Comments on: Color Mini Tutorial

By: Trevour

Trevour — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 01:08:56 +0000

Thanks for this exceptionally informative tutorial! It’s already helped me realize some of my own frustrations in Photoshop coloring.

Gordon Ramsay – a perfect subject for caricature! The guy seems like a real nice person outside of the kitchen – but standing over the hot plate – LOOK OUT!!! That fuming anger comes from his ultimate passion, I think.

And of course, I can’t wait to see the rest of the parody!

By: opsman

opsman — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 05:50:38 +0000

I love the finished pic.

By: opsman

opsman — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 04:14:56 +0000

Nice Work on the finished pic, looks mighty fine to me.

By: cedricstudio

cedricstudio — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:48:39 +0000

Wow, this is great info. I do a lot of coloring in Photoshop myself, but I picked up a couple of extra tips from your post. Thanks a bunch.

You didn’t mention this, but I really like how you sometimes don’t color the background all the way to the edge of of a foreground element. I assume that’s to help the foreground pop a little more. If so it works nicely.

Thanks again. Very inspiring stuff.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:15:51 +0000

I think you are referring to the “paint bucket” tool as opposed to the “magic wand” tool. The paint bucket fills a contained area with color, whereas the magic wand selects an area of color, isolating it like it was masked off with frisket film. I do not use the paint bucket took for color fills for the very reasons you cite. It would not work regardless, as I do the color on an entirely different layer than the inks with no lines whatever to contain the bucket fills. I paint on a blank background layer, with the linework on a layer above, almost in the manner of painting an animation cell. Sorry this was not clear. There is a link in the tutorial post to a post about scanning ad prepping the work, and that explains this process.