First Inking and Coloring!

[Yin]

Yay, it's small, and not a grand-hoopla inking like Veik or Poison, but it's a start!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/BiggShuggs/firstinking.jpg

Found a tutorial off of Farlow Studios, and it worked. I'm happy with it. Heh. I've been trying to learn how to ink with Adobe Photoshop Elements for the longest time.

[Quakester]

It's a good start, Thresh. Soon, you'll have people begging you to ink and color my stuff ;)

[Elemento]

You're off to a good beginning, Thresh.:)
I prefer the old fashion way but that's just me. :D I hand draw, ink, and color. Takes more time but I feel more comfortable with it.

[Belabras]

Looks great Thresh!

[Mega Electro]

very nice, i call first in line :D

[Overbite]

Very nice. :)

[Yin]

Thanks, all! :)

[Yellow Wolf]

Nice goin Thresh

[Red Nile]

Nice start, Threshold. I gave inking a shot over the weekend, had a bit of trouble with it. I'll try again soon, looks like you had better results than my first attempt. :)

[Blazing Tudra']

yeah good job i just got a new computer and photoshop is that what you use? If so is it difficult? Is there any good books out there I could get to help me?

[Necrosys]

Looks awesome, Threshold! :)

[Megumiko]

Threshhold, I like what you are doing with the inking. In particular, I like the eyelide and the eyebrow. They just look so nice.

One suggestion/question: Keeping in mind that I have never messed with Photoshop Elements, can you space your pologonal lasso tool (if it has one) points much closer together? That way you can acheive a smoother line.

I constantly use the polygonal lasso tool and the eraser to make my lines smoother. I never was successful at traditional inking because I had a wonderful knack of slipping with the pen or turning what was a lovely fluid pencil drawing into something dead and dull. Using Photoshop to ink, though, it is very hard to destroy a drawing.

Anyway, keep practicing, you've gotten a nice start!

[Yin]

Yes, Photoshop Elements does have a polygonal lasso tool, and yes you can space them closer together. That's how I was able to get somewhat smoother edges for the eyebrow and what not. A lot of clicking, but the end result is nice. :)

[Solos]

Wait, you didn't use the pen tool? The pen tool is vector based so it scales much better. You can also alter the lines on the fly by altering the curve, deleting points, adding points and moving points. Also remember to keep zooming out so you can see what it looks like at normal size. Sometimes it looks a lot different when small than taking up the entirescreen.

[Megumiko]

Yes, Photoshop Elements does have a polygonal lasso tool, and yes you can space them closer together. That's how I was able to get somewhat smoother edges for the eyebrow and what not. A lot of clicking, but the end result is nice. :)


That's good to know. Thought it might, I think even MS apint has one, but didn't know if Adobe would be to stingy to include one or not. :)

So, when you find you like inking, then what you do is get yourself a little graphics tablet, like a graphire or something, and have at it!

[Yin]

Wait, you didn't use the pen tool? The pen tool is vector based so it scales much better. You can also alter the lines on the fly by altering the curve, deleting points, adding points and moving points. Also remember to keep zooming out so you can see what it looks like at normal size. Sometimes it looks a lot different when small than taking up the entirescreen.

Elements doesn't have a Pen tool, unless I'm just not looking hard enough.

And thanks for the tip, Mega! :)

[Red Nile]

The pen tool is vector based so it scales much better.

Not sure I understand this part. Can you explain what you mean in more detail? What do you mean by scales better? What makes it vector based? I know what vectors are, not sure how that applies to the pen tool...

[Belabras]

Ah, a graphics neophyte!

Graphics formats (and by proxy, programs) come in 2 flavors - raster and vector. Raster file formats are ones such as jpg, bmp, and gif - they are a map of pixels at a given size, and as such they will look more and more pixelated if you blow up the image. All photos are raster images. Vector images, on the other hand, are more like a matrix of points on a graph - the image is formed by lines (vectors if you will) mapped out by points in a 2 dimensional space. Because at it's core a vector image is just math, you can make it as large or small as you want and the image will be just as crisp as when you made it. Adobe Illustrator files, some tifs, and occasionally psd files are vector based. Fonts, shapes, and the pen tool in Photoshop are vector based.

[Solos]

The shapes it creates are recorded as vectores. Say i drew a fracture logo with it on a 10*10 pixel document. I could then enlarge it to 1000*1000 and it wouldn't lose any of its quality (compared to a rastor image which would look like a few fuzzy blocks at that size).

[Red Nile]

Ah, neat. :) Thanks for the explanation, both of you. :)