Okay some successes last night and some .....not so much. First I love Alt-Backspace...sheer goodness as it figures out where the lines are. Also LOVE MULTIPLY for making the lines look better and darker.
I understand the layer line art. I understand the layer for color.
I DO NOT understand screen layer. I put it in screen mode....Of course the screen turns a bit opaque. Then I try to select areas using lasso or polygon and brush with what...... white? A lighter color....radial gradient? Then when I merge...those areas I highlighted disappear for some reason.
This is the step that is beating me up.
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Screening...
LJ
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I DO NOT understand screen layer. I put it in screen mode....Of course the screen turns a bit opaque. Then I try to select areas using lasso or polygon and brush with what...... white? A lighter color....radial gradient? Then when I merge...those areas I highlighted disappear for some reason.
This is the step that is beating me up.
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Ah okay I think the problem lies in which mode you are setting... If you're doing glows, use a new layer on top of the lineart and keep the layer set on normal. Your brush is set on screen, and at a high opacity, somewhere from 50-70%.
If you're screening inside a selection, your brush is set to screen, and the layer again is set on normal. The pull down menu for screening is on the top bar, NOT in the layers section.
And yes if you merge a layer set on screen in the layers menu, yeah it will tend to disappear. Other things to note, you can screen with lighter colors, but many lighter colors will just make white when screened with high opacity.
I tend to screen with either the same color or a mid tone. However if you set your screen to a low opacity on a very large soft brush say over 100 pixels in size, you get a nice slow build up. You might even have to go larger than that, and remember each pass you make over one before it, makes the area brighter!
Good luck!
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lol sorry i accidentally deleted the psd file after saving it...
yeah you go fine your own lineart, slacker!!!
[/ QUOTE ]I know I know ...........a point my wife reminds me of ALL the time.
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