How to get a smooth transition between colors?

[ceruleanvii]

based on your last image, it looks like you are varying your flow/opacity - enough of that usually does the trick, you just keep the opacity really low and pick pick pick colors and build up, and soon enough most of your hard transitions will be gone.

Photoshop doesn't have the blending tools that Painter does. But one thing I do in PS when I get a stubborn transition is to use the smudge tool with a special custom brush (broken up, kinda spattery) and the strength set really really low - this helps me blend my edges.

[3dj]

In addition to ceruleanvii's points, that I also agree completely with, is that you may want to convert the image to 16 bit. I find that when painting a lot of strokes to smooth transitions, you'll get banding in 8 bit that won't happen in 16 bit depth. Also, I highly recommend doing most retouching in the Lab color space. The gamut is huge and the blending of layers works unlike any other color space.

Lastly, sometimes to get rid of banding/artifacts, you need to add a small amount of gaussian noise. I usually go over board with it then do a command shift F right after running the filter to lower the amount to my liking.

-Jim

[CIM]

Set the brush's Opacity Jitter to Pen Pressure. You can do the same for Flow Jitter or just lower Flow to 50%.

Experiment and practice.

[DeadlyAppearanc]

Thanks for the reply.
Take a look at this small video. First he draw with blue, after with brown and it looks smoother then my trys.
He do this with the opacity? And which brush is he using? And why he don`t use the normal round brush?

Download part from a tutorial (http://rapidshare.com/files/122226597/mattepainting.wmv.html)

[DeadlyAppearanc]

Thank you for the tips!
My test with the cloud looks much better now. But i think the stanard hard brush is not the best chiose to draw a cloud.

But it looks like, that with the opacity works :)

http://www.realityworld.de/wolke.jpg

[thousandskies]

For a smooth transition I would use an air bursh from photoshop while activing the pen pressure on the opacity jitter.
Here's some tutorial that might helps:
http://tablefy.com/compare/556/First-Digital-Painting-Tutorial

good luck!

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