Veik's Tutorial Chest

[Overbite]

The TUT Box
Please Read below...

These tutorials are meant to help you learn your Photoshop program. The best way is to fiddle around with the different options and see what gives you what. Whithin this topic will be a number of tutorials Some will be up until this topic is burried, some will be deleted over time.

Everyone has the ability to create "artwork" for some it just take more time to learn.

These tutorials were made using Photoshop 7, the commands may be different if you are using another version.

A thumbnail will be shown and a link will be provided above the thumb to the larger image

I hope you will take the time and show your results within this topic.
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For Ink Tutorial see page 3
For Coloring TuT see page 4

[Tarkenchi]

Wow, Thanks Veik! :D

[Quakester]

Dude, that is fantastic. Not sure i have the patience to try it, but it's freakin cool. ;)

[Poison]

Good tut, Veik, very good usage of filters.
I'd suggest one thing though:
Remove the plastic wrap effects from the background/clouds, since you use it to give architecture and persons a wet look, which the clouds don't need.

And to get straight lines when doing those extra raindrops, click on one point of the pic, where you want the line to start, hold shift and click where you want the line to end. This will automatically make a straight line which should look better (rain not falling in curves and such).

[coldcut]

Awesome. Thanks Veik.

[BLACK-RAGE]

Well its 4am jus got done giving it a whirl, it came out ok but ill work on it till i got a better feel for it. :P

thx for tips :)

http://www.shides.com/lord/tryrain1orig.jpg

http://www.shides.com/lord/tryrain1.jpg

[Solos]

The drawn on rain didn't blend in at all, it was just white lines on the top. So i gaussian blurred it a bit.

http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/9091/iciclesrain2cv.jpg

[Malibu Sally]

This thread is important enough to get stickied, I think. :)

*eyes the red, orange, yellow, and green named peoples*

[Tarkenchi]

albeit, I went overkill on the effects I like it... :D

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/4113/wooo0wr.jpg

[Malibu Sally]

Veik, you should post that tutorial over on Good Tutorials (http://www.good-tutorials.com/). It looks a whole lot nicer and more detailed than the collection of rain tuts they currently have. :)

[Lawmaker]

heh, but that would require him to share with *even more people* !!

Can't have that... it was hard enough getting him to share it with us!! :p

[Quakester]

I actually was planning on stickieing this thread but if I remember correctly, Veik said he wasn't going to leave this tutorial up forever. the others he is planning he wold leave up, just not the rain.

[Grae Knight]

I love it Veik, I will try it this weekend and see what I can come up with.

[Yin]

W00t! Love it. Will try it this weekend sometime. Hopefully it's compatible with Photoshop Elements I got.

[Overbite]

Awesome, glad it's helping. And great job on your rain guys. POST MORE!

And yes this tutorial on Rain will only be up until January 1st!!!!


Solos:
You could try this. INstead of drawing your rain on the layer you added the noise to. Copy and past your original screenshot over the noise layer. draw your raindrops then blur than in that layer window make it Lighten. You may have to take your eraser and remove some of the dark colors around your character but it will make your rain come out more. HOnestly though I thought yours came out wonderful!

It's all about trying new things to get the effect you want. BEcause the lighting may be different you may have to go a different route than what is shown.

Tark:
Looks like you left your Opacity layer option at !00% ;)

Poison:
Straight, curved, oesn't matter. if you want to show wind You want the curves. Tark's is a good example. I rushed mine to make the tutorial. THe plastic can easily be removied from the area it's not needed with the eraser...Like I stated. I didn't remove it all so I could move on to the next stage.

[G-Nome]

Good stuff Veik, keep'em comming buddy.

[Megumiko]

Shows how very little I know about using Photoshop for anything but a digital canvas.

Very cool, Veik. Thanks for sharing!

Edit: Okay, couldn't resist trying this technique out right now. So, here's my try.

As if the Clockwork King weren't bad enough....

http://myweb.usf.edu/~lekeller/raintest.jpg

... just add rain!

