![]() ![]() “outlines/paths” folder -> and click over “fill path” (the symbol circled in red) Train yourself a lot! Create curves with more points and discover all the tools and their uses. Then try to close the outline and follow the instructions given for the second image, moving anchor 2 not only where I said before, but also in other points. ![]() Let’s try to follow again the instructions for the first image until step 3, select the “convert point” tool ad play with the anchor 1 to see what happens. But what have you moved? When you click over a point and drag you create a point with 2 anchors: Using “convert point”, click on the point over the astersisk and, keeping pressed the button, move the mouse following the second arrow until you reach the little cross. The outline and a small square over the asterisk will appear. Select the “convert point” tool and click over point 2. Follow the instructions:ġ-move the mouse over point 1 and click once over the Xģ- as before click over the X and then, keeping the mouse button pressed, move the mouse following the red arrow and release the button when you arrive over the center of the red asterisk.*Ĥ- Now close the outline, return to point 1 and clicking over the X. Now, download this second image and open it in Photoshop.Īdd a layer over the image and select the pen instrument. That is, straighten the curve which close the outline? To change the curve, we can use the “Convert point tool”. And so you learned how to make a curve and close the outline. Now, if you outline the outlines with the brush (select the brush tool and then -> Layer windows, “outlines” folder -> “outline outlines with the brush” circle below) you’ll see you have done the same work I did. This means you are about to close the outline. See? You just did a part of the black outline! Now close the outline, returning to point 1 and click over the X.Īs for the lasso, the pointer will become the symbol of the tool you are using, in this case the pen with a little circle. Add a new layer above the image and select the Pen tool.ġ- move the mouse over point 1 and click once over the centre of the Xģ- as before, click over the centre of the X and then, keeping the mouse button pressed, move the mouse following the red arrow and release the mouse button when you’ll reach the center of the red asterisk * Lets’ start with a test: download this image onto your PC and open it with Photoshop. I say it plain and straight: I don’t know how to use outlines well, but what I know helped me much to colour Ruri. Indeed, if you notice, the shadows follow the wisps of the hair (or the curve of the dress, or the shape of the body), so the lasso can’t help us, but the outline can, or the pen tool, as you may call it. The vector allows you to create precise curves, called Bezier curves. Why not the lasso? The polygonal lasso tool creates geometric selections, STRAIGHT segments. Anyway, the most precise an easy (if you know it well) method is the vector. It’s long and laborious, but at that time I chose this method because I didn’t know well the “vectors” in Photoshop. Method 1 consists of making all the work free hand and correcting it with the eraser, as you can see in this screenshot of a Minako’s fanart of mine: To recreate the same shadows which are typical of the cells I use two method, similar to those described in point 2, where we have coloured Ruri’s skin together. VECTORS – IF YOU ALREADY KNOW THE OUTLINES (PHOTOSHP’S PEN TOOL) GO FORWARD! This part of the tutorial will be quite difficult… be ready! It’s like the tree visualization used for files. Each time you need to select a layer inside the base set, just click again over the arrow. The arrow will change direction from pointing down to pointing right and all the previous created layers are hidden in the folder! Left over are the layers with line art and the one with the background. In this section I’ll explain levels in Photoshop and their ordering in order to make the shadowing easiest.īefore starting with the shading, let’s make some order in the layers windows!ġ- Select the highest level and then click below where there’s the icon of a folder.Ģ- Change the name of the folder that appears in the layer window, renaming it, for example, as “base”.ģ-/4- starting from above to bottom, drag all the colour levels onto “base” (take care to maintain the original order).ĥ- Click where you see the small circle. Before starting with the shadows we need to talk about layers. ![]()
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