Photoshop technique!

[jeski]

I have seen Oney do many drawings like this along with many other great flash artists do this kind of technique on pictures on Photoshop (In picture below). I am not sure what the techniques called but it sure looks cool and I would like to learn how to do it. I have Photoshop but I am just not sure how to do it? Can anyone tell me what it's called or help me learn it? Thanks.

-Jeski

[CosmicDeath]

Which part of the image are you referring to for the technique? You mean the shadows?

I would guess that they'd used the burn tool. (The burn tool is located under the dodge tool which looks like a little magnifying glass with a blacked out lens on your toolbar) The Burn and dodge tool do opposite things. Burn darkens pixels on their layer and dodge lightens pixels on their layer - neither add or take away pixels, so if you have an object on a separate layer from its background, the layer that you work on will be the only one to change, the other will show no difference.

Alternatively, they could have just used black paint over the shadowed areas with a low opacity.

Try experimenting with dodge and burn tools and you'll see how they work pretty quickly.

If you didn;t mean the shadows, what were you referring to?

[jeski]

At 2/11/09 01:22 PM, CosmicDeath wrote: Which part of the image are you referring to for the technique? You mean the shadows?

I would guess that they'd used the burn tool. (The burn tool is located under the dodge tool which looks like a little magnifying glass with a blacked out lens on your toolbar) The Burn and dodge tool do opposite things. Burn darkens pixels on their layer and dodge lightens pixels on their layer - neither add or take away pixels, so if you have an object on a separate layer from its background, the layer that you work on will be the only one to change, the other will show no difference.

Alternatively, they could have just used black paint over the shadowed areas with a low opacity.

Try experimenting with dodge and burn tools and you'll see how they work pretty quickly.

If you didn;t mean the shadows, what were you referring to?

Sorry that's what I meant like the shadows on the skin and the darker tone all over the body there is more examples on Oney's flashes such as Spongebob Sickpants an more just check them out. I will try those tools you sugested but someone told me that I should use a speacial brush?

[CosmicDeath]

At 2/11/09 01:42 PM, jeski wrote: Sorry that's what I meant like the shadows on the skin and the darker tone all over the body there is more examples on Oney's flashes such as Spongebob Sickpants an more just check them out. I will try those tools you sugested but someone told me that I should use a speacial brush?

Maybe they meant the burn tool when they said "a special brush"? There are many, many preset brushes and brush packs you can use, but they work in conjunction with the tool you are using (not just paintbrush).

For example, the eraser tool can have a specific brush set to erase either hard, smooth, in a pattern, etc. The same is true of the dodge, burn, smudge and sponge tools - to name the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

You should select a brush that you think is suitable for what you are doing and the artwork. So if you need to make a sharp/clean erase along the edge of some linework, select your erase tool in your toolbar, and then select the type of brush head you want to use to erase with that will give that look (most likely a very hard brush without fading along the edges).

In the instance of using the burn tool, if you want a roughly darkened edge, select the burn tool, then go to the top bar area where you can select the type of brush head and scroll through your list of bushes for one that will achieve your desired result. Trial and error will be the only way to figure out what works for your application. One thing that never fails to make my palm and face meet is when I see someone use the same brush for everything. Variety is key to helping create more detailed texture, etc.

So just give those tools a go and have a whack at different brush heads and opacities. Hope that made sense, lol.

[BlackmarketKraig]

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