[Quakester]

Nice work Megumiko! Ominous! Now Babbage is scary AND depressing. ;)

[Tarkenchi]

Oooh! Hey! i got mentioned Twice by veikira, im uber! :cool: Yes, I left the opacity up cause it gave the really "Dark" look i was hoping for. :D

[Megumiko]

Nice work Megumiko! Ominous! Now Babbage is scary AND depressing. ;)


That's Babbage? Oh, shoot. Yes it is.

But thanks Quake. I have some rain hitting the roof and not the shoulder of Babbage, which looks odd. I'd fix it but I saved the "finished" product as a jpg, and didn't save the working .psd. Oops, again!

But I really like the rain effect it's very, very cool. Thanks again, Veik!

[suburbanhell]

I'm gonna sticky this thread, Thanks for the tips Veik.

[Solos]

If you want to be looking vertically up into rain you could try using Blur>Radial Blur>Zoom. I've not tried it but it will make the rain fall to earth rather than it going sideways.

[Lawmaker]

:) this thread is like a gummi yo-yo

unsticky... sticky... unsticky... sticky... :lol:


Very cool tutorial, nonetheless.

[Overbite]

Almost Finished with my Inking Tut. This one is rather small but should do the trick.

[Overbite]

Basic Inking: Veik's way...
There are several ways to ink a drawing. Some use pen, some use paint, and some use the digital method. In my opinion digital inking is much cleaner.

Some digital inkers may do it differently, but here is a simple tutorial on how I ink both my art and the art for others. Also note that I use a mouse, if you use a tablet there might be a better way, if so...do it!

Again I use Photoshop 7, your commands and tools may be different.
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FIRST-What the **** will ya ink?
Of course you need something to ink. So upload your program and Open up your drawing!
In this case I am going to ink a drawing by a friend of mine. This is Nightcrawler by raheight.
http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=012tc.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/01.jpg
Then Copy and paste your drawing in a new layer. Your background layer should now be blank.
http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=024by.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/02.jpg
Now, in your layer window simply turn down the opacity to about 40-50%.
http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=033dx.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/03.jpg
Select your background layer in your layers window. This is the layer in which you are going to ink.
http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=044ey.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/04.jpg

SECOND - Time to INK!
Select your Polygonal Lasso tool from the tray.
http://img383.imageshack.us/my.php?image=053yk.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/05.jpg
With the lasso you are going to select an area. You may have to click several times to go around curves.
(Imageshack is down, no link provided)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/06.jpg
Then take your brush and fill it in. The larger your brush the easier it may be. I usually select the soft brush option, kinda has a blur'd outline..It's #9-300 in my program.
(imageshack is down, no link provided)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/07.jpg
Keep selecting your area with your lasso until you finish inking your entire drawing. Once you are finished in the layers window select the layer in which your drawing is. And you can either brin ghte opacity to 0% and save or click on the 'eye' icon beside the layer and it will disapear then save.
(Imageshack is down, no link provided.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/08.jpg

And that's how I ink...

[Tarkenchi]

Cooooool veik! thanks alot for posting that man! :D

[Yin]

Veik pwnz! Thanks, man!

[ThunderMace]

Here is my character Donner with the rain effects.
Of course I couldn't have a character named thunder (Donner is Thunder in German), without a lightning bolt, so I threw one in...
http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/9953/donner7hf.jpg

[Solos]

Once you make your selection with the lasooo tool you can just Ctrl+Backspace to fill the area. Might save you a bit of time switching tool and brushing over it.

[Overbite]

But...My brush. :|

That thunderbolt looks awesome. I just use the outer glow feature for mine. :grr:

[Overbite]

Beginers coloring class to start one day. Just need to finish my drawing first... :rolleyes:

[Stan Walker]

Viek thank you so much for posting this..i recently aquired the photoshop program myself and cant wait to try it out..i also eagerly await your coloring tutorial. thanks again bud. The only problem im having is when i copy the layer my backround layer is not blank the picture is still there

-Stan

[Overbite]

You can go over it with the brush with the color white to remove it or use your eraser. ;)

[Sebastian Kain]

:) this thread is like a gummi yo-yo

unsticky... sticky... unsticky... sticky... :lol:


Very cool tutorial, nonetheless.

Yea that was my bad. I sticky and unsticky several times over..

