All new and in color!
I felt like something different yesterday and Leslie looked like she needed a little color. So, here we are! A simple cotton t-shirt of blue and yellow (my favorite colors) and comfy shorts covered in excessive pockets.
If you have any tips on coloring (especially computer coloring) let me know!
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Ooh, cool! :D Looks better than anything I've coloured on the computer. It's kinda funny though, the paperdoll Leslie looks a lot like a Leslie who goes to our church.
ReplyDeleteWhat program are you using to do computer coloring? I have some tricks I use for Marisole, but I suspect they wouldn't work in all programs.
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful! I love your colored stuff!!
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Thanks :D
ReplyDeleteI use Adobe Photoshop Elements. This is the first time I've tried coloring with it. Any tricks you have would be awesome to know!
Since I don't use Photoshop Elements, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but one of the tricks I use is to have the black and white outline on a different level then the colored sections. It means you can manipulate the line-work without messing with the color.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I scan the images at 1 bit Black and white and than I use Glaussian Blur (which is a filter and I might have spelled wrong) on my linework followed by messing with the image levels (how much black vs white is in the image) to make it look smooth. That is all done on a different level from the colored sections. My goal is to get nearly smooth black outlines and I confess to spending more time on them than I probably should.
I also recommend working much larger then whatever you want your final product to be. I work at 600 DPI even though I'll be saving it as a 300 DPI image. Dropping resolution is fairly easy, but raising it is often messy.
So that's the two second version of how I color a paper doll on the computer. Truth be told it takes about two hours to do it all or longer which is why I only do it once a week. :)
Awesome, thanks for the tips! I will definately play around with those ideas some and see what I find works in Elements!
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