Photoshop actions can be a real time saver and they are easy to create if you know how. Here’s a guide to creating very basic actions in Photoshop.
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Judge Dredd Speed Paint Video
Watch me color this Judge Dredd piece.
Learn 2 Color Comic Books: Unifying Your Colors
After flatting a comic book page I like to begin unifying my colors and establish the mood. Here’s how I do that.
The line art used in this video is by Stefano Raffaele
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Learn 2 Color Comic Books: Speed Up Your Flats
Looking to speed up the time it takes you to flat a page of line art? Try the approach and see if it helps.
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Learn 2 Color Comic Books: Resizing Flats
If you ever have flats that were done at the wrong size, instead of re-flatting the page try this handy technique.
The line art used in this video is by Stefano Raffaele
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Learn 2 Color Comic Books: How To Flat a Comic Book Page
The first step to coloring a comic book page is laying down the flat colors. Here’s how its done.
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Learn 2 Color Comic Books: Retro Comics
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Dirk Gently #2 Color Process GIF
Color Process: Star Trek/ Green Lantern Cover
This one is for all the process junkies out there. Here are images of each step in the coloring process I used on the Star Trek/Green Lantern #5 cover I colored awhile back. The line art is by David Williams.
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First here’s the original line art as I received it.
Here’s the adjusted line art with the blue lines removed. (Click the image to see how that was done)
Flat colors, using local colors.
I added a 40% color fill to help unify the flat colors and a few multiply fills to the foreground elements to begin creating some depth.
Here’s how it looked after the rendering stage. I used multiple layers set to a linear dodge to add the green highlights, and a few with some blue reflected light to help set off the figures.
Here’s the final image with the special effects added. The glow around Green Lantern and his power ring shield was done with the polygon tool with a little bit of feathering. I also used various custom fractal brushes to create some “energy wisps” coming off the shield (cause it looks cool). The swirls in the shield itself was done by sampling a photo of a bubble.
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