[Overbite]

I sticky and unsticky several times over..

If I had the mind and savvy of Krypto, I might take advantage of this quote... :chuckle:

[suburbanhell]

Hey Veik out of curiosity, which brush do you take History or regular Brush tool -- I'm having a bit of difficulty with that, but the history brush tool looks somewhat correct...

[Overbite]

Just the brush.

Rain Effect Removed...hope you saved it, took notes, or took snapshots because it's gone...

CG Tut to be loaded soon....

[Krypto]

If I had the mind and savvy of Krypto, I might take advantage of this quote... :chuckle:

Hehe :P

[Overbite]

Basic Coloring for Beginers

What makes a drawing complete is the colors. If the mood fits sometimes simple black and white works, but most of the time you need some nice colors to finish off your art.

Here is a quick, simple tutorial on coloring with Photoshop. I'm only going to color a section of my drawing.

FIRST
You need a drawing! In my case we have Justice Prime! Open up photoshop. Cut and Paste your drawing so it has it's own layer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/1.jpg

THEN
In your layers window. you are going to select "Multiply". (The layer your drawing is in)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/2.jpg

SECOND
In the layers window Select the blank layer, this is were we are going to place our colors.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/3.jpg

THEN
Now we need some colors don't we. In your tools tray there should be two squares near the bottom with colors. Clock on them to open up your color tablet and choose the BASE color you want, in my case my base Colors are Blue, Red, and (skin). You don't need to set them both, just one will do.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/4.jpg
Select your brush and lets get ready to lay down some colors.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/5.jpg
When you select to use your brush you will have a little tab at the top of your screen, says 'brush' with a black example of the brush chosen. Click on that and choose the brush of your choice. I recommend going for the hard edge one, we don't want any soft edges just yet. The Size? doesn't matter, I recommend about 30. you want a large enough brush so that your not filling in for hours on end.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/6.jpg

AFTER THAT
Start laying your color down. Don't worry about going outside the lines. We can fix that later.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/7.jpg
Once you've finish laying down that base color, you need to save it. Simply take your brush and click on any area outside your figure. You could also open up a brand new blank page and keep your colors in there, then minimize and open it whenever you need it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/8.jpg

THIRD
Apply what you've learned to choose your next base color. (if your Character doesn't have one skip down to shading) .
This is were it starts to be important to stay in the lines. Specially on the inside of your character. What I do is from my Tool Tray I select my Polygonal Lasso......
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/9.jpg
and I'll select an area I wish to throw down my secondary BASE color. This doesn't have to be perfect, and you dont need to select an entire detail on your character, just one section at a time. Then break out your brush and fill in your secondary base color. Continue this threw your whole drawing...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/10.jpg

FOURTH
Once you've layed all your base colors down it's time to give it some demension by adding light to shadow. This is pretty simple. Remember those colors you saved? Yup, time to break them back out. You have an EyeDrop tool at the bottom of your tool tray, select it and click on a base color.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/11.jpg

THEN
Remember how you had to open up your color pallet to select a color? Click on the color square at the bottom of your Tool tray to open up this color tablet. An area is already circled. Just go about 5cm higher, your selecting a lighter color that your base, not too light though...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/12.jpg

[Overbite]

NOW
Select your brush and this time we want a soft brush. Unless you want to CELL SHADE.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/13.jpg
Now lay them down in of your figure. NOTE: If you have a light source in mind think about that as you lay your colors down, if your light is coming from above your figure then instead of laying your brush in the center of a detail you want to make it more to the top.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/14.jpg

HOW?
At this point I bet your thinking...ok, now how the **** do I shade the secondary BASE color ass hole? PRetty simple... Select your polygonal lasso again and do the same thing as before, protect one color from another.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/15.jpg

RINCE AND REPEAT
Continue this threwout your figure. Once you are threw go one step lighter with your colors and do it again! You can repeat this process as many times as you want.

