Can I be vulnerable over here? I never learned how to color grayscale drawings agdhdhsh I’ve seen tutorials and done so many google searches and it never looks good 🧍 I tried so many times - ThreadSky

amontis.bsky.social • 104 days ago

Can I be vulnerable over here?

I never learned how to color grayscale drawings agdhdhsh
I’ve seen tutorials and done so many google searches and it never looks good 🧍
I tried so many times

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lyrren.secondlife.bio•104 days ago

I could explain it if you wanted? It's really easy

amontis.bsky.social•104 days ago

Sure!

lyrren.secondlife.bio•104 days ago

Just making sure I understand the context. You are wanting to know how to paint in greyscale or are you wanting to know how to color an already fully greyscale picture?

amontis.bsky.social•104 days ago

Color an already grayscale drawing!!

lyrren.secondlife.bio•104 days ago

Ok so... you wanna either manually or magic wand and get the area you wanna be coloring in selected and filled any color on a new layer under it. Make a new layer and clip it to hold the alpha of the layer below. These clips are where you do all your coloring make as many as you want.

lyrren.secondlife.bio•104 days ago

Then turn the top greyscale layer into an overlay. Tweak to your hearts content. Extra make a duplicate of the greyscale and saturation shift to be more lighter and set that as an even lighter overlay for lost highlights. All colors below should shine through.

kineia3.bsky.social•104 days ago

Same 😭 If I paint in grayscale, I try using different light modes for the color layer but it’s always washed out or too dark, etc. I end up merging to color-correct or just painting over

amontis.bsky.social•104 days ago

EXACTLYY 😭

jusniffles.bsky.social•104 days ago

The answer (for me) is gradient maps!!
Recoloring grayscale values using overlays of other colors always end up too muddy for me, or the color combos just don't have enough range of hue and value for my liking. (1/4)

jusniffles.bsky.social•104 days ago

Instead, I do all of my values in grayscale using 50% gray as my base tone. Once I'm done, I merge the values into one layer, set that layer to "overlay", and create a gradient map on the grayscale layer (I duplicate it just in case I make any mistakes on the layer I'm using). (2/4)

jusniffles.bsky.social•104 days ago

A gradient map allows me full control over the colors of my shadows, highlights, midtones, and everything in between. I can make my values as saturated or muted as I want to, as light or as dark as I want, etc etc. (3/4)

jusniffles.bsky.social•104 days ago

Additionally, since the values are on an overlay layer, you can change the opacity of the layer to make the values as intense as you'd like.
If you'd like me to reply with some pictures/examples, or have any questions, feel free to let me know!! :3 (4/4)

amontis.bsky.social•104 days ago

I tried out these aswell, but I'm not sure how to use gradient maps to correctly color, say, an oc with specific colors and markings

solluxarts.bsky.social•104 days ago

No because me too, why is it so hard....

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