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TaniDaReal — Digital coloring - basics
Published: 2008-11-12 22:37:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 53546; Favourites: 1481; Downloads: 1031
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My first tutorial:Digital coloring in Photoshop (basics), by using a mask.
I used Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial.
It's really just the basics. Shading, coloring outlines, etc. will be explained in other tutorials.
There already are so many tutorials out there, but... well, now it's so many + 1.
Hope you like it.
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i can't seem to get to the vector mask...it only lets me use layer mask, but i use pen tool and then click...there is no way to select an option. Once i click 'layer mask' though, the button will turn into a vector mask...but at that point i'll have two chains - one a layer and one a vector?
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Thank you for making this tutorial. It helped me so much
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Hahaha. His expression make the Tutorial even better!
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Thank you very much! This is exactly what I was looking for, you helped me a lot!
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THANK YOU THANK YOU!!
Buuttt
I use a tablet as well, Wacom Bamboo...and I try to get such nice lines like that, help? D:
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Wow, this was really helpfull! Thank you very much.
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By using a graphic tablet and working with big files (pixel). :3
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is very useful, but I think you should also put in Spanish
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This is fantastic, thank you so much! Exactly what I wanted and not as complicated as other tutorials
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Awesome, I just got through trying to color my first pic and this is invaluable info for that. Saves me a lot of erasing!
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I have lines that were kindly shared with me to let me color, and since are so cute, I got the inspiration to try to throw on some flat colors digitally. (I don't do digital, I do traditional) So. I wanted help on how to go about adding colors without ruining the lines or get that grainy, ugly outline and omg, this is of SO MUCH HELP. I never knew how to do some of these tricks here with the masks. <3 Thank you so much for doing this. ^__^
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thanks so much for the tutorial! I liked him very useful!
I hope that CS4 is not very different ...
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Wow, I finally figured out how to use masks... actually I knew I just forgot :wink: Hahaha, well that's what happens when you don't use Photoshop for a while! Anyway, thanks for the tutorial! I used it for one of your linearts (The same one in the tutorial XD) and it looks great!
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Thank you so much! Now I understand what masks are good for
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WOW! i will be sure to use this!
Just as soon as i find out how to find these things...
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DERP. The second find was supposed to be "Use" not "find" I have serious words issues. :
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No need to appologize! im the one with grammar problems!
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Hmmm, I am still not sure about the useful purposes for layer masking.
Maybe I'm just too thick headed! X))
Anywho ... Since I am poor and short on funds, I can't afford Adobe Photoshop CS3. But I do have an old copy of Adobe Photoshop 6, Paint Shop Pro 7 and the free Open Source Gimp 2.8 that I use interchangeably. PSP 7, however, has a glitch in it in which the layer tool will hang or crash the program if used, but been able to get around that to maneuver around and use layers through short-cut keys.
All in all, I've never really needed to use masking ... but it is something that I should play around with, anyhow.
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Oh my goodness <3 You have no idea how much this helped me. Thank you so much! The selection and invert and contracting works so well.
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This tut helped me very much. You have a nice way of explaining things easy and understandable. Thank you
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i cant find the vector mask
i use Photoshop Elements
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I have never worked with Photoshop Elements, but it's possible that there are some options missing (that are available in the full Photoshop version).
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o ok...
ill try this once i get the full version!
thanks for telling me that the option's missing O.O otherwise i would've kept looking ^_^'
wonderful tutorial btw!
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Thanks for these tutorials! I have had some sort of right way of knowing how to do coloring, but there have been something major stuff always messing it up, and now I finally got myself to try again with this. And it seemed I didn't mess it up! 
Now I'm going to try this to my own art. Thanks again
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ok im having problems, i follow everything exactly but when i go to fill the color on the mask layer, i have the regualr one clicked...it doesnt come up blue...
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thank you so SO much <33 This is gonna help a hell of a lot in future <33 It's so simple and easy to understand >W< Unlike some other tutorials I've seen D:
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Great tut
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do both of your tutorials (lines and colouring) work on paint shop pro 9? :S
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As I have never worked with Paint Shop Pro, this might get difficult... I am sorry!
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haha no worries ;D. thanx for the help <3
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I wanna try it but I dunno how to get the begining, or how to add Outlines & Colouring to the folder...I can I please have help D':
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Out of 50 tutorials.. you are the only one that explained what and how to use a mask was O_____o Helped me out a lot.. So many thanks!!!
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