THEN
Once your threw select your smudge tool from the tool tray. Now it's time to blend in the colors. Lookin Good Eh? :)P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/16.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/17.jpg
FITH and FINALLY
Clean up your mess. This is pretty simple as well. Select your Polygonal Lasso(This is your friend). Select an area outside your figure. Then select the color WHITE and with your brush remove the unwanted color. Continue this threw your drawing.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/18.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/19.jpg


Gratz!
You now have a pretty damn good peice of artwork infront of ya! Of course there are other ways of coloring, and other things you can do. This is a basic coloring tutorial, how much detail is up to you...

Example:
*I added a sheen with my brush with the color white, soft brush, selecting an area with my lasso then blending
*I copied and pasted the bottom half of the arm, chose Multiply from my Layer options, blur'd it and turn the opacity down.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/20.jpg

OR
Strong Secondary Light Source.
*I copied and pasted my color layer selected my lasso and outlined the places i wanted my strong light source then filled it in with a soft brush
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v297/veikira/21.jpg


Have fun, and SHOW OF YOUR COLORS!

[Yin]

Thanks, Veik! You rock!

[Lawmaker]

Thanks for the guide Veik!

Shadowing and creating light on a flat color has always been my greatest enemy (hence I cel shade most things, and not that well either! :lol: )

But the tips here are very appreciated! You make it seem so simple. :p
I'll definetly work your methods into my future coloring attempts... but knowing my mistake prone self, I think I'll still have to use 5000 layers so i don't goof up the parts i managed to make look good! hehehe. Don't know how you so bravely do everything on one layer... ;)

[suburbanhell]

Gave this a shot with the sketch Sunstar is doing for Nurse Red Cross, came out a lot better than most of my "I'm using electric crayons" coloring jobs...though I couldn't figure out the shading technique so it's pretty much just the two base colors...

http://home.comcast.net/%7Epatuleia/redcross2color.jpg

Oh yeah and I forgot to clean up my base colors so there's a couple blotches on the bottom right...

[Overbite]

Still looks great. All you need to do to add the shading is choose a lighter color than your base color then apply it (If you have a red base choose a lighter red), then smudge it to make it smooth.

I got a webcam thing for christmas. I might be able to just make Video Tutorials if I can learn how the damn thing works....

[Kinetix]

Veik, great tutorial. It's going to help me a lot. 1 question and 1 comment.

Do you ever shadow of just use the base as the darkest color?

When you have your brush tool you can riht click ont he canvas to bring up the brush settings/selection screen.

:) Thanks again

[Stan Walker]

Veik another great tutorial..im gonna try to fiddle with it and get good at it.. youve inspired a lot of us brother...this entitles you to unlimited free haircuts at the Stan Walker barber shop :)

[Overbite]

Veik, great tutorial. It's going to help me a lot. 1 question and 1 comment.

Do you ever shadow of just use the base as the darkest color?

When you have your brush tool you can riht click ont he canvas to bring up the brush settings/selection screen.

:) Thanks again


1Yes i go darker. You can use the brush or do it the way I did in the tutorial at the bottom in the last 2 segments

2Kickass

[Overbite]

The next TuT may not be as usefull to some. But I'll show you how I add a background to my drawings. I did start drawing a BG myself for the Justice Prime art but got lazy mid way threw...I hate drawing BG's...

I'm going to try and make this one a downloadable video...got a webcam for X-mas.

Oh and happy B-Day Kin.... :p

[Poison]

Nice tut, Veik. This is where I work completely different than you.

My basic layer set-up is:

[Shine] - normal - This is where I put flares, FX, everything over the black lines
[Lineart] - multiply - All the lineart
[Shades] - multiply - The shadows
[Highlights] - screen - Lighter colors
[Colors] - normal - The basic color layer
[Flats] - normal - A layer where all important elements have a color of their own, so I can easily select them with the magic wand

Depending on the pic, I might have several different layer sets. In Cryogentic's pic, for example, I had above collection of layers once for Cryo in the front, Kryo in the mirror, the mirror and wall and one for the background seen in the mirror, with one last layer showing the cracks of the mirror between Cryo and Kryo.
That way you can handle different lightning better, blur things out (like Sally's Devoured, another separate layer set), etc.

Also, the smudge tool doesn't work well when you're working on a 16 inch high 300dpi pic, since it has a kind of RAM-cause lag.

