be able to bring it back into open canvas. you'd get as far as the lines though.
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oh, ok, then, ill just stick with painter then, thank you anyway.
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aiya, im sorry - -. but hey, i only wish i knew how to use painter!
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^^_. well i only started to use the tablet and painter etc...so wen i get better, ill show you,if i get better ^_^..i do love your art though, espiacally the borther and little sister. the so enjoyable to look at ^_^
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hmmmmm....using OpenCanvas seems like a good idea. 
oh~ if you don't like having to line up the lineart in PS when you copy+paste it, you should just duplicate the layer, it'll appear in the exact same spot, not tedious re-aligning
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You made my day. Now I can get those sketchy lines to finally look as sharp as the original, Nya~! ^_^
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