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Soooooo, here it finally is: The Lighting Tutorial, Part 1 :D
Part 2 can be found here.

About the tutorial:
I have no idea how comprehensive this is - it sure was hard to write, harder than my previous tuts. Lighting is such a complex thing and much of what I do is by gut instinct. It was hard to get this gut-feeling-thing written out in a somewhat coherent fashion ^^;

Part 1 deals with the basics, like what should your manip look like before you start, which stock is the most suitable and which questions you should answer before you even start. It shows you how you can add the bigger shadows using gradients and how you can adjust an object's colour to better fit with its environment in a very quick-and-easy way.

Part 2 [link] covers overall lighting and colourizing before showing a different method of setting highlights and shadows than "just painting them in" thus giving you a starting point so you don't have to paint in everything from scratch. Also, it touches on how to get those "really glowy" highlights.


:bulletblue: In any case, I'd appreciate it if you'd let me see what you've created - I'm curious like that.
:bulletblue: Comments & Feedback always welcome :heart:

:bulletred: NO REDISTRIBUTION, NO TRANSLATIONS

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*oos78 Apr 23, 2013  Hobbyist Digital Artist
thanks ;)
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~Pygar-Art Apr 19, 2013  New member
Danke für das Tut und deine Mühe!
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:iconup240:
awesome! thank you. great tutorial.
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*AokitianWolf Nov 24, 2012  Student General Artist
Sweetness! Thank you for putting this up :D
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:iconexcelia:
~Excelia Sep 12, 2012  Professional Traditional Artist
Tried this out on an old peinting. Not sure how to link to it.... It's here: [link]

Thank you for your tutorials.
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~akky3210 Sep 6, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
I actually use GIMP (which, admittedly, lacks some features that Photoshop has), but this actually helped me a lot. I've always found lighting tricky, but this cleared up a lot of things. Thanks!
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:icontoxicsoil:
Thank you for all your time in putting this together! I am unfamair with these concepts as i come from a photgraphy background and sort of fell into manip. I have improved enough where i understand this tutorial on the first pass, but it will take practice to get a feel for this! Thanks.......I found it very useful!
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=kuschelirmel-stock Aug 24, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
thank you so much! Glad it helps!
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:icontoxicsoil:
Thank you again and i will be using those on my next project!
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