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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: |
![]() I have a quick question. I'm trying to find a way to make a smoother transition between colours and tones when painting in PS. Some of you say not to use the blur tool or the smudge tool but I can't seem to make shading nice and smooth without resorting to one of them. I don't have problem shading using a pencil and paper, but this is different and I haven't got the hang of it yet. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Oblivion |
![]() Lower opacity, and brush hardness to 0% |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: AČ, MI, USA |
![]() I'm still learning, but textured brushes work very well for blending. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
![]() Yep - textured brushes, lowered opacity, various blending modes (for the actual brush). |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Cell 666 |
![]() What I tend to do is set my opacity to somewhere around 25%-35% and then I paint on some overlays. After that, I'll sample the colors in between two overlays and paint it in the middle. Rinse and repeat as desired and it gets pretty fluid. |
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: the Psychiatric Ward |
![]() the Alt key is simply put... a life saver. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: buttcrack of the midwest |
![]() For smooth transitions, I use a method like synaxs`. Much like the grey overlays in the upper right corner of your example, just overlay the *seams* with inbetween shades at lower opacities and soft brushes. This can be done by sampling the color at the seam and reducing opacity. Then do it again with the seams you make doing that. Repeat as necessary. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: The Land of one Headlight on. |
![]() This should be archived I think. Don't know if it rates as a faq...but certainly in the archives. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: |
![]() Wow! Significant difference using opacity and textured brushes. I can't believe how much easier this is than what I was doing. I don't even want to say how I was going about it before, lol. I haven't even tried the different blending modes yet I'm so happy with the lowered opacity results. |
Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Dublin, Ireland |
![]() Craig Mullins (goodbrush.com) said never to use a soft brush also , but I personally recon the tool is there use it in moderation(small doses here and there) and your fine. But thats not what Im posting .. to get your blends smooth paint at a high res and resize if you can. Or else just indicate shading with a hard brush and keep working it with thick hard brushes at low opacity. |
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: *land |
![]() Ya... shy away from the softies.. quote:
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Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
![]() Yup..I'll repeat it too: stay away from the blur/smudge tools. Smudge has it's uses - and often times very good ones - but for general painting purposes it is ugly, cumbersome, and cheesy. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: Cell 666 |
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Maniac (V) Mad Scientist From: *land |
![]() ^ *cough* too bad you don't ever paint *cough* |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: under the bed |
![]() You fucking panzies with tablets... |
Lunatic (VI) Mad Scientist From: the Psychiatric Ward |
![]() *cough* Michael... get off your chicken butt and back to yer wacom *cough* |