Grayscale Shading and Non-Destructive Coloring Techniques for Photoshop Artists
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this series of tutorials, we'll be focusing on painting values in grayscale and how to preserve them when applying color to our grayscale illustration in Photoshop. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
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Course Description
In this series of tutorials, we'll be focusing on painting values in grayscale and how to preserve them when applying color to our grayscale illustration in Photoshop. We'll begin this process by establishing the direction of our light source and adding some base values. From there we'll explore a layered workflow of developing our shadows and lighting and we'll continue with refining and adding details to our grayscale composition. Finally, we will walk through a process of painting color on our grayscale illustration using various blend modes, allowing us to preserve our values. As we will see, through this process, we can render a grayscale image to completion and paint color in a non destructive fashion. Applying these techniques to your own workflow will allow you to focus on values first and save some time when painting color. Software required: Photoshop CS6.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 0m 58s
—Introduction and Project Overview 0m 58sGrayscale Shading and Non-destructive Coloring Techniques- 1h 16m
—Light Origin and Base Values 7m 49s
—Painting Occlusion Shadows to Ground the Subject 7m 16s
—Developing Lighting Scheme 8m 16s
—Building Contrast with Grayscale Values 7m 48s
—Refining and Detailing Grayscale Values 9m 21s
—Final Grayscale Rendering 9m 26s
—Applying Base Color 8m 48s
—Coloring with Blend Modes 9m 33s
—Final Visual Elements 7m 57s