2012 - guide: colouring - ways to make it happen.

[raiindust]

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[wandererjulia]

omg wow this is really amazing!

[fouroux]

this is awesome, inspiring and very helpful :D

[absolutelybatty]

I need a swooning gif because that would totally sum up my reaction to this post!
Look at how much detail you've put into it! It's incredible! You are amazing; thank you so much for sharing this amazing guide, bb! ♥

[jsfunction]

Omg, this is too awesome for words! So many tricks and techniques I would have never thought of - that variations + masking thing is so ingenious, I need to try that asap. And I love how you use textures for coloring. What I never get is how you can use such huuuuge textures and know how much to resize them/how to place them to get a desired effect, like how do you even get a grasp on what you could do with something that large in icon-size? :O or do you just try stuff until something works?

Anyway thanks for writing this fantastic guide, definitely memming! ^^

[raiindust]

I'm really glad you enjoyed it :)

Re: Large textures.
Sometimes I'll crop a square and resize. I generally do that with blueymcphluey's textures because they are just so big. But with other large textures, like the elli, exposed or colourmayfade, I tend to put them onto the canvas, pick a layer mode and then move it around until I find something that fits with what I want. In the end, it's really all trial and error and masking and lowering the opacity, but once I find a couple of uses for a texture, I very rarely use it beyond those uses as well... if that makes sense?

[jsfunction]

Makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation! :)

[erinae]

Very helpful guide,thank you!!:)