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Making of WQ part 1-ScriptingPreface

    I am in no way claiming my technique is great, but it's been working for me and I am able to update color pages daily while also working 20-30 hours of retail a week.  My philosophy is as follows.  I do not strive for perfection.  I strive for decent foundations.  My goals are to tell an engaging story with artwork that compliments rather than distracts from that.  The average reader will not dwell on every panel.  If your story is pulling them in as it should, they will be flipping through each page, spending maybe a few minutes to absorb it. &#

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A continuation of comic page process previous link here
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6. Color part 1

I would like to start by reiterating that I am by no means an expert on color or photoshop. most of my technique here was built on converting gray scale pages to color. I'm sure there's a better way out there.

This is will a long section just because I do work in a lot of layers and little steps. I wanted to be thorough so I will be explaining everything even though it is all very basic. I do use some basic hot keys in order to make the process faster then hover over and clicking on stuff.

Probably the ones I use the most are

b>brush, e>eraser, [ ] >smaller/larger brush size, g>flood fill, w>wand, i>eye drop, z>zoom, m>marquee, v>move, ctrl+t>transform, ctrl+alt+z>step backward, ctrl+z>undo, ctrl+c>copy, ctrl+v>paste

I color at 300 dpi. I am using Photoshop CS3

6a. I start by duplicating my line work layer and setting the top layer to multiply. The bottom layer I will use to color character flats. I use the same color palette regardless of the scene for each character.

6b. I use a wand at tolerance 1, turning off contiguous to select all of the white. I delete the white in the background. I erase any back ground fuzz/lines on my flat color layer. I drop a black and white gradient on a new layer below the character flat layer, to get a VERY general idea of the lighting. I use a film grain filter to get rid of banding on this gradient, in this case it was grain 8, highlight 0, intensity 1 These setting will be adjusting depending on how harsh the gradient is. I erase where the sky will be. I drop a blue to white gradient on a new layer below the gray scale layer for the sky. These are my primary layers that will be built on.

6c. I create a layer on top of my flat color layer and using ctrl+alt+g I group it to my flat color layer. I set this layer to multiply. I use a medium, warm gray and standard solid round brush to create a shadow on the character. I create the same type of layer on top of my back ground layer. using a round air brush at 10% and standard solid eraser, I will create a blended shadow with hard edges for the background.

6d. I create a layer in between my shadow and my flat color layer for my character and set it to overlay. I drop a gradient on top of the character. (this step I will only do when I feel appropriate.) I will create a layer in between my shadow and background and set it for color. Here I used a yellow to green gradient.

part 2
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