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 Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 5:33 pm
I could use some real tips on cg and coloring skills in either paint shop pro or adobe. With your style, do you dodge and burn or does doing an entire new layer work better? Help...
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:29 pm
Well it depends on the look you want. Dodge and burn make for quick and easy Shading and lighting. You cannot dodge and burn on a separate layer than your color that you want to burn so be careful with it and make sure the undo button becomes your best friend, especially if you think you did something wrong. You could also just go over the dodged or burned area with the original color if that works better and start over again.
Though Dodge and Burn do not give as much depth as if you were to use complementary colors and many other colors in the shading and light areas. If you do the multiple colors its best to work with a lot of layers so if you mess up you wont have to erase all of your hard work.
I hope that helps a little. I'm not a professional but I think it gets the job done quite nicely.
Good Luck and happy CGing -^____^-
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:48 pm
You should use doge and burn sparingly, perhaps even not at all when you start out. It would be better to actually learn proper shading and highlighting rather than trying to get a tool to do it for you. It tends to look cheap and amateur if not handled right.
Layers are very handy, and make it so much easier to correct mistakes, change certain colours, and play with oppacity. You should at least have your line art on a seperate layer over your colouring layers. That way you don't colour over the lineart and you can keep things looking neat and clean.
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:03 pm
I hardly use dodge and burn tools
except only when I want to add some highlight on the finished piece.
besides the picture might turn out too dark or too bright... and it could make the color distorted if it's used wrongly.
I prefer the method of creating multiple layer heart
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:33 pm
thanks everybody. your tips were useful and i will keep them in mind when i color. 4laugh
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:40 am
Something I've just started doing recently is using one color as a "shadow" color -- a dark maroon, purple, blue, etc. -- and then making a gradient between the base color -- skin, eyes, hair, etc. -- and using that for shading. It gives a unifying feel to the whole picture, and it also helps with color schemes. I don't like using the dodge or burn tools at all, mainly because it creates unrealistic shadows and highlights. You can also create black shadows with it, which can dull down your picture if used improperly. Also, I always create a new layer for shading, especially if I'm doing cell-shading. If it's soft-color (paint like), I tend to paint directly on the base layer.
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:51 pm
LOL I like to use multiple layers by changing the opacity of each layer... Mm, I used to use a whole lot of black and white when shading and highlighting but someone told me to stop that and start using a darker variation of the color... which is better? Anyhow, dodge/burn is what I used to use before I got bored of that flare look. Dodge and burn is actually pretty helpful in simplifying really complicated pics.
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