[Sedul]

hrm, I've recently bought a graphire, and i've been using the technique of hard paintbrushs in photoshop.. I am wondering how i can make my shading more "blended" than having definite brush strokes in the final image..

How do u "blend" effectively? wiht a good technique?>

Thanks

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Amateur Graphix Artist

"Maybe I'm just too sexy for you..."

[Liquid!]

Hmmm. Use the "brush" in Pshop with a soft edge, or just airbrush direcly. Either tool should provide you with the result your looking for.

At least that's what I would do for what its worth. Maybe someone else has another way.

-c

[Sedul]

kewl thanks

[Dryfire]

You could also start out with all hard brushes, then use the blur tool (looks like a teardrop) to blur the hard edges, I think it gives a bit more control than the airbrush

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'Reality is just a dream'

[Ian]

i use smudge the most of all tools but it takes SOOOOOO LOONGG to render...how much RAM do you folks have? and should it matter. Is there anyway to tweak photoshop so that it doesn't take FOREVER to render a smudge or blur? thnx
ian

[Ramiranda]

Yes Ian. i have a tip to you.In Brush.Brush options there is an option like Spacing taged.Quit the tag and you�ll see your smudges rapid like the thunder
You can use this with all brushes but i recomend it in larger brushes

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[waylon]

Lately I've been drawing almost solely with hard brushes. The way I get a smooth gradient is this:



Let's say you have two colors (black and white) right next to each other, which you want to smooth. 1) Just pick one of the colors and draw over the edge at about 50% opacity (Or just don't press as hard with your pen.) 2) Then, pick that middle color (gray) over the edges between the gray and black and the gray and white. 3) do this again and again as much as you need to to get a smooth gradient. It's really fast actually when you get the hang of it, since you can just hold "alt" to change the brush to a color picker tool. And it gives you a hell of a lot more control than the airbrush or smudge tools.

[garthmidgley]

I find that I get adequate control from using mostly the airbrush and with shortcuts, it's quite a fast way to work.
With your hand on the mouse (or pen if you have one ) hit the forward and backward bracket keys to cycle through brushes and the numeric keypad for opacity; 1=10, 2=20 etc, 0=100.
Once you get used to these, and it doesn't take long, you'll be flying along.
Also, I've deleted the hard brushes from the airbrush selection set. I only want the soft set in there.

Cheers,

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