Vølt's Photoshop Tutorials

[Volt]

Hellø and Welcome to ALL!

Please be patient. I'm gathering up my tutorials and working to post them up.

Expect the following.

-ice/frozen text or image(snowflake) tutorial
-anime moving battle background
-inking and coloring
-Optimizing Volt style

[RoyalWing]

i am REALLY looking forward to this one:"-inking and coloring"
i have no idea how to do it, and when i see other people's art and how they are good at colouring in photoshop, i just want to know!!!!

[glitch1501]

yay, i wanna know what optimizing volt style is...that battle background sounds interesting too

[Mave]

*Quietly and patiently waits for the tutorials* ^^

[inkhana]

>-inking and coloring

Guess that means I don't have to do my tutorial! LOL

[Straylight]

>-inking and coloring

Guess that means I don't have to do my tutorial! LOL

I hope you are joking, Inkhana. ;_;

[inkhana]

Ohh...well, I've mentioned it a couple of times and the only person who showed interest was you, SL...O.o I guess maybe I need to talk to Volt-san and see what technique he uses, and if our techniques differ quite a bit, then I could go ahead...:) I just don't wanna rehash when I'm sure Volt will do a good job on his own...:)

[RoyalWing]

Ohh...well, I've mentioned it a couple of times and the only person who showed interest was you, SL...O.o I guess maybe I need to talk to Volt-san and see what technique he uses, and if our techniques differ quite a bit, then I could go ahead...:) I just don't wanna rehash when I'm sure Volt will do a good job on his own...:)

UMM NO!!!! you have to post your way of doing it too!! i just read your comic and i love your way of colouring ;___;

[Volt]

Inkhana will have the privilage of showcasing the standard Inking and scanning that most artists use.

My method is a bit aimed toward people with Mice that don't have tablets. My method works at eliminating ALL white spots 90% of the time. And after optimizing (funny cuz it's such a cheap ghetto method) Images look smooth without the blur. Nothing to get excited about.

It's just my way of getting around not having a tablet. Working with mice can be a nightmare sometimes.

I've been very curisous about any shortcuts the standard inking and scanning technique has. I've been wanting to switch over it but like I said, compared to my method it's a lot more time consuming. In the end time=quality the more the better.

I'm working on making two identicle images, one my way, one the standard way. So I can show you guys and let you compare.

[Retten]

Ah well then we must have Ink's and Volts tuts :thumb: *sits and waits for them*

[Volt]

I must warn you...mine is really cheap. I mean after I tellyou you'll like bop me on the head for getting everyone so excited.

I know you guys are sick of me talking the talk and not walking the walk. But I've been really busy. I'm working on making the images to show the before and after of my cheap effect. SO just be patient.

[Volt]

I give up, I don't have the time to make those samples I've been working on UC's THE FALL website (it's going great!!! :) :) :) :jump: ) and so i'll just come out and tell you.

YOu need to start with a HUGE canvas. about 1,500 X 1,500. Go ahead and do whatever you want, use Ink's method or my cheap...

using auto contrast.
Using the magic wand tool
and then filling in the regions or painting them in with the fill bucket or the paintbrush or air brush etc...
at the end resize the entire image down to a good 400x400.


Odd enough when a HUGE image gets resize down to a tiny one...pixels in between are taken out... a lot... But your image won't look bad because you started out with a big canvas, so you can afford for pixels to be taken out.

The funny thing is, the pixels that get "squished out of the image" are usually the "white spots" or abnormalities in your scan... This technique is pretty easy, works I'd say 90% on the entire image 80% of the time. (wild guesses)

Even if your pic doesn't have any white spots, try it out. If you're like me and get a bit nervious when you ink, doing this will help a lot with getting rid of those jagged ink lines. Instead they'll come out looking smooth, along with the color and overall look of your pic.

In the end everything ends up being "Ironed Out". all the wrinkles are gone and the image feels optimized. The colors are almost blended but not blured, smoothened out but not smudged, sharp yet rounded. :thumb:

Now get out there and "pencil, ink, scan" Show Photoshop who his mama is!