Hi, I read Flederfalle's thread and watched Lucys tutorial, which helped a lot. My problem now is - when I open a PSD that is not a limited genus like pony, unicorn etc. I have the plain drawing without shades, like this:



After seeing Lucys tutorial I tried to find that clipmasking thing and was able to do a right click and use which means like 'reconvert clip mask' or 'do clip mask backwards' and then get the shaded version:



Now it seems I could work with that and was happy about finding a solution, but I just opened the Kitsori psd and when I do the 'clip mask backwards' there the picture has a colored background:



Means, when I save the png I will have a background? Do I need to somehow change that bg to transparent then or is there a way to avoid getting that bg?
Resp. - is this the correct way to get the shades at all or do I have to do something totally different?
Any help would me muchly appreciated^^

thank you girls It looks like this now, is that correct? I found layer 'shine' and left it out the clipping, but there was no layer by the name 'line'. I think it could be the layer right under the 'shine' by the name 'layer2' (cus all lines are gone when I make it invisible ) If that is the one I will take it out the clipping.

(Edit: I am not sure if the cyan parts are actually meant to be blue like the rest? When I make 'Feathers' and 'Tail' invisible it has the blue tone like the body)

Ok, thanks a lot for the help!!