Hi~I am guaguaGwaGwa!

This time I want to share my favorite creative techniques

If you are someone who likes to combine hand-painting and electronic painting, I believe this class can help you!

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Here is a simplified version of the short video tutorial (Chinese/EN)

This time I will give you a more detailed illustration~

You are also welcome to follow my IG. From time to time there will be painting tutorials and personal illustrations to share^ ^

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📸 Take a picture of your manuscript!

• Take out your phone 📱

• Save to computer!

• Create a new canvas

This step is to prevent enlarging or reducing the line drawing from blurring when performing painting

"Often forgetting to adjust the appropriate DPI and canvas size"

 

Generally, I am used to using A4 as the basic canvas, so I don’t have to worry about the picture being blurry!

• File>Read>Image>Click on the manuscript you just took

• Click on the photo layer>Right click>Layer to bitmap

📢 Important: Remember to form a matrix to proceed with the next steps!

Two ways to convert to black and white

Method 1 Display color function

Right column ＞Drop-down menu ＞Black and White

• Advantages: fast

• Disadvantage: Unable to adjust body black and white details

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Method 2: Saturation + Levels mode

First we change the picture to grayscale!

• Layer>New Hue Compensation Layer>Hue Chroma Lightness

• Shortcut: Ctrl+U

• Color: -100＞OK

• Layer>New Tone Compensation Layer>Levels

• Shortcut: Ctrl+L

If operated, control the left and right endpoints to adjust to the state you think is appropriate

Tip: Keep only black and white in the picture. This will affect the cleanliness of the line drawing in the final step.

• Select the original image and adjustment layer (click on the first layer>Hold down Shift>click on the bottom layer)>Combine the selected layers

• Advantage: You can freely retain the details of the pencil draft!

• Disadvantage: A little more steps(actually it’s okay XD)

Tip: If you use shortcut keys for method two, there is no need to merge the three layers and it will be applied directly to the original image

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📢 Method 2 is my most commonly used method of converting to black and white. Sometimes I want to keep more strokes

If you use method one directly, it is easy to eat up most of the details.

 

Ultimately depends on the picture you want to express, these two methods are available to everyone!

 

 

Come and adjust the crooked deformed manuscript!

The problem of photo distortion often occurs when taking pictures. Here is a good way to share with everyone

• Click Selection Tool>Polyline Selection

• Click on the four corners you want to keep＞Click on the bottom Bar to copy and paste

• Remember to turn off the original image so that it will not interfere with the screen!

Here is a good tool to download! We can add a nine-square grid at the top as the base

In the next deformation, it will facilitate subsequent adjustments.

• Step 1: Transform shortcut Ctrl+T

• Step 2: Hold down Ctrl and click on the node to adjust the screen

Hold down Shift to scale proportionally and Ctrl to transform freely. Using these two shortcuts can greatly increase your speed!

Cheating! Memorize with one click

Come to the last step!

This is the most amazing function of Clip! It can extract line drawings quite well and is super clean!

• Edit > Change brightness to transparency

🎇 Qiang Qiang~ You can confirm whether the memorization is successful by switching the background color! 🎇

 

The above is the teaching for this time. The completion process is attached below.

If you have any questions or want to see, please ask^ ^

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