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Using color light textures on black & white
Posted on June 18, 2006 at 02:10 am under Tutorials and Tips
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CS
This was a requested tutorial for one of the example usage icons I posted for the Color Highlights set. The following covers one very simple way of utilizing a bit of color with a black and white image to give it a little boost:
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Coloring black and white manga icon
Posted on September 10, 2005 at 01:55 am under Tutorials and Tips
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CS
Someone requested a coloring tutorial after I posted a few colored manga icons, and since I haven’t written tutorials in a while I figured I’d give this one a go. There are many different methods when it comes to coloring an image. The way that is covered in this tutorial is quite easy for giving quick colors, though it probably works best when working on a smaller scale- mainly because a lot of detailed coloring work is omitted. On a larger scale project, the same methods can still be applied but you’d probably have to be much more meticulous in the process.
Here’s a fairly simple one we’re going to do, using a NANA manga scan:
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Using my icon color light textures
Posted on April 29, 2005 at 10:55 pm under Tutorials and Tips
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop 6.0
This tutorial came after questions about how to use my Lights and Colors texture set to give a combination of both light and color effects on the example icons I posted. Below, I will cover the ways you can use those textures to achieve the following 3 icons with very minor alterations to get these different color schemes:
Using my monochrome icon light textures
Posted on March 28, 2005 at 02:16 am under Tutorials and Tips
Software Used: Adobe Photoshop 6.0
After receiving a lot of requests for an explanation on how I used my Monochrome Spotlights texture set for the example icon I posted, I thought I’d take a bit of time to put up a tutorial on it. The tutorial will show you the bare minimum effect that you can achieve without really doing anything fancy at all. We’ll be covering this:
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