Urge to quit....rising.....
Jan. 9th, 2006 09:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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CS
Or here if the RSS feed hasn't caught up..
The LJ AWFW feed, as far as I can tell, is dead. Not my fault.
Okay, photoshop gurus, I need your help.
I'm trying to do my comics in Photoshop, because to get anywhere in graphics professionally you have to use it. Coming from 10 years of Paint Shop Pro, the switchover has been anything but easy. The main problem, specifically with doing my comics, comes from the way I color.
The thing here is, it needs to be fast. I'm an incredibly slow drafter, so where I lost time in drawing, I gain in coloring and assembling the comic. I've managed to get my PSP routine down where I can color an entire comic in a matter of minutes:
I want to fill the hair blue, so I select a large area quickly.
If you look at the top of the hair where I've selected, there are numerous breaks, with the biggest being back by her cowlick. I "cut" these out of the selection.
Now, once that's all done, I fill the hair in, and whala, instant...blue hair.
However, following these exact same instructions in PShop give this mess:
This has been THE thing that has killed PShop and GIMP for me when it comes to the comic. The only appearant solution was to completely retrace every section needing to be filled, and that added hours to the comics, and I don't have those hours to spend.
Now that I'm trying to get more art oriented in my career, I need to learn PShop, and the best way for me to learn is by doing the comics in it. The problem is, 95% of my computer work is coloring in this method. So I need to find a better way of doing it. The fastest I've found so far is to:
The I use the color range tool to deselect all black lines.
Then go into Quick Mask mode:
Then fill in the offending bits from here.
Then I go back to regular mode and fill it in.
This is long and complicated for somthing that HAS to have an easier resolution. What do YOU, the viewer at home thing. I could really use the help, because I'm pulling my hair out on these comics that would take me all of an hour to do in PSP.
Remember, I'm looking for Quick. Not Artistic. Although if you can do both, great.
CS
Or here if the RSS feed hasn't caught up..
The LJ AWFW feed, as far as I can tell, is dead. Not my fault.
Okay, photoshop gurus, I need your help.
I'm trying to do my comics in Photoshop, because to get anywhere in graphics professionally you have to use it. Coming from 10 years of Paint Shop Pro, the switchover has been anything but easy. The main problem, specifically with doing my comics, comes from the way I color.
The thing here is, it needs to be fast. I'm an incredibly slow drafter, so where I lost time in drawing, I gain in coloring and assembling the comic. I've managed to get my PSP routine down where I can color an entire comic in a matter of minutes:
I want to fill the hair blue, so I select a large area quickly.
If you look at the top of the hair where I've selected, there are numerous breaks, with the biggest being back by her cowlick. I "cut" these out of the selection.
Now, once that's all done, I fill the hair in, and whala, instant...blue hair.
However, following these exact same instructions in PShop give this mess:
This has been THE thing that has killed PShop and GIMP for me when it comes to the comic. The only appearant solution was to completely retrace every section needing to be filled, and that added hours to the comics, and I don't have those hours to spend.
Now that I'm trying to get more art oriented in my career, I need to learn PShop, and the best way for me to learn is by doing the comics in it. The problem is, 95% of my computer work is coloring in this method. So I need to find a better way of doing it. The fastest I've found so far is to:
The I use the color range tool to deselect all black lines.
Then go into Quick Mask mode:
Then fill in the offending bits from here.
Then I go back to regular mode and fill it in.
This is long and complicated for somthing that HAS to have an easier resolution. What do YOU, the viewer at home thing. I could really use the help, because I'm pulling my hair out on these comics that would take me all of an hour to do in PSP.
Remember, I'm looking for Quick. Not Artistic. Although if you can do both, great.
