Help for colors in CS :)

[Pinkshadow]

Hey guys

Does anyone know a way to get photoshop without paying a million for it?
- I don't have the money to buy it, since it's crazy expensive, so i thought i'd ask if anyone knew of another way to get it? (:

[Daimas]

I know OF several. but I know a great way to get CS2. PM me and I'll link you and give you the details

[Wildfilly94]

I gt CS3 from a friend at school. I'd give it to you, but I dont know how to send it :/

[Pinkshadow]

and i would LOVE if someone could help me learn to use it xD

[Wildfilly94]

It's not as complex as it looks.
When you select the brush tool, right click on the canvas to see all the different options of brushes you can use. There's also different 'groups' of brushes to use, you can select those to view them too, and just click okay or append or whatever it says 'are you sure you want to blahblahblah?'.

Just play around with everything on there to see what it all does. Ctrl + T will let you transform the object or brush stroke you make on the canvas, and click the little checkmark at the top that appears to continue to paint/draw/etc. Look at all the tabs and their options, just play around and its easier to discover and learn. ^^

To the right, at the bottom, it shows the layers, and under those you can hover over the little tools you see there to see what they do. Hopefully your familiar with layers?

When you go to save, it automatically will save in .psd unless you change it yourself, so look out for that.

Any other questions or tips you need, shoot them at me.
If you'd like me to show you more things, or just watch me work so you can see more of what everything does, I can open up a join.me and let you view.

[Pinkshadow]

It's not as complex as it looks.
When you select the brush tool, right click on the canvas to see all the different options of brushes you can use. There's also different 'groups' of brushes to use, you can select those to view them too, and just click okay or append or whatever it says 'are you sure you want to blahblahblah?'.

Just play around with everything on there to see what it all does. Ctrl + T will let you transform the object or brush stroke you make on the canvas, and click the little checkmark at the top that appears to continue to paint/draw/etc. Look at all the tabs and their options, just play around and its easier to discover and learn. ^^

To the right, at the bottom, it shows the layers, and under those you can hover over the little tools you see there to see what they do. Hopefully your familiar with layers?

When you go to save, it automatically will save in .psd unless you change it yourself, so look out for that.

Any other questions or tips you need, shoot them at me.
If you'd like me to show you more things, or just watch me work so you can see more of what everything does, I can open up a join.me and let you view.

awe your very kind wild
- I'll deff remember if i need to be shown, which i properbly do sometime :b

Atm im watchin Aralie color though xD

[Pinkshadow]

Hey guys, i thought i might as well trust retype my line so it fitted my new question

When you guys color horses, how do you find the right colors for the coats, i'm trying my best, but i can't seem to find a color i think could be Palomino atm, it's abit annoying feeling like that

Any tips?

[Bunraku]

When in photoshop, you can open more than one document. If I'm coloring a horse with a specific coat color, I usually have a picture of the horse open along side whatever I am coloring or drawing on.

In the sidebar that should have all of your pen tools, brush, and selection tool, you will see a tool shaped like an eyedropper.

Select that, and hold it over the picture of the horse, clicking on a place on its coat that seems even toned-in other words, not in the shadows of the horse, or in the most highlighted area. Pick an area that seems in the middle of the two for the best color.

If the color doesnt look like what you see in the picture, don't worry. On the same panel where your tools are, you should see two squares of color, the one in the front is the foreground color. This should be filled with whatever color you selected with the eyedropper. Now click that box with your color, and a large color selection panel will pop up showing all the ranges of color around the one you selected.

You can either move the slider on the side of the large image of colors up and down, or you can move your cursor around manually to find a color that looks closest to your picture. Once you're done, click and close the box. Your color should be selected.

Its also important to remember that a horses coat is made up of many different colors that complete what you see in the picture, so the base color you select may look nothing like what the horse actually looks like in the picture because there are many shadows and highlights changing the colors as your eyes preceive them. When coloring anything, you'll end up using more than one color to acheive the look you want over the base color, especially in an adoptable.

Hope  helped a little!

[Pinkshadow]

When in photoshop, you can open more than one document. If I'm coloring a horse with a specific coat color, I usually have a picture of the horse open along side whatever I am coloring or drawing on.

In the sidebar that should have all of your pen tools, brush, and selection tool, you will see a tool shaped like an eyedropper.

Select that, and hold it over the picture of the horse, clicking on a place on its coat that seems even toned-in other words, not in the shadows of the horse, or in the most highlighted area. Pick an area that seems in the middle of the two for the best color.

If the color doesnt look like what you see in the picture, don't worry. On the same panel where your tools are, you should see two squares of color, the one in the front is the foreground color. This should be filled with whatever color you selected with the eyedropper. Now click that box with your color, and a large color selection panel will pop up showing all the ranges of color around the one you selected.

You can either move the slider on the side of the large image of colors up and down, or you can move your cursor around manually to find a color that looks closest to your picture. Once you're done, click and close the box. Your color should be selected.

