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motorsep

03-12-2006, 05:48 PM

How digital artists get smooth transition between color shades when they render vehicles or characters in Photoshop? When I put base color and then use airbrush and lighter shades of base color to create highlights, I still can see unevenness and edges of that lighter color over the base color :(
And all images around the Web mabe by professionals have that smooth look to it. What tool should I use and what parameters of that tool should I have to tweak? Where can I look up right technique?
Thank you.

P.S. I use Wacom Graphire 3 tablet.

Dave Black

03-15-2006, 06:09 PM

There are a couple of ways to do it.

Here's a great tutorial:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=18980

Also, using Photoshop CS or above, you can use a special blender tool. Learn how to make it here, and also alot of great tutorials on digital painting:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259286&page=1&pp=15

That should get you blending in no time.

If you have questions, please feel free to ask.

-Dave

motorsep

03-15-2006, 06:41 PM

thanks! I appreciate it.

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