[Overbite]

Remember this is a begining Tutorial...just basic stuff. This isn't really how I color now. ;)

I try and keep as much as I can in one layer. I still make myself some though. So yeah we're pretty different. :p But still the same outcome.

[Yin]

I bet none of this works in Adobe Photoshop Elements. I've been trying to download the regular Photoshop off of Limewire, but I keep getting virus infected ones. It's only a matter of time.

[Poison]

Remember this is a begining Tutorial...just basic stuff. This isn't really how I color now. ;)

I try and keep as much as I can in one layer. I still make myself some though. So yeah we're pretty different. :p But still the same outcome.
Yeah, true, I was going too far. When I started coloring digitally, I actually did it the way you described, more or less. Also using the *shudder* burn tool.
I try to have as few layers as possible, but end up with dozens, cause I like to jump back and forth and work on details without having to redo the whole pic.

[ThunderMace]

I bet none of this works in Adobe Photoshop Elements. I've been trying to download the regular Photoshop off of Limewire, but I keep getting virus infected ones. It's only a matter of time.

Actually Thresh, almost all of this works in Elements. I have both but USe Elements more for it's ease of use and simpler interface.

[Yin]

Woo! Thanks, Thundermace! :D This makes me smile. Heh.

[Kinetix]

If you uh, want me to hook you up Thresh....AIM....

[suburbanhell]

Prez asked me to color this while I was working on Novastryke's Creyfile today so here goes.

http://home.comcast.net/%7Epatuleia/PrezColorResized.jpg

[Sebastian Kain]

Fanastic!1!!!one :sk:

[Quakester]

Thanks a ton Veik! Now I have about a thousand or so pencils to go back over and try to ink and color...see you all in a few years. :)

One less thanks to Burby! :p

[Overbite]

Prez asked me to color this while I was working on Novastryke's Creyfile today so here goes.

http://home.comcast.net/%7Epatuleia/PrezColorResized.jpg

**** that looks kick ass!

SK must be a badass for taking Liono's sword from him. :)

[Overbite]

What else can I show?

Anything I've done you'd like to know about?

[Sebastian Kain]

What else can I show?

Anything I've done you'd like to know about?

Hmmm...

I could possibly go with just some basic Photoshop for Dummies knowledge. Nothing overly complicated or I won't even try to read it. (Yes I can't read nOObs).

Just some useful tips that I'm trying to use to put this USS comic thingy together.

Like picture over picture overlay, cutting out pictures and placing over different backgrounds.

Simple stuff like that, if you consider it simple.

Then again my request is prolly vague. :|

[suburbanhell]

Hmm...lighting effects I suppose, i.e. the glare in positron's mask in your avatar, sun reflections, lightning, etc?

[D'Arkaine]

energy effects would be the biggy for me :)

[Heather]

energy effects would be the biggy for me :)

Seconded, I'm working on something that would benifit from that tut :)

Speaking of that....
Should I post the Inks before I head to colors for critques?

[Megumiko]

I was just preparing some line art for coloring and was following what I normally do, which is : select the gray channel (image is in grayscale at this point), then invert selection (select tab--->inverse or shift+contrl+i when it works), then flooding a new layer with the selection.

I recalled that you simply multiply the line art layer.

What's the difference? Or is there one?

Seems less time consuming to do what you do, and, thus, more efficient. So I am curious.

Thanks! :)

[Yin]

How you phase pictures with one another. Make them all transparent with that gritty effect. That'd be cool.

[Megumiko]

So that would mean that the line art layer would blend in more with the colors, right?

[Poison]

Since Veik isn't around:
anything that has to do with cutting out lines when they're not in bitmap mode (only pure black and pure white) gives them a halo. This doesn't happen with a multiplied layer, since the underlying color values are added to the black (and greys), mixing them, so to speak.

Another, more advanced possibiliy is taking the line art layer and creating an alpha channel with it. Same effect, more complicated IMO. And you cannot simply edit the lines, should you need to (and I like to do that a lot while coloring).

[Megumiko]

I was hoping either you or Veik would answer, Poison. :)

I think I missed a step when I explianed what I do. Once I have inverted the selected gray channel, I make a new layer and flood fill the selected areas.

