I'll tell you how to make it better....Take drawing off JJ's site, open in PS, adjust curves to pick out the lines and fade pencil squiggles. Print at 10% opacity, ink by hand and scan in at 600dpi grayscale. Save as PSD then open in Adobe Streamline. Convert to ART and save as an AI, open in Illustrator, fix any line problems and export as TIFF into PS. Select black colours, invert selection to delete everything but lineart. Lock layer and colour each area in a new layer underneath the lineart. Using the inked version, plot where shadows go in pencil, then use that as a guide with the pen tool and drop the selections brightness by 25 twice.
Then you look at your pencilled/inked paper and scan that in,adjust curves, stick on a surface blur, set layer to overlay, stick a flat colour lightish blue underneath, set that to darken and use the brush tool to roughly fill in a layer under that in the colours. Once finished, just play with gradients until you get one you like.
Turns out that the picture you see up there was actually a byproduct of what I was actually doing. Came out far better though.
(Then you look at your pencilled/inked paper and scan that in,adjust curves, stick on a surface blur, set layer to overlay, stick a flat colour lightish blue underneath, set that to darken and use the brush tool to roughly fill in a layer under that in the colours. Once finished, just play with gradients until you get one you like.
Turns out that the picture you see up there was actually a byproduct of what I was actually doing. Came out far better though.
Wildyles is back to rimming chimps,
Wed 3 Oct 2007, 16:13,
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should we ask Rob to add a colouring in board?
Wasp Box like a nervous random stranger at a glory hole,
Wed 3 Oct 2007, 16:19,
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Be sure to mentionI want the option of painting by numbers.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Wed 3 Oct 2007, 16:39,
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ORA bit simpler:
Open in PS, adjust levels/curves till nice and solid B&W, use the Magic Wand or any cut out tool to select an area to be coloured, make a new layer, on this layer use the paint tool to put a colour swash down in this selected shape, slightly blur it to mush edges, and use a layer effect such as Overlay or Multiply to add the colour to the background, continue in this fashion until it is all coloured in, then use the Picker set to Auto Select Layer to choose each section and the Dodge and Burn tools to add shades to the block colours. Finally, take the original background, duplicate it, and move it up the layers over everything you've done so far and use Darken or similar to make the inked edges solid black again.
(Open in PS, adjust levels/curves till nice and solid B&W, use the Magic Wand or any cut out tool to select an area to be coloured, make a new layer, on this layer use the paint tool to put a colour swash down in this selected shape, slightly blur it to mush edges, and use a layer effect such as Overlay or Multiply to add the colour to the background, continue in this fashion until it is all coloured in, then use the Picker set to Auto Select Layer to choose each section and the Dodge and Burn tools to add shades to the block colours. Finally, take the original background, duplicate it, and move it up the layers over everything you've done so far and use Darken or similar to make the inked edges solid black again.
..wil,
Wed 3 Oct 2007, 16:32,
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