request Dear Artist, I need help

[Bohtty 1,775]

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How?

 

xD hold on let me download Gimp. I am surprised you didn't know , Gimp's main feature is photo manipulation not drawing...

 

EDIT: Colors>Levels...

you should see 2 black to white bars with arrows on them.

The first one is the one you want (the last one controls brightness essentially)

on the first bar...

Bring the black arrow >>>>>

and the white arrow <<<<<

don't worry about anything else. Just mess with those two arrows.

Black arrow controls the darks, White arrow controls the lights, grey arrow controls the mediums, but for this application you only need the darks and lights.

 

Also remember to put the drawing into black and white because trust me, it's not when you scan it.

you can do this by going to Colors>Hue-Saturation.

Then find the Saturation slider and drag it all the way to the left. This bar just controls the "richness" of the color in the screen. All the way to the left should result in no color.

 

Let me know if you need more help

Edited May 15, 2012 by Bohtty

[Aureity 3,055]

xD hold on let me download Gimp. I am surprised you didn't know , Gimp's main feature is photo manipulation not drawing...

 

Not sure what you mean by levels...did you mean layers?

[Bohtty 1,775]

Not sure what you mean by levels...did you mean layers?

 

Nope, levels is an image manipulation option :]

Edited May 15, 2012 by Bohtty

[Aureity 3,055]

Nope, levels is an image manipulation option :]

 

Never heard of it. I use brightness-contrast, but it doesn't seem to work very well

[Bohtty 1,775]

Never heard of it. I use brightness-contrast, but it doesn't seem to work very well

 

Lol re read my post a few posts up, I edited it with the info awhile ago xD.

[Chickey 383]

I personally feel Sai is the easiest to use, but it does lack a few features in my opinion.

just don't use really cheap programs, Paint or Paint.net i don't really like.

[Bohtty 1,775]

I personally feel Sai is the easiest to use, but it does lack a few features in my opinion.

just don't use really cheap programs, Paint or Paint.net i don't really like.

 

What could it possibly be missing

[Chickey 383]

What could it possibly be missing

 

I mean like compared to something like photoshop there would be a lot more tools in it (I think you may be able to download them to Sai or something.)

 

But from my experience Sai does not have transparency though.

[Bohtty 1,775]

I mean like compared to something like photoshop there would be a lot more tools in it (I think you may be able to download them to Sai or something.)

 

But from my experience Sai does not have transparency though.

 

SAI doesn't have transferable transparency which it doesn't need because its a painting program

99% of all Photoshop tools are for photo manipulation. I can only think of one tool I used in photoshop and that is the brush... what else do you use ._.?

[Chickey 383]

SAI doesn't have transferable transparency which it doesn't need because its a painting program

99% of all Photoshop tools are for photo manipulation. I can only think of one tool I used in photoshop and that is the brush... what else do you use ._.?

 

Depends what kind of painting you are doing i suppose..

Burn, Dodge, and Gradients can be used to add different effects to what you are making.

[Bohtty 1,775]

Depends what kind of painting you are doing i suppose..

Burn, Dodge, and Gradients can be used to add different effects to what you are making.

 

You should never *ever* use burn or dodge for a painting. It's one of the Photoshop sins!

[Chickey 383]

You should never *ever* use burn or dodge for a painting. It's one of the Photoshop sins!

 

I never said i did use them, but you can use them. :/

[Bohtty 1,775]

I never said i did use them, but you can use them. :/

 

I know, but you shouldn't mention them, it might give some people bad ideas O,.....,o

[Chickey 383]

I know, but you shouldn't mention them, it might give some people bad ideas O,.....,o

 

*Puts hands up* It cool bro, dodge and burn cannot hurt us.

[Clover Heart 978]

Anything that utilizes layers and masks should allow you to paint line art. I use Paint Shop Pro 7, which, one, is old and two, would probably run you 100 bucks. Unfortunately, I don't have any kind of freeware to suggest for you, but I'm pretty sure you'll need, at the very least, a program which utilizes layers. Maybe that could cut down on your search time?

[Bohtty 1,775]

*Puts hands up* It cool bro, dodge and burn cannot hurt us.

 

Nonsense! *foams at the mouth*

lol, but seriously dodge/burn suck.

[Chickey 383]

Nonsense! *foams at the mouth*

lol, but seriously dodge/burn suck.

 

Dodge and Burn will destroy us all!

 

 

I use a variety of programs Sai, Inkscape, PS:CS6 Beta, PS:CS5 and Gimp 2

But main thing you would need would be layers to do coloring.

[Bohtty 1,775]

I use a variety of programs Sai, Inkscape, PS:CS6 Beta, PS:CS5 and Gimp 2

But main thing you would need would be layers to do coloring.

 

I don't even use layers... It depends on your preference I guess.