How to use Layers for lighting in digital art
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- How to use Layers for lighting in digital art: In this video i talk about using layers to apply color to your shadows and highlights and how this can improve the lighting in your digital art. i took cues from movies and music videos and applied them to digital art. it is good practice to study movies to improve your art style and expand your knowledge in order to become a better artist. i shall be making more photoshop tutorials on lighting and color within the next weeks.
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another video about lighting maybe???
Ismail sure man!! I’ll definitely try that!!!
Brushes like the one you used for the bounce light thing(?)
Maybe a video about lighting in general will be very useful
Not ps or any software related maybe just basic shading theory
Crea2rs sure man!!!
Quick Notes (For Myself and anyone who needs):
1:43 Base color- more of desaturated colors (middle of color wheel in photoshop)
3:31 Shadow- multiply effect, pick color on the upper part of wheel
4:06 Light- linear dodge, or color dodge, pick color on darker part of wheel
-From here he experiments with different colors for shadow and light-
10:55 Highlights -pick lighter tones (could try the marquee tool he uses) he uses soft brush for this
12:49 Bounce Light- just paints color in areas he picks for effect (uses marquee tool) w/ soft airbrush
If I messed up let me know what it is below and I'll edit it in.
This is awesome!
I might add (in shadow)- non saturated and brighter colors on multiply; (in light ) linear dodge [or add (glow) clip studio] - Darker, saturated colors
I will append you list with other tips that i wish i had known earlier:
The lightest darks are darker than the darkest lights
Ambient occlusion will always be the darkest spots in the scene
Counterintuitively shadows should be warmer and highlights should be colder
Things get lighter greyer less contrasted and more desaturated as they go back in space
Conversely, things closer to the camera are higher contrast more vibrant color with bolder darks
Specular highlights in the immediate foreground off reflective surfaces will always be the brightest things in the scene aside from visible light sources
Things in shadow have less visual fidelity
In line drawing the boldest lines should represent the darkest shadows
this is helpful, thank you
You are so generous with your knowledge man. May Allah bless you!
Ameen
The thing about selecting the light layer and use the selection to erase those areas in the shadow layer blowed my mind.
You ever see an art tutorial so good it instantly improves your art exponentially cuz wow, man
Yes dude, your the first digital artist I've found that actually describes how to properly use color in multiply or linear dodge layer modes! I owe you!
Another great Mohammed class, your advice helps me a lot. Day by day I try to apply this technique and improve my progress. Someday I want to send you a part of my work to get your opinion. I am really very satisfied with my progress and the color was an aspect that I had never addressed sincerely. have a nice day 😀
Thank you so much! Sure I’ll be expecting!
Dude you have no idea what you have just taught me, this is exactly what I was looking for to reduce my guessing time significantly and work more efficiently. Thank you a ton sir, you are amazing.
Great tutorial. Correct color picking for use of the layer modes is not obvious. Thanks for sharing.
i've needed help with lighting for quite a while now and your tutorial helped a lot man!
Thank you soooo much this gonna make my life so much easier with controlling my lighting! Its honestly my weakest point my I'm excited to play around with this! I need go learn more on colour theory like this
Awesome tutorial man! Always looking forward to your vids everyday. They always inspire me to improve my art as I mostly draw anime/comic book characters.
thats awesome man! i'm glad i can be of help!
you are the angel guy who make us understand the basic of magic, respect your work and tut. Can you show your brush setting for coloring because i cant blend smoth like you, thank you so much
thankyou so much man!! i'm glad i can help!!!
Bro, im your fan! your content is to much precious and i learn so much with you. Tnank you!!!!!
This video has singlehandedly solved a roadblock I am currently facing in addition to giving me a lot of options and ideas for the future. Thank you
Seriously, I would have killed to learn this in Uni, I'm so thankful for your tutoirals!
Thank you so much ;-; i always have problems with colors cause i do em too saturated. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge ^^
Thanks for today's lesson! I always learn a lot from you!
I'm used to use several blending modes but roughly usually I use Add mode for Highlights, Multiply for shadows and overlay for bounce lights. Would you care to walk us through the blending modes and dos e don'ts about them? That would help me a ton!
Once again, thank you so much! You Rock!
thankyou man! i'll definitely do that!!!
