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SeaCrest of Adastreia
Water Elemental
Saorise
YOU WILL NEED:
Clip Studio Paint OR a program that handles clipping, folders, and filters or color adjustments
WHAT YOU DO:
STEP ONE
Personally, I modify my base PSDs so that I have one folder clipped to the base layer that contains all my coloring and my shading/highlight layers. I also put all my shading and highlight layers in a folder set to Through or Pass, so I can easily toggle them all at once instead of individually. It ends up looking something like this:
STEP TWO
Time to color! Try to at least keep your colors on separate layers. For the sake of this guide, I have merged several separate marking layers that use the same color so my layers list will fit more easily in a screenshot.
STEP THREE
Now I'm going to lock all my design layers and copy the clipped folder. I'm going to paste that clipped folder above one of my shading layers. Things may look a little strange right now!
NOTE:
Make sure you hide or delete the shading in your copied clipped folder!
STEP FOUR
Now, depending on the colors you used, you may not need to tweak anything, but most times, I will adjust things! I usually use one of the following methods, or a combination of both.
STEP FOUR: OPTION ONE
Add a correction layer to adjust the saturation and luminosity of your shading, and make sure that it's clipped to the shading layer! Keep in mind that due to the mechanics of multiply layers, you'll usually want to lower saturation and increase luminosity!
STEP FOUR: OPTION TWO
Alternatively, you can manually adjust each design layer in the folder clipped to the shading layer. This gives you more control over the final output—particularly when working with really dark or really light colors, you may want to use lighter or more saturated shading colors for specific design layers!
STEP FIVE
Personally, at this point I will merge the shading folders so that I only have one or two layers per shading layer. Then we'll do something very similar; we'll copy the main design folder, this time with the shading on, and paste it above the lineart layer. We'll then add a correction layer to adjust the saturation and luminosity of the lineart. Remember that for lineart, you'll want to decrease luminosity. Personally I like to also increase the saturation!
STEP SIX
Here's where you should patch any areas in the lineart that you aren't happy with.Can you see the differences?
STEP SEVEN
Make sure you save often, especially now you've got everything finished! Now it's time to export and resize your flattened design to 300x300 px for submitting!
Rhowyn aka Lucille
Administrator
Lady Awesomesauce
Lucille
"I, Sesshomaru, have no one to protect." - Sesshomaru, Swords of an Honorable Ruler
"I don't understand a word you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to confuse me."
- Captain Hawkeye Pierce
~Formerly Lucille~
SeaCrest of Adastreia
Water Elemental
Saorise
ScuroFenice the Phoenix Bearer
Designer
Lady of the Odyssey
Victoria
SeaCrest of Adastreia
Water Elemental
Saorise
FireLilly
Ko-fi Bean
The Inquisitive Guardian
FireLilly
SeaCrest of Adastreia
Water Elemental
Saorise
fantabulous weezee
Administrator
Purple Mistress 🦉
Rizzi
Signature Tag by SeaCrest! Thank you so much it's FANTABULOUS!
Come join my chat hangout! zee's zone
FireLilly
Ko-fi Bean
The Inquisitive Guardian
FireLilly
SeaCrest of Adastreia
Water Elemental
Saorise
FireLilly
Ko-fi Bean
The Inquisitive Guardian
FireLilly
Water Elemental
Saorise
Sea's Lazy Design-Finishing Guide
Alternatively: How I typically cheat my way to colored shading & lineart for my designs.
Alternatively: How I typically cheat my way to colored shading & lineart for my designs.
YOU WILL NEED:
Clip Studio Paint OR a program that handles clipping, folders, and filters or color adjustments
WHAT YOU DO:
STEP ONE
Personally, I modify my base PSDs so that I have one folder clipped to the base layer that contains all my coloring and my shading/highlight layers. I also put all my shading and highlight layers in a folder set to Through or Pass, so I can easily toggle them all at once instead of individually. It ends up looking something like this:
STEP TWO
Time to color! Try to at least keep your colors on separate layers. For the sake of this guide, I have merged several separate marking layers that use the same color so my layers list will fit more easily in a screenshot.
STEP THREE
Now I'm going to lock all my design layers and copy the clipped folder. I'm going to paste that clipped folder above one of my shading layers. Things may look a little strange right now!
NOTE:
Make sure you hide or delete the shading in your copied clipped folder!
STEP FOUR
Now, depending on the colors you used, you may not need to tweak anything, but most times, I will adjust things! I usually use one of the following methods, or a combination of both.
STEP FOUR: OPTION ONE
Add a correction layer to adjust the saturation and luminosity of your shading, and make sure that it's clipped to the shading layer! Keep in mind that due to the mechanics of multiply layers, you'll usually want to lower saturation and increase luminosity!
STEP FOUR: OPTION TWO
Alternatively, you can manually adjust each design layer in the folder clipped to the shading layer. This gives you more control over the final output—particularly when working with really dark or really light colors, you may want to use lighter or more saturated shading colors for specific design layers!
STEP FIVE
Personally, at this point I will merge the shading folders so that I only have one or two layers per shading layer. Then we'll do something very similar; we'll copy the main design folder, this time with the shading on, and paste it above the lineart layer. We'll then add a correction layer to adjust the saturation and luminosity of the lineart. Remember that for lineart, you'll want to decrease luminosity. Personally I like to also increase the saturation!
STEP SIX
Here's where you should patch any areas in the lineart that you aren't happy with.Can you see the differences?
STEP SEVEN
Make sure you save often, especially now you've got everything finished! Now it's time to export and resize your flattened design to 300x300 px for submitting!
Administrator
Lady Awesomesauce
Lucille
Thank you so much for doing this!! I was doing something similar, but it wasn't quite turning out how I wanted - I was missing a step. Can't wait to try it out next time I color a pet! Thanks again!
"I, Sesshomaru, have no one to protect." - Sesshomaru, Swords of an Honorable Ruler
"I don't understand a word you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to confuse me."
- Captain Hawkeye Pierce
~Formerly Lucille~
Water Elemental
Saorise
@Rhowyn I hope it helps! It was actually @FireLilly's idea to whip this together lol I am slightly alarmed at just how BIG those images are but I wanted you to be able to see everything...maybe I should have used a simpler design for the example? 
Designer
Lady of the Odyssey
Victoria
I was struggling, trying to figure out how to shade without the shading looking solid. This seems to be able to help me with that. Thank you!
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Water Elemental
Saorise
Ko-fi Bean
The Inquisitive Guardian
FireLilly
Water Elemental
Saorise
Administrator
Purple Mistress 🦉
Rizzi
I tried this out last night, and OMG it's AMAZING! Thank you so much for showing this!
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Signature Tag by SeaCrest! Thank you so much it's FANTABULOUS!
Come join my chat hangout! zee's zone
Ko-fi Bean
The Inquisitive Guardian
FireLilly
@SeaCrest, at the end of step 3, will you add hiding or deleting the highlight/shading folder from the copy of the clipped folder. Zee was able to figure out that I was missing this step, so maybe others are also ? 🤷♀️
Water Elemental
Saorise
@FireLilly I didn't include it because I do not work with my shading on, and it is turned off in all the example images. I can make a note.
Ko-fi Bean
The Inquisitive Guardian
FireLilly
Thank you. I didn't even notice that they were off in step one. 😔 By the time I was trying to figure out step four, I wasn't going up far enough to realize what I was doing wrong (even though I started over at step one several times.) Something that, once pointed out to me, seemed like common sense had me stumped for hours. 😵
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