Comments on: Photoshop Tricks (Part 1)

By: kim gomez

kim gomez — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 16:57:25 +0000

It was interesting to read…you have some great information on your blog. Your insight and expertise would be a welcome addition to our community, i hope you will consider joining

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:35:01 +0000

These are some handy tips, thanks! I’m curious to try some of this out myself.

By: Trade

Trade — Thu, 15 May 2008 14:01:25 +0000

Hey Eileen, Awesome. Glad to be of help.

By: Eileen

Eileen — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:25 +0000

So glad I found your page.
Thanks for putting this out here!

By: Trade

Trade — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:07:27 +0000

Good to hear from you Boyboy. It’s tough to talk about scanning because I think most scanners are set up differently. I’ll post a quick tutorial with my next post about how I scan my artwork and clean it up. Hopefully, that’ll provide you with some of the basics (at least how I work them) and help you out.

By: Trade

Trade — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:04:37 +0000

Hey Mark. Layer masks are basically just a way to cut a chunk out of a layer. You use one shape (the mask) to take away part of another shape (the layer). They’re kind of hard to get your head around if you haven’t worked with them a lot, but they can be really useful. If I can think of a clear way to explain it, I’ll try to come up with something for a future post. I use them a little bit on my work for the comic.

By: Boyboy

Boyboy — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:07:52 +0000

Could you post some directions on scanning (basic settings, dpi and stuff)? I seem to have some trouble with that. You’re doing a great job with these tutorials, by the way.

By: Andertoons

Andertoons — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 20:34:23 +0000

Layer masks are scary to me as I’ve yet to try them out. Or understand them. Or know what they are.

Anyone got any tutes to send me to?

By: Trade

Trade — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:12:17 +0000

Hey Josh!

Dude, this works great. Thanks for sharing. Although I think you’ve effectively nullified my whole post, I’ll have to forgive you because I’ll be using your method from now on.

I usually just fill a selection as you described and lock the layer instead of making a mask. It’s just a preference thing though, since you have the same advantages either way.

By: Josh of Pixelton

Josh of Pixelton — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:25:01 +0000

Nice post!

I do the same thing by having black & white art, going to select “Color Range” and selecting all of the black. Then I create a new layer named “color lines” and create a layer mask with the selection.

The benefit is that I can easily color into this line area without ever having to worry about creating jagged lines from coloring a selection, I can tweak it endlessly without messing up the lineart, and it takes about ten seconds…

Keep up the talented work!

- Josh