[surferboi]

heh i felt its time i actually asked this question.
personally i dunno how to blend colors well in photoshop. normally i use the smudge tool but it always a pain in the ass so i try to avoid using it. and for painting i have my stylus set to opacity. but lets say i have shades a row of colors for example and i want to blend the shades smoothly. the reason i ask is because a lot of my drawings you can see the jumps in colors i pick very easily and it either end up contrasting too much or not enough. my paintings have no variations =\
so my question basically is do u guys just use the smudge tool, use some method of masking and blur, are u guys all color rambo's and just select enough colors when painting to get good degree's of contrast?
anyways heres an example image..

i hope u guys dont think this is too stupid btw

[SushiMaster]

It's not stupid. The way I've thought of doing it, although I haven't had a chance to thoroughly apply it yet, is to zoom up the area (craig technique of copying a bit of the pic, pasting it in a new file and blowing up the size of that file) and just go over the thing enough to make it look smooth. The cool thing with opacity-pressure-sensitivity with the tablet is that you can, if you have a boundary between two colours, select one colour, go over the boundary at low pressure, then select one of the resulting shades (alt-click for eyepicker when using paintbrush), go over the boundary again, and repeat this lots of time until the damn thing is smooth.

And the question is definitely not stupid. The only stupid questions are the ones you don't ask.

Daniel

[Tinusch]

Well, if your pen is set to opacity, it's basically just something you do manually and get better at over time. I think you're looking at it too technically. You have solid colors blocked it and want to know how to blend them. Not a good way to go about it, in my opinion. Just think about what you want to paint, and paint it. Choose the colors as you go along. If you feel that one of the transitions is too choppy, choose an in-between color work that into it a little bit. Basically just do whatever you feel you need to do. I think using the paintbrush only is the best way to do it, PERSONALLY. Then you don't have to worry about what tools to use to achieve the effect you want. Just think about how to use the paintbrush to get it to create the effect you want.

Me, longwinded about something? Noooo...