[KrassOtti]

Alrighty, this is my first digital painting. I know, the face is fucked right now, but I will fix that later. What I am really am concerned with: How does one achieve very smooth gradients with PS painting?

Are there any tricks or something to get smooth gradients or will I have to take the acrylics route and paint a billions of half tones until it looks relatively smooth?

Any advice how to shade something like her is greatly appreciated:

[surferboi]

i asked that question long ago when my paintings looked like urs.. what i do now is i take a soft brush with stylus opacity, and i shad inbetween my colors a lil bit and color pick that new color and just keep softening up the area till i get a smooth acceptable gradient. hope that helps

[Nex]

you can try the blur tool or maybe smudge.
if you have a wacom activate pressure sensitivity and use low opacity brushes.

[KrassOtti]

Thanks for the replies. I think I know what you mean, Surferboi, but what is "stylus" opacity?

Nex, yeah, I played around with smudge, though that didn't really give me what I wanted, gotta try blur though. [btw, I have a wacom]

-KrassOtti

[TJFrame]

The tool you're looking for is the "Just Add Water" tool in painter. It will blend the way want it to.

-TJ