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I'm Ash. This tutorial will quickly discuss about the workflow of turning photograph/images into anime styled background, using Cilp Studio paint's recent tools! Lets hop onto the first step. •.:°❀════════----------------------------------------------════════❀°:.•

 

Composing image or photo.

Choose an image or photo from your files and open it in Clip Studio Paint to create magic.

If it has a low resolution, I recommend editing at 300 dpi. It is necessary to clarify that it will be easier to work and receive quality output.

To change the pixels do the following: Edit -> Image Resolution -> Select 300px...

 

DPI or “dots per inch” is a way of measuring an image's original intended size and its resolution/quality. DPI is a measurement of dots per inch of printed or monitor-viewed image. The higher the dpi, the higher the resolution, and the better the image quality.

 

Apply Artistic filter

Artistic Filter is a very powerful tool, so I suggest you to experiment it according to your taste. Have a copy of your original image. Therefore, you can repeat and not lost your original work.

You can find through the following;

Select Filter -> Effect -> Artistic...

 

I prefer "Color Only"for this particular project. So I could add bit of line art work as for my style. Again, you don't have to follow the exact numbers, however you can test for the best.

 

—Line thickness: 15 ;Determines the thickness of the lines to establish the different shapes in the photo or image

• Line simplicity: 40 ;The number of lines within your image. If you increase the number of line simplicity your image will be blurred

— Line density: 30 ;Determines the line density based on its thickness

—Opacity of line: 70 ;Determine the opacity/transparency of your line

• Line anti-aliasing: 50 ;Causes a smoothing/flat effect the higher the value

—Color blending: 05 ;Causes a gentle transition from one color to the other.

—Color blur: 20 ;Causes distorted vision (like seeing wavy lines), and colors appearing faded.

—Number of colors: 50 ;Added or loss of colors

 

click on “Accept”

 

Masking

Before painting, it is always better to separate objects in the scene into different layers; using layer mask on your layer palette. Layer mask will not ruin your original image which will be easy in fixing details.

Doing this will make the painting process easier. Notice how we also completely remove the sky as we going to paint them later. Giving it much more anime like depth

 

Adding Sky

After separating all objects into layers and removing unwanted elements, add in the sky color. Sky color will tell us the time of the day, and set the overall ambient and mood. Use a soft round edge, airbrush or gradient tool to paint the sky.

 

If you want to add or choose different gradients, follow the following;

Edit -> Tonal Correction -> Gradient Map

Color Adjuments

After setting the colors of sky, we can adjust the photo to match the sky color. Anime usually consists of saturated colors. For example shadow are more blue, sun are more red and yellowish green. The leaves and the temple is a bit blueish for a warm sunset, so I adjust its hue to match the sky color.

 

Edit -> Tonal Correction -> Color Balance

You can use other functions that helps to change the hue, saturation, and brightness.

Tweaking The Photo

Painting over photo is actually more simple than most people interpret. We just need to color pick (Press "I") from the photo and paint over it. Keep on doing this, until we got that painterly feel for the artwork. In general, we want to remove photo compression artifact and noise from the photo. Also adding in different elements that are needed for your piece. Of course you'll need patient to get fantastic results!

 

We can start editing the vegetation

We might want to remove some unwanted objects in the photo as well. Do this by painting or using lasso tool to copy and paste similar images on the unwanted. Paint over it afterwards or smooth it out, to seem like its been there all along.

Adding atmospheric effect like haze, flog or glow is the easiest way to add value to our artwork. Paint the glowing area with a soft airbrush in a additive blend mode layer. I've used hard light for this piece.

If you want to know more about blending mode, click on the url provided

Adding New Elements

Clouds are better when they are repaint from scratch. Giving the artwork a more painting feel. Since, I've separated the foreground from the background earlier, so it will be easier for me to paint the clouds from behind.

Choosing the the lightest color of the sky to paint the fluffy clouds.

 

1. Add a new layer, use opaque watercolor brush to paint the shape of cloud.

2. Lock and preserve layer transparency, shade the cloud.

3. Use smudge tool to smudge the shading

4. Scale down brush tip and continue painting the cloud to add in smaller detail.

5. Add in small clouds around the bigger clouds.

 

The whole image now has warm colors. So let's add some more attractive components using cool colors. Because having a balanced color scheme will be much more appealing for yourself and the audience.

 

Warm colors — such as red, yellow, and orange; evoke warmth because they remind us of things like the sun or fire.

Cool colors — such as blue, green, and purple (violet); evoke a cool feeling because they remind us of things like water or grass.

 

So I'll be adding a waterfall to balanced out the illustration.

Negative space, in art, is the space around and between the subject(s) of an image. Negative space may be most evident when the space around a subject, not the subject itself, forms an interesting or artistically relevant shape, and such space occasionally is used to artistic effect as the "real" subject of an image.

However is equally as important as is positive space in overall composition. It's all about finding the right balance. Simply put positive space is the actual subject while negative space is the area that surrounds the subject.

In this illustration, I drew a dead looking tree to leave out the emptiness. Nonetheless It has become the main focus but we want to focus on the scenery/background instead.

To do that, you must blur out the tree

Blurring a photo is a common and popular effect to highlight or hide certain elements within a picture or background.

You can blur image background easily and make a big contrast within the depth filed and surface; using the following:

Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian Blur

Finalizing

With that step we finalize it with "Tone curve"using the following:

Edit -> Tonal Correction -> Tone Curve...

 

All you have to do is click on it to turn the tool on and then click-and-drag on the particular tone range or area of the image to adjust it. The Tone Curve is a powerful tool that can affect the overall brightness and contrast of an image. By adjusting the Tone Curve, you can make your images brighter or darker, and affecting the contrast levels. I use this every time I've finished illustrations.

 

It is very easy but of course you'll need to practice and have patience is key!

I hope you are encouraged to these incredible tools and I also hope that you've learned something new from this tutorial.

 

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