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TaniDaReal β Digital coloring - basics
Published: 2008-11-12 22:37:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 53549; 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 love that tutorial because layer is very usefully!
Thank you a lot, Tani! =3
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This tutorial was SOOOO helpful! 1 thing though---How do you add layers?
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It depends on the program you're using (not all programs have this option). If you use Photoshop, there is a "layer" button in the menu or the layer window.
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How do you get the nice lines for your outline? I can never get those solid, crisp looking lines..
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Draw the original picture/outlines in a bigger version (no matter if on big paper or using a large image file on the computer). If you reduce the size of your picture at the end, your outlines will automatically look smoother again.
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Wow, thanks Tani! 8D This has been a problem for me for a long time. Thanks for the help! You have some very helpful and clear tutorials you have running.
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do you know how to extract a lineart from the white bg if you used a scanned image? i don't have a tablet to trace my lines on the computer, so i'm trying to avoid the squwiggly stuff I know i'll end up with if I were to use my laptop's touchpad. < broke college kid
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T.T this is the onlyone i can somewhat under stand and im stuck on step three i have the back ground black and all like she said to but i cant find nothing at the bottem or anywhere called to create a mask or somthign someone help T.T THANK YOU TANI!!!
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sweet this will cut coloring time in half
(well for me anyway)
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Thanks for this tutorial, i learned a cool and more easy way to color my pictures with masks. Really cool, simple and very useful.
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Now we just need a tutorial on how to do BG's with this method. I mean color behind the image. How do you do that with the mask?
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Actually the same way, as you can select anything you like with a mask. 
Or - another method (what I'd do) - if you have your mask only for the wolf layer (like in the tutorial), you can simply draw your background on a new layer (without mask) below/under the wolf layer. You can draw anything you like there, the masked wolf layer above will not be affected by it. So you don't neccessarily need another mask for the background.
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Oooooh Durrrr hurrr. So simple but I made it more complicated then it was.
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Wow das sieht super aus - aber ich kann leider fast kein Englisch kann man das ev. irgendwie ins Deutsche ΓΌbersetzen *duck* *eep*
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is this project D ? very helpful by the way thank you
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No, Project D was "Daiquiri", my new wild dog fursuit (costume).
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oh ya i saw that thats very good. are you planing on doing other photoshop tutorials becaue i need all the help i can get.
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wow, alot of info, nice... i might just use this =3
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Very useful, indeed. This adds a valuable bit of information about what little i know about Photoshop CS3. Thank you for sharing. Your art is lovely ^^ Congratulations and keep up your excellent work.
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why everybody's using blue color? does it stand only when we are drawing charas with light colors of fur or it doesn't matter?
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meow?
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^_^ nice
Yeah,it's the basics. It does seems useful when you just started with photoshop
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OMG this is gonna be so helpful!!
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Wow, awesome. XD This will help, I'm sure, never thought of using masks. o.o; I wonder, though... do you know if it's the same way for Photoshop Elements 5? It's what I use. o.o If not, that's alright. XD Either way, awesome tutorial. XD
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I am sorry, I never used Photoshop Elements, so I don't know.
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Totally alright. XD Thanks for replying. XD
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Even though I sort of piece together what I do from a variety of different sources, it's always interesting to see how some of my favorite artists do things.
And outlines with transparent backgrounds have been a must with me for years! So useful if you want something besides plain old black lineart 
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Its amazing how it can "assumed" that people already have linework and tha they even DO linework
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Greate job! You helped me a lot! Thank you!
I'm looking forward to see the others!
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Hm, vieleicht hilft mir das ja demnΓ€chst mal beim colon ;3 Danke fΓΌrs hochladen ^-^
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Ohhh so that's how you use masks! That's gonna make things much simpler and tidier hehe, thanks!
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this should come in really handy! thanks for this and thanks again for the outline! ^_^
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*blinks blinks then smashes his head against his desk* I use to select the inside of the face and I didn't think about this other way to go one little second of my life ... thank you Tani !
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That was very easy to understand. :> Great tutorial.
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mann sieht des kompliziert asu -_-
des schaff ich doch nie......
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So schwer ist es nicht.
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^^ Aber ich versteh, leider nichts
Hast du aber trotzdem toll gemacht!!!
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ich versteh auch kein wort dafon, ligt aber wohl an meinem schlechtem englisch. ^^'
das end ergebnis siht aber toll aus
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I love learning new things with Photoshop! Honestly, I'm a bit of a tutorial whore when it come to coloring with PS. Thanks for this one. I never really knew how to use the masks to my advantage!
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