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09 Jul 2014 19:23 #1376 by Charlotte
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This one (code snippet)?



I still suggest you just use the Attachments to add it directly to your post... ;)
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09 Jul 2014 19:25 - 09 Jul 2014 19:26 #1379 by Stuart
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Yep, that one. Here's what happens if I attach it:



Edit: In preview the attachment doesn't show up, hence I assumed it wasn't working either. There we go then.
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09 Jul 2014 19:29 #1383 by Charlotte
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:P
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09 Jul 2014 19:42 #1393 by Stuart
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Thanks btw. ;)

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09 Jul 2014 19:49 - 09 Jul 2014 19:50 #1395 by Digital Dave
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Hey Stuart, just an FYI. You can also go in and edit/delete pics that you loaded. Just clcik on User Panel, and you should see any/all images that you loaded here. ... The editing features are under the Action setting to the right. You should see one for each image loaded.
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09 Jul 2014 21:20 #1401 by Stuart
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Thanks Dave, I can't see how to delete it though. I can edit it fine, but not delete. Is there some tiny little button squirrelled away somewhere that only women can find!?

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09 Jul 2014 21:24 #1403 by Charlotte
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I decided to try both methods demonstrated above but I have to admit it's a bit difficult "translating" things from Photoshop to ArtRage.

I intended to show the original to the left, Evil's advice regarding brightness and a Multiply layer in the middle and Valence's advice regarding the initial values and a Color layer to the right. But after trying to remember what shades I'd used in the middle and selecting them again, I realised I could just copy the paint (duh) and well... That looked awful.

So what I ended up with is a multiply layer and mostly bright colours in the middle, a colour layer to the right, set to 50 or so 0percent opacity because before that it looked garish. And a combination of the two layers, both at reduced opacity, to the left.



Personally I think I like the middle one best, but the right most certainly comes out brighter and less "muddy". I guess the right most could have looked entirely different with other colours though...

And regarding colours... This is the colour wheel in ArtRage... This one is called LS/H picker, where I assume L is Lightness? Since the central colours are greyish (and the "bottom left" is dark, "top right" light) I went for the colours closest to the rainbow like thingymagicky. But they're probably just the most saturated colours, not the brightest ones. I could also set the colour wheel to LH/S or SH/L but that just makes them even harder for me to understand... In conclusion I probably chose the wrong colours for BOTH versions of the image... :P

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09 Jul 2014 22:06 - 09 Jul 2014 22:12 #1406 by evilrobot
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I think the values need a bit of tweaking that's why there is so much mud I think the multiply method really has to have the values pretty close to work. If you worked on the value layer a bit with some lighter value and smoothed out some of the transitions a lot of that would go away. Valence's way seems to work pretty good with out too many tweaks though. I like the version you did with that method too. I'l have to have another look at Artrage when I get home I thought there was another color picker I downloaded for it that worked a lot better but it's been a while since I used the program.

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09 Jul 2014 22:15 #1407 by Valence
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I never really use multiply layers because they just darken the image way too much. You have to have the layer set to a really low opacity and the colour you use looks very different to the result that ends up on the screen and this is VERY apparent when you try to pick a colour off the image to paint with.
In the example I posted both the colour layer and the soft light layer were used at 100% and painted with a brush with pressure set to opacity and in this way the choice of colour and the way you use it is not too different to painting "normally".

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09 Jul 2014 22:25 - 09 Jul 2014 22:30 #1408 by Digital Dave
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Thanks Dave, I can't see how to delete it though. I can edit it fine, but not delete. Is there some tiny little button squirrelled away somewhere that only women can find!?


:blink: I wouldn't know.. I'm not a gurl. :P

There isn't a button so to speak, but if you look at the bottom area, below the image, you will see a red, round icon with an exclamation mark in it. See attached pic below.

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