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Published: 2011-03-03 15:05:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 23712; Favourites: 715; Downloads: 1597
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I've not been able to paint the last few days so I decided to try and write up some sort of basic tutorial on how I colour from a greyscale image.I'm still learning myself so I find it quite hard to give advice but hopefully a few people my find something of help in there.
Feel free to leave me a comment if there is anything you don't understand and I'll do my best to help out. Also I may do some more tutorials in the future so if there's anything you'd like me to cover let me know.
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No problem, I hope you find it useful.
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Thank you so much for the greyscale to color the tutorial!
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How fantastic is this! Thank you so much, I've been tearing my hair out over this. Thank you!!!
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This is really helpful and great ! But i have a question , when you have layers of different kind , such as normal , overlay, softlight and you stack(merge) them their look and the picture is ruined. So much question is how to merge them without losing the look ?
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Thanks, I'm pleased you found it helpful.
The only way I know how to do it is. Select all, Ctrl+A, then do a copy merge, Shift+Ctrl+C, then paste that into a new layer, Ctrl+V. This will take a copy of every visible layer and paste it into a new layer. Now you can flatten the whole image or use Ctrl E to start to merge down the layers.
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Woah! Thank you very much. You are great , keep on the awesome work!
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simple and really helpful.Thanks so much for making this tut!
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Dude, I really have to thank you for this tutorial.
This helped me so much to get better.
I hate it to work with colors first and I had not found a good way to get color to a greyscale image, but after I worked the way of this tutorial my pictures became better and better every day.
This is the first tutorial that make really sense.
All other Greyscale-color tutrial are very confusing to me...
Thank you so much for this!
You are a saint.
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Thanks for the kind words Dragonborn, I really appreciate you taking the time to leave a comment. I'm pleased you found it useful and I'm looking forward to seeing what you did with it.
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No problem.
You deserve it.
May I ask you how long you need for such a picture.
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I think I painted it over a couple of days, maybe around 6-7 hours in total.
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Good to know.
Thank you very much again.
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Wow this was a great tutorial.
I always get as far as the basic color wash but now thanks to your steps I should be able to go further...
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Thanks, that means a lot. I'm glad people have found it useful.
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I've been wondering about colouring in greyscale for a while. Thank you for this helpful tutorial! Can't wait to try it out!
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Thank you, I hope you find it useful.
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Thanks for your tutorial.
Finally I found a good way to get well looking colors to my greyscale paintings.
And the tipp with the Unsharp mask is also very useful!
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Thanks man, I'm glad you found it useful
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Very helpful, thank you
By the way, did you use a fur brush for this?
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Thanks glad you found it useful. I have my brushes uploaded on here if you want to check them out. I think I mainly painting all the fur with the brush on the fourth row on the far right.
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Alright I'll check it out, thanks!
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hello, i want to ask..on the 2nd step, did you just use 1 color per part? (ex: 1 color for fur, 1 color for armor), because everytime i add color, it looks flat...
sorry if my english is not good. thank you.
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Yes,the first colour pass in the 2nd step is just flat colour, after that I used another overlay and soft light layer to add a bit of variety to the colour of the fur before I started to paint on a normal layer.
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Thank you for providing such a helpful tutorial
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The Greyscale thing is a good tip! I'll probably try it out when I amke my next digital painting.
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My Hero, I am currently having trouble how to add color to the grayscale image..but i think this tutorial is going to help me with my struggle Thanks.
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Thanks, hope you find it useful.
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You're such a nice person. Thank you for making this, it really helps!
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This is a cool tutorial. I've tried a similar method before, but I think this explains in better detail how to avoid having bland colors from overlay mode. Thanks a lot. I can't wait to give it a go.
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I have struggled and struggled with the methods to coloring over greyscale, and this is the first step by step that makes sense to me! Awesome!
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Thanks, I pleased that a few people found it helpful.
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Thank you for taking the time to create this tutorial. It helped clear my head on a couple of things and I'm very grateful for that. A beautiful illustration and a fantastic lesson. I look forward to seeing more of your amazing work.Take care.
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Thanks, glad you found it useful.
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Ah great! Finally I get to know how to do this! Thanks so much!
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I really need to try out the whole greyscale and color over thing :3
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It was not long ago that I was searching a tutorial, exactly like yours! This is amazing! Thanks a lot for sharing your work and time to show us things behind the curtains!
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This is a great tutorial. I never understood how to overlay color over grayscale, but now I do! I might give this a shot later :3
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