Its also important to remember that a horses coat is made up of many different colors that complete what you see in the picture, so the base color you select may look nothing like what the horse actually looks like in the picture because there are many shadows and highlights changing the colors as your eyes preceive them. When coloring anything, you'll end up using more than one color to acheive the look you want over the base color, especially in an adoptable.

Hope  helped a little!

Awesome
- Thanks going to try that :b

But i'm not too sure about the using more colors to get the right one? Does that kinda mean more layers or some? Cause atm i just color on 1 layer?

[Daimas]

if your trying to make it an adoptable you might need more than one layer to keep an even shading and highlight pallet. But even if it is just a one time picture adding layers is a BIG help when it come to coloring and shading. you can always make them one layer at the end.

[YourLoveOnly]

Daimas, Pink already has an adoptable template (lineart and shading) done by someone else, she means the actual coloring of the file is on one layer. I prefer coloring with multiple layers, one for body color, one for eyecolor, one for mane/tail, one for markings etcetera. This is especially useful for customs because if the person wants something changed you can easily fix it without having to recolor the entire pet.

[Daimas]

Daimas, Pink already has an adoptable template (lineart and shading) done by someone else, she means the actual coloring of the file is on one layer. I prefer coloring with multiple layers, one for body color, one for eyecolor, one for mane/tail, one for markings etcetera. This is especially useful for customs because if the person wants something changed you can easily fix it without having to recolor the entire pet.

Yeah I color the same way.

Pink if your coloring on the one layer, the best bet is to go with Bunraku's advice and find the closest color to what you want. the color will seem to change a bit with the shading that is already there.

[Pinkshadow]

Daimas, Pink already has an adoptable template (lineart and shading) done by someone else, she means the actual coloring of the file is on one layer. I prefer coloring with multiple layers, one for body color, one for eyecolor, one for mane/tail, one for markings etcetera. This is especially useful for customs because if the person wants something changed you can easily fix it without having to recolor the entire pet.

Nah i don't. They are just regular linearts that you can download on the internet
- I was just curious, since i'm not used to be using photoshop .

[YourLoveOnly]

Oh, Leafy told me you commissioned her for an adoptable template so I assumed that was what you were talking about.. Nevermind then

[Pinkshadow]

Oh, Leafy told me you commissioned her for an adoptable template so I assumed that was what you were talking about.. Nevermind then

Heh okay

[Daimas]

Daimas, Pink already has an adoptable template (lineart and shading) done by someone else, she means the actual coloring of the file is on one layer. I prefer coloring with multiple layers, one for body color, one for eyecolor, one for mane/tail, one for markings etcetera. This is especially useful for customs because if the person wants something changed you can easily fix it without having to recolor the entire pet.

Nah i don't. They are just regular linearts that you can download on the internet
- I was just curious, since i'm not used to be using photoshop .

if your just coloring for practice thats a great idea to get used to photoshop. I still do it myself with lineart I have commissioned, or free to use coloring pages.

[Wildfilly94]

I think Bun beat me to it. XD

But another note, sense your uing lines that arent shaded, it wont look nearly as close as the horse your mimicing.
What I do is for example, palomino:
Click your color box, find the yellow, but move it slightly into the orange, then click about midway down, in the center of the color block it shows you for the base color. Then for the highlights, click directly up a little, slightly to the left. For the shadow, click down from your original color.

I can show you this in join.me if you like?

[Pinkshadow]

Also, i'd Loove to learn to color roanish, dun striping and appy, the appy i cant kinda figure out because the spots looks rather hard just normal and they look wrong if i use smudge on them xD

[Bunraku]

What I do for appy, is use the brushes that look "faded" on the edges. At the top of the program, you'll see a picture that looks like a brush when you have the brush tool selected. Click that, and a menu will pop out where you can scroll down and select a different type of brush to use. There should be brushes that look faded, like air brushes. These in various sizes make very good appy if you use a light touch with them, and you can get many different types of appy markings. Another thing you can do, is use many different layers to layer up your appy, and use different opacities on the layers so that it gives the markings more dimension.

[Wildfilly94]

I dont use different layers, but I use the airbrushed ''Soft' brushes, and mess with thei opacity to get the right look for appy.

For roan, I color the whole horse the lighest color, and go around slowly grabbing darker shades of the color at those points where the horse has the dark points, and then with a very opaque brush, get some spotty bits on the light part with the darkest color you've got.

For dun, I use a very small brush, lighten the opacity a bit, and run a straight line like dun markings are, then smudge the ips so their more stripey and pointed at the tip ^^

Next time your online, I'll try to get on to show you these things.

[Pinkshadow]

Am online :b Do you have skype or gmail wild?

[Wildfilly94]

I have skype, as well as join.me.

BUT.. Im going to walmart and the petstore.. >.> STAY HERE. Lol.

[Wildfilly94]

I was a bit later than I expected... >.<