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photoshop basics tutorial: hand colouring 2

Mar 28, 2006 15:27

part 2: hand colouring a colour photograph

(feel free to use the finished icon with credit)

( biggish images, but not very many )

tutorial, basics, colouring

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raven_feathers March 29 2006, 13:04:47 UTC

i just changed the wording up there (i was doing this tutorial while someone was yammering at me and it's not perfectly clear at all times, is it? dur.)

in this case, i used the sponge to desaturate.

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raven_feathers March 29 2006, 23:03:00 UTC

ah, gotcha! (sorry, i didn't want to leap in with a big discussion of the uses of the sponge tool and have you be like, yeah, duh, erica, thanks)

the sponge tool saturates and desaturates. i almost never use the saturate function because it tends to accentuate colours you may not know are there until you sponge them up.
at a low percentage setting (and i'm sorry, i don't remember if it's opacity or flow or what) it's not too terrible, but it's best left alone for the most part. before i discovered the beauty of the overlay paintbrush, i used to use a combination of the sponge on saturate, the Normal paintbrush at low opacity, and the "variations" adjustment to brighten the colours. hand colouring with the Overlay brush (or the Multiply or Screen brush) is just a more precise way to make the colours more vivid or change them altogether. *cough*hermione's yule gown*cough*