Author: kanelfa

Been using that Value checking trick on recent pics and some of my much older and prouder pieces (On some. there’s not much of a difference.)…But. OMG. my values are all over the place. mklnjknjkg.

WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING WITH MY LIFE.

pwnyponymod:

kanelfa:

xdraws:

When something doesn’t look right, but you can’t figure out why, make a copy of your layer and try some of these tricks.  Staring too long at a piece without breaks is often where I “kill” a piece and lose scope of the work as a whole.  Thanks to letsplaygods for the supersaturate trick.

I already flip and value check often. Though those other things seem like pretty niffty tricks to keep in mind when i’m spending more than 4 hours straight on a piece//working on something from start to finish.

I am not sure how many people know about this, but I didn’t know until a friend pointed it out to me recently.

The thing about value checking is that you can’t just desaturate your image. As the name implies that will desaturate them, and the saturation has an impact on the value.

You need to turn it into a grayscale.

Please take a look at these two vids by Sycra and Jordy Lakiere for more info on that.

The Trick Jordy uses is to make a black layer above your image and setting its blendmode to color OR putting one underneath your image and setting the blendmode of your image to Luminosity.

In some images the differences are subtle, but in others..it can make a world of difference.

…WOAH! Gave the Color/Luminosity trick a try within Photoshop. Holy smokes. There’s such a LARGE difference in comparison to simply desaturating the image.  o__o 

Alternatively (If you’re using Easy Paint Tool Sai) The same effect can be done within Sai,

Filter -> Brightness and Contrast -> Color Deepen (-100)

THE MORE YOU KNOW RIGHT??

xdraws:

When something doesn’t look right, but you can’t figure out why, make a copy of your layer and try some of these tricks.  Staring too long at a piece without breaks is often where I “kill” a piece and lose scope of the work as a whole.  Thanks to letsplaygods for the supersaturate trick.

I already flip and value check often. Though those other things seem like pretty niffty tricks to keep in mind when i’m spending more than 4 hours straight on a piece//working on something from start to finish.