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Galadnilien In reply to deaxx [2016-09-25 19:04:26 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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Galadnilien In reply to barananduen [2016-09-13 02:43:16 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thanks!

When I shade white I usually start with the lightest color and then add slightly darker colors, usually only really ever getting as dark as midtones, sort of like when working in watercolor start with white and slowly deepen the colors. Also, I find that if you try to shade white all in the same color it turns out looking muddy and bland. In my experience it works out way better if your shadow tones are color shifted slightly, like highlights more yellow and shadows more blue or whichever color combos you want to go with. Something about changing up the shadow tones makes it look more like colored light rather than greyscale which helps the white-ness of an object really come across. I dunno if that might help knowing how I do it, but there you go. Oh, and if all else fails adjusting the Levels can really help without having to repaint everything. 

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barananduen In reply to Galadnilien [2016-09-13 03:04:16 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I did highlights tending to yellow-green and shadows tending to purple... and ended up with the whole thing being ... some weird color. It looks like a cookies-and-cream mix. I'm going to keep trying with levels; so far when I do that, the whole thing looks washed out. I really hope it works because I really don't want to have to reshade the whole thing. Especially since I really like the shading, just not the color! I've looked at some white-shaded pieces and noticed that there's little value variation between highlights and would-be-midtones, most of the shading being in the shadows. So I might be overshading it, too.
Thanks for the insight! It really helped!

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Galadnilien In reply to barananduen [2016-09-13 04:28:52 +0000 UTC]

hmmm, if you have the lightness/darkness values about right but it's the colors that are off you could try altering just that. If you fiddle around in the Levels you can change it and adjust it by select colors, RGB, one at a time. I only just figured that out the other day so i'm not great with it. I would normally go for the Color Balance for adjusting the highlight vs shadow colors, and maybe some Hue/Saturation to desaturate if the color gets too strong. If all else fails, I would definitely try desaturating totally and then adding color back via Color Balance etc before reshading the whole thing. You probably know all that. I frequently feel like I'm not using all the photoshop features to their full ability since I basically just taught myself through playing around. It's a feeling that's reineforced whenever I watch someone else draw in photoshop, it's like constantly finding out there are tools and tricks that would have saved me hours of work. It is fun to watch other people though, and hey new tricks that I can use now! I'm talking to you mr. magic eraser (my most recent, where have you been all my life handy friend).

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barananduen In reply to Galadnilien [2016-09-13 04:37:14 +0000 UTC]

*reads and nods, reads and nods* OK, I'll try that. Thank you! I'll export my skin layer (where the issue lies) into another file and fiddle with it there, to not overburden my now-temperamental computer with all the other layers. I've never tried that RGB thing in levels. I know it's there, but I've never used it. o.O I've used it in Curves, but not too often. Will check it out.   Hahaha yeah, same, what I've learned about digital painting has been through just messing around with Gimp. XD There's a magic eraser? There was a color eraser/replacer in MSPaint, and it was a lifesaver! It replaced what was one color with another color of your choosing. Is that what this one does?

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Galadnilien In reply to barananduen [2016-09-22 01:13:13 +0000 UTC]

Oh man, I keep forgetting to reply to this one. Nah, the magic eraser (it's one of the options under the eraser tab, like how you can choose the pen or paintbrush etc) doesn't replace colors as far as I know (though you could probably sort of do with with the magic wand and then fill) though it does erase all of a color in a contiguous area. It's great for erasing though, like if you have a line drawing of a bird and then add a layer with a color underneath, then you can use the magic eraser to erase all the area that's not a part of the bird. Like it's smart enough to use the lines as boundaries and so you can easily fill areas and erase spots you don't need that color. I used to just hand fill in all my line art etc with the paintbrush, like go fine around the edges to stay in the lines and then fill in with a bigger brush. Now between the magic eraser and my other new handy friend I save so much time. The other thing is the ability to select an area with the magic wand/or lasso it etc then go Select>Modify>Expand/Contract which will get you put in a pixel amount to do either of those. So while the magic wand has selected area in the line, you can expand the selected area to overlap with the center of the line, so when you fill it on a layer under the line layer there aren't any pesky transparent areas left. Like, those two tools were like huge huge helpers for me and make things go much much faster than my old way. 

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barananduen In reply to Galadnilien [2016-09-23 04:34:21 +0000 UTC]

Huh. Next time I open the program, I'll check and see if the eraser has options. That's pretty cool!
I do have the Grow/Shrink Selection option, though I've only used that for geometrical shapes, like if I want a circle that's hollow in the middle. But yes! I can image it would really help with working with lineart, to speed things up!

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Galadnilien In reply to whitefoxdesigns [2016-09-11 05:44:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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whitefoxdesigns In reply to Galadnilien [2016-09-11 20:25:57 +0000 UTC]

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