Coloring in Photoshop

Hi

People are commonly know Adobe Photoshop as a tool or software to edit pictures. Either they use crop, color tone or any effects in that software to make the picture looks great.

I used this software too to edit pictures. In the same time, I used it for coloring my drawings. It is best if you draw outline first before do some coloring. I consider myself not an expert, but I want to share some tips that I usually used when comes to coloring in Photoshop.

Let's start with the ball, shall we?

In outline layer (which is the original drawing), I used Magic Wand tool to select the ball like what you have seen in above picture.


I put orange as main color for the ball by using Paint Bucket.


I like to color in different layers. If you are not satisfied with the color or any effect that you use, you can just delete the layer and make a new one. If you color on the same layer, it will cost you a bit of time to edit and readjust cause it might affected the other color that you have done and also your original drawing. Therefore, to make it safe, always use new layer everytime you do coloring for each place you have selected. As for this case, I usually used 3 layers for each type - the main, the shadow and either the highlight or another shadow according to what kind of effects I want it to look like.


And like picture above, this is how it looks like without any shadows and highlights. Doesn't look that great, does it? So that is why shadows and highlights are important in the drawing. The picture below shown the color of shadows for the drawing.


And here are the tools that I often used when coloring in Photoshop. I love to use Brush for creating shadows and highlights. For me, the most important is the size of the brush and what kind of effects that you want to use in Brush tool.


For clean up, just use Eraser tool to delete any part of the color that you do not want it to appear in the drawing. It is the same like Brush, adjust the size of it and choose any kind of effects that you want to use.


And tadaa!!!! Here are the drawing. I submitted this drawing for the contest that I mentioned in previous entry. (Click here if you want to view the entry). And if you want to view the entry that I have submitted, please click here.


And here is another drawing which I used same method like I have shared with you. I'm pretty sure most of you guys are good in drawing and far better than mine. So why not you join the contest and share some of your artwork there. Sharing is caring!~ Hehehe

Thanks for reading this. Have a wonderful day!~