Very useful tutorial. It will help greatly in my own art. Thank you
Thanks so much! Let me know how it goes!
Man bro very good and useful information in under 20 minutes. Thanks needed this one. 👍👍👍
thanks bro!! i'm glad i could be of help!
Mate, these tutorials are so informative. I was aware of all of these blend modes, but never had any clue or insight in how to use them effectively. Thank you.
Excellent video! Great work! I always struggle with making my colors too saturated.
Good stuff. Just a recommendation as someone who kinda uses the same method, instead of clipping masks, use a single layer for it and save selections instead in the alpha channels. It might not seem like a big deal, it certainly isn't in this case, but when you have multiple characters and whole complicated background, having clipping masks like that adds up, slows down the software, and at least I'd always be scrolling up and down trying to find the layers.
With selections you can just ctrl click with the light layer selected and paint in like it would be a clipping mask, it also helps a lot to have all the selections in a different window (channel one). Ctrl+h to hide the selection dots if you want.
Ahh awesome man! Thankyou so much! I’ll try that out!
Spend my 2days to color in a unnecessary way. Man where were you before 🤩
It's unbelievable how much I've learnt from your channel alone. Great content man!
I've only started coloring digitally 3 years ago. This will help me so much!!
I’m still learning how to use colors better. Thank you for sharing so much! You are really good at explaining!
Thank you, I was a little confused about all the workflow/values way to color =)
I hope the best for you in your art path!
Wow it's insane how easy you make it look. Very well done.
thanks so much!
Thank you so much for sharing this Mohammed!
It was great to know more from you on how to render lights with the Dodge and Overlay mode. As I've been always used with the Screen mode, these two modes always confused me for how different they react with the base color of my pictures. Your video really helped me understand them more!
Soooo useful! Bro, your videos are changing my way of drawing digitally! Thanks!!!
I love these vids!! I’d love to see a background coloring focused one
sure i'll do what i can, and i'll also get a background painter to come talk about his process!
That’s awesome! :D looking forward to it ^^
great tutorial. i've been trying to figure out that style of lighting for a while now... u are really an art guru ...Liked &Sub
Thanks so much! I’m glad I could help!!
just started seeing ur vids...ur very very good at explaining i felt like i was in class..thank you so much brother you made it so easy for me to follow and it works so dam well with my Manga work love u man one love keep it up.
i actually learnt a lot from this tutorial , thanks so so so much great one
Thanks for watching man!!
@@MohammedAgbadi so welcome sir
Onestly I’ve been watching ALL of your tutorial and I find them very helpful. I love what you do so THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH! Really I can’t explain how thankful I am. I needed something like this and you are very talented ! :)
thanks so much!!
Thank you so much! I've been looking at different techniques to see what I will like the most. I think this will be fun!
That’s awesome! Let me know how it goes!
This is so great and comprehensive, thank you so much!
Thanks so much for watching!!!
wow this is just cool .... your ability is very doubtful ... i really like it
Bro u are awesome because of u I have improved greatly
thanks so much bro! i'm glad you are improving bro!!
@@MohammedAgbadi I wish to show u my progress soon but I don't know how
Thank u so much. You helped me a lot! I was making an incorrect use os color tones for my iluminations and shadows! hahahahaha That's why I was always fighting with it. I'm really grateful!
Looking great man!
thankyou so much Dave!
I will watch all those adds for you. Thanks for the lessons!
Ohhhhh so _that's_ how you use desaturated colours. Thanks!
Haha thanks!
Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I was trying out as I was watching, and my art became way better!
Great class! Your work is magic. Thank you for your videos.
I want to watch videos in real work as comic panel with different backgrounds and situations. Thank you so match.
thankyou so much for watching man!!! i could create those as well too!
@@MohammedAgbadi yes, that would be awesome!
Really awesome, thanks man .
This really helped simify my cell shading prosses thank you
Thank you for posting tutorial vids. I look forward to watch more. 👌🙌
Thanks so much!
Nice vod, can't wait for the next, keep 'em coming!
Thankyou man!! I’ll do my best!!!
Love this video man
Masha Allah Mohammed for all videos thanks
thankyou so much !
Ima be real the thumbnail guy looks a little like RDJ- Robert Downey Jr.
Hahah yeah I see it now!!!
