Thank you, master of artistic things! I am going to save this to my memories, and I have the feeling I am going to come back to it often. You always open my mind to how much more Photoshop can do, so much more than I've even begun to understand!
I am just beginning to play around in PS and this is an awesome tutorial and I find I even understand most of it. I second tex's remarks - up to now I thought I'd done fairly well but just in a one dimensional sense, now I feel like I might be able to develop a few skills to get really creative. And your explanations were perfect.
I've always been curious how you do your backgrounds and coloring, and this is really detailed and well done, so thanks!
Do have one question, though... how do get the background to blend so well with the image, aside from doing a really good job at cropping out the background from the original image? Does it have to do with not cropping to 100x100 until the end? (I work in 100x100 from the beginning, and I always have trouble adding in new background images)
Well, good cropping is one of the sine qua non conditions to blend characters and background seamlessly. That being said, I don't think it has anything to do with resizing the icon to 100x100 only at the end --though it is much easier to be precise and thorough on a larger canvas. In this tutorial it wasn't the case, but most of the time I resize the canvas gradually: I first start, let's say at 400x400 and then once I've done the heavy work, I resize to 250x250 and do the coloring, and then 102x102, last and small details, etc...
A lot of times, when my background and character(s) don't blend well, I first edit their tonal value individually until their balances of light and dark match, and then apply to both the character and background a color change, uniforming their color tones. And then, I blend them together as well through shadows and lighting... Am I making sense?
I've tried balancing light and dark in two images to get them to blend well before, but for some reason I almost always end up failing miserably... mind if I get more nosy and ask what kind of methods you use to do that...?
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Thank you!!
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Do have one question, though... how do get the background to blend so well with the image, aside from doing a really good job at cropping out the background from the original image? Does it have to do with not cropping to 100x100 until the end? (I work in 100x100 from the beginning, and I always have trouble adding in new background images)
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A lot of times, when my background and character(s) don't blend well, I first edit their tonal value individually until their balances of light and dark match, and then apply to both the character and background a color change, uniforming their color tones. And then, I blend them together as well through shadows and lighting... Am I making sense?
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I've tried balancing light and dark in two images to get them to blend well before, but for some reason I almost always end up failing miserably... mind if I get more nosy and ask what kind of methods you use to do that...?
oh yeah, and thank you!
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Now if only I had a tablet *sigh*
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