Photoshop Question
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- craigatkinson
I have a pencil drawing in photoshop.
I want to add a digital paint mark over the drawing and would normally use a new multiply layer - so the original drawing shows through.
This method works but it darkens the the colour of the new layer. Is there a way of doing something like multiply but retaining the true colour of the multiply layer?
- ian0
Try other layer blending modes, its really trial and error to achieve the closest result to your original layer.
You might even have to do a few duplicate layers at different opacities to get it close.
- craigatkinson0
Yes tried the other blend types - multiply is the best. A merge function with sliders would be ideal!
- GeorgesII0
I understand what you are trying to do, the thing is blending will overlap colors thus making them always darker, the best think would be to create a smart object of the layer you are trying to blend, blend it then play with the color effect untill you reproduce the color you are aiming to,
another thing would be to post an example here and let us play, I'm pretty sure someone will find a better method
- orrinward20
Try using darken? Darken will show whichever shade is darker, rather than multiplying the darkness.
Is the initial drawing colour? If it's B&W create a mask from it's alpha.
- pig0
Could you have the paint mark underneath the pencil drawing?
Doing this...
- ESKEMA0
you really have to play with the colors while being multiplied. You can also add a white layer below the mark masked to the watermark and play with it's opacity to light it up a bit.
- craigatkinson0
- I think the best way to do it would be to remove the patterning from the illustration in post, then scan a plain sheet and put that as the base.orrinward2
- of the nice paper and use that as the base. Separate your illustration from the texture below.orrinward2
- i_monk0
1. Use the High Pass Filter on the pencil drawing. Tweak as needed.
2. Set layer to Overlay above the layer with the colour.
- cbass990
Select>ColorRange>Select black line-drawing>New Layer, fill selection with black. Put paint under that layer... Hide original drawing.
- mikotondria30
^Sounds right. Without thinking about it I would have played with the curves on the drawing layer so the background was properly white, then just made a brush of it and painted underneath an instance of that. I'm lazy and don't think much about doing anything different in ps than I have in years. Good and bad, I suppose.
- yeah i forgot to mention curves before the ColorRange part...so you're selecting all black and not shades of pencil.cbass99