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Colour Tutorial by ~NightmareHound:iconNightmareHound:

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©2008-2009 ~NightmareHound
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This isn`t a colouring tutorial, it`s a colour tutorial. And really goddamn long one to boot.

Mainly the target audience are those who can use photoshop to some extent (though these tips hold even when coloured by traditional media) but don´t have much colour theory in their head.

And weird and confusing. I forgot half I wanted to say and it`s most likely full of typos.

...I´m not sure how many of these there is already but here`s one more. If this gets positive comments (crits are welcome to see what I could`ve made clearer) I might do one about colouring a full pic.

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=cibex Jun 26, 2008, 12:22:09 PM
This is awesome and VERY helpful. I've been using less saturated colors for quite some time, but didn't know the trick with the opposite color shadows yet. I really gotta try it sometime.

Thanks a lot for sharing!!

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~NightmareHound Jun 26, 2008, 12:57:21 PM
Thank you! It`s good to know that this wasn`t complete waste.
And the opposite colour shadow works pretty far, though I use pretty much blue shadows.

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=cibex Jun 26, 2008, 1:05:45 PM
I guess it also depends on how warm or cold the rest of the image is. Anyway, I'll definitely try and play with it a bit next time and provide a link back to this - since I'm convinced that there are many of us out there who can learn from this, too.

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~monsterchan Jun 26, 2008, 1:05:48 PM
What's the significance of 8 Bits/Channel?
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~NightmareHound Jun 26, 2008, 1:18:03 PM
I´ve noticed that 16 Bits/Channel can make the file size larger (aparently it has even more colour range or keeps them brighter) and with that bug the computer. With photos and proffessional work it can be different (I´m sure they know better) but to those this tutorial is targeted, 16-bit isn`t exactly necessary.

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~NightmareHound Jun 26, 2008, 1:21:15 PM
Yeah, it`s always about the image as whole. That`s why rainbow colours can work on a character sheet, but when you try to put them on a image with a background and lots of other colours and then try to make the rainbow not jump out...

And I`d really appreciated if you linked this, because yeah, some others might need this too.

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~DiggingBadger Jun 26, 2008, 1:36:48 PM
Very nice! It's nice to know that people actually pay attention to colors schemes and make sure they're not harmful to retinas...
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~NightmareHound Jun 26, 2008, 1:42:57 PM
Some at least. To me the colouring is the most time consuming usually. I can spend hours just to get the hues the way I want them.

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~StarRaven Jun 26, 2008, 2:22:53 PM
I can't full-view it. I tried downloading and it says the image contains errors. D:

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~razz93 Jun 26, 2008, 2:43:29 PM
Awesome. This points out a lot of stuff I usually don't think about. Useful tip also about scanning/lineart.

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