Comic CUTS Coloring...

[roel]

I'm not sure if I know what cuts coloring is, but a have an idea of what it might be...

I think it's done with Photoshop. You just make selections (cuts) and then use the airbrush tool. Shouldn't be too hard after a bit of practice.

[Matt]

I believe the second response is on the right track...

I've tried it but it still doesn't look as good.

Cuts is the coloring technique that was popularized by Image comics... It looks SHARP...

Here's an example: http://www.makotierra.com/temp70.jpg (By Kevin Bentz)

[dmcgrath]

I think what they are doing (above) is using multiple colors in the same range. Then its a mater of smaller and smaller selection patterns to show light variation. It looks like a pretty neat technique. Matt, go get the Forum Fun (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22080) coloring thing and see if you can work it out. Teaching yourself is harder, but maybe you'll make your own technique up as you go along.

[Kananga]

Ive got a tutorial on this in an old Photoshop3 WOW book. If I recall the technique involves lassoing areas and building up the shading on a greyscale layer (set to multiply probably) and then building up the colour on a seperate layer again.

Obviously, the trick to getting the style you see in that image relys alot on the greyscale bit, and picking out interesting shapes to create the specular highlights. Or something like that.

[Kananga]

He worked on a layer set to normal mode, with preserve transparency ON.

In the gradient tool options pallete he set up a foreground to background ((black to white) gradient in multiply mode. Then he lassoed shapes and applied Linear and Radial fills.

Your lassoing doesnt have to be precise at the outer edges of the line art, because Preserve Transparency will keep the fills from going outside the outline. By using the number keys on the keyboard to vary the opacity of the fills, and by starting and ending the gradients outside the lassoed areas, you can get a wide variety of gray fill effects.

He then used hue/saturation on that grayscale layer to create the colour.

Its an old tutorial, and this may not make sense because its out of context of the whole tutorial. But the final effect looks exactly like the image style.

(I grabbed some of this directly from that tutorial in that book. Copyright to the Photoshop WOW book publishers, just in case)

[d_hansbury]

http://www.comiccolors.com/index1.html

They have tutorials on "cuts" and "flattening"

[Sleepless]

hmm...always wondered how they did that. Thanks for bringing it up matt. Might have to try a bit myself.:lightbulb

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