I got this method out of the Photoshop 5.5 Wow! Book. Of course, now there is no black channel in newer versions of Photoshop.

But the end result is that I have a layer with just the lines and nothing more. Everything but the lines is entirely transparent. Also, this method allows for manipulation of the line art as needed.

It seems to me, the difference is that the line art in my technique is entirely opaque while multiplying the line art layer means that the line art would somewhat transparent. And I could see where this would be wanted because line art that is too bold might detract from the color.

Does that interpretation sound accurate?

[Overbite]

Yeah Sorry for the lack of posts. I got new hours at work and getting on during the week is next to inpossible. I got some overtime this morning so I'm pretty awake...

Any questions posted can be answered by other forum members ofcourse. Not going to get selfish, after all, it's a tutorial thread. ;)

But yeah sorry to say don't expect much action from me until weekends...

[Poison]

Megumiko, I didn't understand the "grey" part in your first post, but I think I did now. The multiply layer only works for black lines, of course! Lines of any other color will multiply with the color(s) of the layers beneath, becoming darker and darker to a complete black.
To use line art of any non-black color, you'd have to create them on an else transparent layer (which is what you do, I think).

[Megumiko]

I think I understand...

If you multiply a layer with just black line art, it will NOT blend with lower layer colors because it is black?

If that is correct, my process is a more complex way to get the same result? But it can be used (and would work better) with line art that is not black.

Thanks a bunch! I appreciate help from all of you who are more proficient with the technical aspects of Photoshop. :)

[Poison]

Exactly. In color multiplication you could give the colors a number, white being 0 and black being 100 (max). All colors rank in between, depending on their brightness and saturation. The lower the number they have, the more opaque they are, white being completely transparent. The rank of your color on your multiplying layer is multiplied with the rank of the color beneath, becoming darker and darker until it becomes black.
So black is the only color that won't change when multiplied with others.

I know that was pretty wish-wash, but I hope it made the process understandable.

[Yin]

For some reason in Elements, I'm not getting that soft blurred edge. It appears to be hard egde. It's not coming out right. -_-;

[Poison]

Soft blurred edge with what tool?
If you're using the brush, you can choose what kind of brush (softer or harder edge). The pencil only has a hard edge (no anti aliasing).
http://www.onetwomax.de/newsimg/2005/04/15/thumb_1113591216_Das_Brush_und_Pencil_Werkzeug_in_ Photoshop1.gif
If you're using any lasso, make sure you are not feathering, but have Anti Aliasing checked.
http://www.elated.com/tutorials/graphics/photoshop/selecting/images/feather_option.gifhttp://www.elated.com/tutorials/graphics/photoshop/selecting/images/antialias_option.gif
You find all those tool options in the menu bar at the top.

Btw, a nice little pic I found about what I posted before:
http://www.extropia.com/tutorials/photoshop/pencil_options.gif

[Yin]

Thanks, P! I found the brush option. :D

[The Icy One]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/TheIceyOne/skprogress.jpg

I know how much people like progress images.. heres mine, whatcha think Veik?

Edit: Done.. here, let me know how it looks V.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/TheIceyOne/PresSK.jpg

[Red Nile]

So, I've started colouring an inked pic and it's going pretty well so far. I was wondering about the polygonal lasso...is there a way to remove the last point that you clicked on without cancelling the entire selection?

[Poison]

By holding alt and selecting, you can substract a selection from an existing one. By holding shift, you can add a new selection.

[Red Nile]

That adds or subtracts a new lassoed area though, right? What I mean is, as you're clicking through to make your selection, one of the points you click on is off from where you wanted it. So all I want to do is back out of that one point I clicked on, without finishing and closing off the selection, so that I can click a new point instead and continue with my polygon. Does that make sense? Is that doable, or do I have to close off the selection and then fix the finished polygon by adding or subtracting from it?

[Poison]

Oh, right. What I do is make a spike, meaning that I retrace with the lasso to where my last correct click was and then continue correctly. Later I subtract the spike from my selection.

[Gollum_ARG]

IMAGE

I know how much people like progress images.. heres mine, whatcha think Veik?

Edit: Done.. here, let me know how it looks V.