Thats why i clicked lol
Another banger! Much appreciated man!
thanks for watching man!!
Thank you A LOT for this!
Thanks man!
anytime!
This is amazingly helpful, thankyou!
ive been doing digital art for literally years and i didnt know about this at all. i feel like im losing my mind lol.
Very useful tutorial, thanks.
Thanks man!
this is helpful thanks fam!
Ayyy, i know a nigerian when i hear one!!
Hahaha!!
You're amazing man love learning from you!
thanks man!
another awesome video, i would love some comic shading tutorials if you don't have already :)
Thankyou so much! I’ll definitely do that!
thank you so much i'm still a beginner with layer mode thing so ur videos are really helpful . one question is that why artist prefer using layer modes instead of choosing the shade they want and use normal mode ?
It's 2024 and I'm here!😅
I loved this
Love your accent
Thanks!
This is so helpful! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for watching!
thanks for this amazing advices bro!
This is so helpful. Thank you so much!
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Anytime!
I am currently struggling to understand any tutorials that regard making masks in order to help with painting highlights. I'm looking forward to understanding this stuff one day.
Hollaaaaa Mohamed
Great job!
Thanks man!!!
Wow that's cool
Thanks man!!!
awesome tutorial
Thankyou man!!!
Hello! Can you give a hint on which brush or the best way to make nano-style artwork in photoshop?
sure man! i will!
@@MohammedAgbadi thank you ! and once again congratulations on the channel.
Apparently I love Nigerian accents🥰 keep it up bro:)
Thankyou! I’ll do my best?
make a video about color metals to give the cromatic effect of it pls
Awesome I can do that!!!!!
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thank uu ,,, i love it
Thankyou man!!!
So around 13:00 what are the blue glow lights that are coming from the bottom? :Oc I'm curious, are they from a floor lighting? I'm hearing boss lighting lol
Hahaha floor! Not boss!
I think he said "bounce lighting" like it's reflecting back up.
Gabriel Celeste yes hahaha bounce !
Hi Mohammed! I loved the video! I just have one question... is there a reason why you aren't using adjustment layers to color the shadows and lighting? For example using a solid color adjustment layer could help you change the color of the layer without having to use the hue and saturation tool. Or when shading you could also use "x" with the adjustment layer to erase or color in more easily. I'm just wondering if there's a specific reason, I don't want to criticize your way of working because everybody has a different way to work.
Yeah man I tried it but I love this technique! It’s faster for me!
hey! great video, thanks. just a question, what shortcut do you use to open the hue/saturation box of the layer?
Cmd u
Hi , the other of the lay ers is very importan right? thx
Yes there are
Thank youu!! :D
Thankyou for watching !!!
What is the shortcut key for the hue and saturation?
It’s cmd + U or ctrl + U on windows!
@@MohammedAgbadi thanks sir
Great vid, just wondering..how many pages can you finish in a day, or a week?thanks!
JinWoo 2-3 pages a day. If I’m focused
@@MohammedAgbadi wow great! Thanks for the reply..your videos are really helping a lot!
JinWoo Thankyou for watching man!!!
Can this same technique be done in illustrator?
How you change the color in 6:27 . I really want to know
Hei dude. I wanted to ask you for the picture in the thumbnail? Where can I see the original?
Does anyone know how he changes the hue and saturation without having to create an adjustment layer?
Cmd u is the shortcut
Mohammed Agbadi ahh thank you that’s been racking my brain I’ve been trying to figure it out. I really don’t use enough command short cuts. Thanks a lot. Been learning a lot from you man.
Don't use wrong thumbnail.
BTW good content👍
Navyug Gaming thanks man!!!
question, why are you using linear dodge and not overlay or screen? super curious about this
Linear dodge makes the colors brighter and saturated, overlay mixes the colors a bit depending on their calues
linear dodge keeps the colours intense, overlay gives only a moderate glow(?) and screen is just overlay but whiter haha
pretty much
first commment, yeah
ahahah thanks man!
whats the shortcut at 6:25 ??
new intro
jhaagga yesss!!!
In what way do I have to work so that my work can be printed well? in CMYK or rgb?
You can print in rgb and convert to cmyk but it’s advisable to work in cmyk dorectly
@@MohammedAgbadi great! Thanks!