Colouring in photoshop [question]

#1

Hey guys.

So yeh, i’m still working on learning to colour my images.

I’m now using the brush tool + smudge tool quite a lot. But i feel that it is very slow and it doesn’t really give me the effects i want.

At deviantart, i got a few directions from somebody whom i asked. He said : “Use different brush modes”. So i’ve been trying around with that, but i can’t really figure out how to use that.

So i’m really wondering: How can i use these brush modes to colour my images fast?

I’ve been searching a lot, but i don’t seem to encounter that which i seek. I’m using photoshop CS4 with a Wacom intuos3 a4 format.

Thanks for your time, and i hope you will help me :slight_smile:

#2

put your brush settings on pen pressure (hope you’ve found that out)
and play around with opacity. Hope that will work.

#3

Hey, thanks.

I had spotted that setting, but it was automatically set for me so i didn’t pay much attention to it.

I think that one of the things i need to figure out for myself is what the brush modes exacly do - this is one of the things that are unclear to me. If i know that, and how they interact, it might be much easier for me :slight_smile:

#4

It will be hard at first, just learn slightly on.
And read from time to time in the F1 functionality :slight_smile:

-Tom

#5

Hmm,
i still think there is a tutorial about colouring with different brush modes - somewhere. But i can’t find it :frowning:

If anybody knows one - please, take the time to point me where it is.

Meanwhile, i will experiment on and try to find it myself.

thanks for your time!

#6

I’m not sure how you mean “quickly” - if you want to just lay on color - color on a separate layer and have the layer in overlay or some other mode so that your shading etc doesn’t get lost. Everyone works differently though and you may feel that coloring directly on the drawing is better - set your pen mode to overlay, add, hardlight or even color to apply color to your drawing and not loose any of the shading or line drawn effects.

I work differently however. I usually start with a pencil/pen sketch, create a layer for the drawing itself - fill with 50% grey and then use a combination of the brush, and the dodge and burn tools to create the highlights and such (with the layer in overlay mode). I sometimes have a number of those layers going on to create my paintings - to color it though I do create seperate layers for the colors and I use the layer modes to lay on the color. I also use a combination of layer masks and vector masks to hide/mask parts that I’m not using. A good place for tutorials on digital painting is www.3dtotal.com. Another place to get tutorials along those lines is Ballistic Publishing.

However you paint - it is never a quick and painless task. The most that you can hope for is to isolate portions or items and mask them out and then apply an adjustment layer to that item with Hue-Saturation. Here’s a tutorial on how to change color for SL, but it can be applied to various methods for digital painting. http://www.suztv.com/SL-ClothesColoring/Howtocoloryourclothes.html

#7

http://www.carloscabrera.com.ar/tutorial.html

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955

These are some great tutorials on color , you also might buy the Gnomon DVD on light and color, it’s a charm.

#8

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