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Hey Icy... That's very nice. I would suggest adding more contrast. Like adding a darker dark color, and/or a lighter light color. But its very nice. I would do this especially on the coat as leather-like coats tend to be more shiny...

Great work.. keep it up. :)

[Red Nile]

Doing the spike thing works great, Poison. And it often just doesn't become part of the selected polygon at all so you don't have to subtract it. Thanks!

[Overbite]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/TheIceyOne/skprogress.jpg

I know how much people like progress images.. heres mine, whatcha think Veik?

Edit: Done.. here, let me know how it looks V.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v106/TheIceyOne/PresSK.jpg

Sorry, late on this.

Very nice mate, that actually turned out better than mine did. lol!

[Overbite]

Making your own textures. Soon to come.
Also creating aura and energy blasts to come...

[Kinetix]

Ooo, I need these.

[D'Arkaine]

sweet

[Overbite]

Aura Tut will be up in 2 to 3 weeks. Atm I'm drawing a figure for it. Once I'm finished I'll start on it. Sorry for the wait...

For the textures I'll be showing how I create my metal (seems to be the most asked for).

Aura is a bit difficult and the steps change depending on the background of your artwork (darker the BG the better). So keep that in mind.

Again, sorry for the wait to anyone who's been keeping an eye on this thread.

[Kinetix]

Can't wait. :)

[jose1011]

Wow, nice pictures. I wish my sprites were good enough to trade for one. Geez.

[Snakebite]

Hey T!M you gonna be posting any new TuT's bro?

I'd love to see one on alternate light sources heh I juat can't figure out how to do those :P

Plus the two you mentioned above would be awsome to see :)

[T!M]

I'm thinking about making a video tutorial. However, I can't turn my webcam to record my monitor, so It be just me talking with screencaptures and be explaining threwout the movie.

Would anyone be interested? I'll just cover the basic things first inking and coloring. Then go on to advanced coloring or whever...I'll probably stop with just inking and coloring.

[Snakebite]

dude I'd be soo interested :) oh and mabey a hair tut and alternate light sources...I need HELP!!!!! :lol: You are the best, teach away oh wise one :)

[Gollum_ARG]

T!M I'm pretty sure you can find some Screen video capture software for free around the net somewhere.

You should do a hair and Aura/energy effects tutorial. :cool:

EDIT: Here. http://www.brothersoft.com/Multimedia_Graphics_Screen_Capture_CamStudio_3944. html haven't tried it. Just did a quick Google. I'm sure there are other like that.

[T!M]

Appriciate it but no thanks. Unless I see it advertised on tv I'm not about to download random programs I've never heard of on my computer. ;)

[Gollum_ARG]

Well. I'll try it.

[Gollum_ARG]

I tried it. It's actually pretty neat. I just went and recorded didn't play with the settings. You can also record sound from a microphone and add text.

I'll edit this with a link to the video in a second. :|

EDIT:: http://youtube.com/watch?v=l8Ml25cEavc it works for it purpose. Me thinks.

[T!M]

Interesting. Hehe, thanks for braving the program. I'll check it out and use it.

[T!M]

Ok, got it. Expect the Tut sometime after I finish the Guru colors.

[iggy880]

T!M I'm pretty sure you can find some Screen video capture software for free around the net somewhere.

You should do a hair and Aura/energy effects tutorial. :cool:

EDIT: Here. http://www.brothersoft.com/Multimedia_Graphics_Screen_Capture_CamStudio_3944. html haven't tried it. Just did a quick Google. I'm sure there are other like that.

I'd love an aura and energy tutorial as I'm finally getting into doing inks and colors, it's just something I'd love to do and video would help. Also, I think a video color tutorial would be cool, for those of us(me a little) who would like to see the shading and adding lighting effects andsuch a bit better.

[Gollum_ARG]

Ok, got it. Expect the Tut sometime after I finish the Guru colors.

Cool. Glad I could help. *sits and waits for tutorials*

There are quite a bit of Camstudio video tests on Youtube. heh.

[Gold Rush]

Hell, I forgot about these. Need to study and try drawing again!

[Kenjifujima]

This isn't really how I color now

[NotaSpambotHonest]

thx for tips :)