I can do quite some stuff... Drawings, layouts, icons/avatars, banners, almost any kind of design. You name it, and I'll see what I can do. You go PM me!!
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December 24, 2007 ~ For 12/25
Here are the requests, again! The ones in bold are completed.Shireishou: fan art [Hakuto and her together]
KyatheBattousai: poem/art [this wasn't really a request, though, more like a suggestion] or avatar [...]
Homsar88: fan art [me piled in work]
UzumakiKitai: avatar
clockwork_faerie: avatar
NOTE: If I finished your request, but you never received it, you can PM me for it. I may post up the finished requests, however, again in the near future to show everyone again.
Requested by clockwork_faerie
I also completed the drawing with me piled in work. It should be up by now, so go see it!
Bitmap Tutorial
Some of you asked how I made the picture with me piled in work to look bitmap. Well, okay, I'll tell you!
You Need: Adobe Photoshop
NOTE: Please read this tutorial before you experiment. Or else, try to use a very simple image to use.
** Saving the shades on your image may help you further into the tutorial.
It really doesn't matter what version of Adobe Photoshop you have. The steps are really simple, so all versions should have the tools and options we need.
First take your picture, hand-drawn, if it is.
~ I'll choose this picture as an example.
Open it up in Photoshop, or create a new canvas and paste the image.
If you want to shade your picture first, then create a new layer, use the brush tool and go over the areas you want to shade. I recommend a lighter shade of any color so you can see your line art. To make things easier, set that layer where you're shading to Multiply.
~ Here is my picture after I shaded it and made minor adjustments to it.
This is the end of the harder parts of the tutorial. Now it's just a ride in the park.
Go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. In case it asks, "Discard color information?", just click OK.
Go again and choose Image > Mode > Bitmap.
Then it gives you options to what to input for the bitmap image. It's fine if you don't change anything, but for me, my default options are:
Output: 150 pixels/inch
Use: Diffusion Dither.
Now, there's your bitmap effect. But your image is still gray, so if you want to now add color to it...
Go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. My size ratio was 1.
After that, Image > Mode > RGB Color.
Now add a new layer (you can do this by going to Layer > New > Layer... and click OK with the default settings).
In that new layer, you can use the paint bucket tool (G) and fill the canvas with the color you want the picture to be, or use the gradient tool (G) to create a gradient effect over the image.
After doing so, change that layer style to Darken or Lighten, whichever one is more to your liking.
Unless, you want your picture to have a normal picture's colors, where each shape has its own colors. By this, you will have to paste the shadings you did on the image. After you paste those shadings and adjust them to overlap your bitmap image properly, change the layer style to Darken or Lighten.
NOTE: Pasting the shadings will not have the same dither/bitmap effect.
You can do the same steps for the color overlap (Image > Mode > ... steps) for the same bitmap effect, but if you are keeping the colors of the normal shade, the colors will not be maintained. Unless you create the dither effect and color over it in a new layer with the colors you desire and set the layer style to Darken or Lighten.
Here are my finished products:
~ Paint Bucket Tool
~ Gradient Tool
~ Default Colored Shades
Hope I helped! If you ever use this technique, don't forget to bring me up!
If any part of this tutorial was confusing, feel free to talk to me about it. I know, I stink at explaining.
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