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black & white pictures getting colored Mii
Ok /e/, yesterday I was asked to color all of the black and white pictures of this set, but some of the pictures are kinda boring, so now's your change to get your favorite b&w picture(s) colored. I'm feeling a bit bored sometimes and want to photoshoop something, but am too lazy to draw something new. At those moments its good to have some b&w pictures to color, just to get the time to fly faster. So if you want some pictures colored, post them here and I'll save all of them and color them when ever I feel like it, and then post them on /e/ when they're ready.

First I'm going to post some pictures I have colored already and then some pictures I want to color myself!
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I believe I have started this quite some time ago, but cant find the .psd file. Will keep on looking tho!
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>>485609
same with this one
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I think you were considering this pic but didn't know who the girl on the right was. I'm pretty now that it's Cagalli from GSD.
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>>485614
lol, was just going to post that picture and went "wtf" when it complained about duplicate :p
But yes, thats the one I want to color the most and I think I will at least try to separate the girls, so I can make wallpapers of both of them.
And thanks, easier to color it when I know who she is and what colors to use.

(also might color this one)
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and pretty surely this one too
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and thats all. Now post something you want colored!
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this one would be nice
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>>485623

this please,if you don't mind me asking this question but how does one do coloring?
>> Mii
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open picture in photoshop -> put the picture you want on TOP layer and set the blending mode to multiply (or some other mode, try them all out!) OR keep the picture itself on bottom layer and color on layers on top of it, this way you'll have to change the color layers blending modes.

Also if coloring a picture with b&w colors on it already, you'll have to choose very light colors. Like in>>485595I used really light shade of blue to color it, because the swimsuit was already really dark. But if its too hard to find the right shade, just color with any color first, then select the layer transparency you colored on and its a lot easier to color it again and again this way, without going over the lines.

If you want, I can post some .psd files of the pictures I have colored, so you'll see how its done.
>> Anonymous
>>485698
Sure would be fun to give it a go
>> Kebinu !GhiZeo/aQQ
It has to be done carefully though, if screentones were used for the original shading adding color to it can look really awkward and fake. Cel-shading is way easier because it just deals in solid colors. The only trick is knowing where the colors stop and start.
>> Colour retouch style examples Ragnarok Online
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Yakitate Japan manga scanslation had a colouring contest posted in vol 14 of their scanslation. Here is the original and I will post some of the colourization examples to show the variety of styles of recolouring. This way, I think the people reading this thread will see a better variety of colour retouch STYLES.
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Standard photoshop gradient style. This approach uses the existing lineart as if it were a colouring book with the whitespace an area to be filled in.
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Another standard photoshop gradient style. This approach uses the existing lineart as if it were a colouring book with the whitespace an area to be filled in.
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please post an example psd
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Now, you do NOT have to religiously use the existing lineart as if it were a colouring page. This artist used the lineart as a guide to redraw the lineart and shadows to his preference.

>>485674

The typical way is to put the original lineart in the bottom layer and then redraw over it on a wacom.
>> colour retouch style example Ragnarok Online
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Another example where the existing lineart is used as a guide. The artist put the lineart on the bottom layer and then used a gradient line on another layer to obtain the initial outline. What's nice is the addition of water to the image.

IMO the image is unfinished since the gradient lines still need a little more blending, but this was just one of those little scanslation art contests, so the artist prolly gave herself a short time limit.
>> Anonymous
As a complete amateur at all of this, I like the looks of>>485836best,>>485848relies too much on gradients imho and as a result the colors are to overpowering.>>485861is better, but somehow I still don't like it very much, the color is also a bit too strong, the choice of skin tones is just too saturated.>>485866would be good if it's finished and some line-art added back in. As it is it's lacking definition, but the coloring itself is better than the others, and on the whole almost as good as>>485836. If it were finished it would probably be the best, instead of getting second place.

Anyway, this is just my personal opinion. I evidently favor clean art with subtle colors.
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AirGear scanslations team #scum-scans (scum-scans.com) also encouraged fans to pick out their favourite B/W images and colourize them. AirGear is by OhGreat! so there are plenty of provacative poses available.

Here is the B/W original scan followed by an example colourized version.
>> colour retouch style example - Air Gear Ragnarok Online
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Colourized Ringo from Air Gear scanslation series (#scum-scans) Chapter 57. If you are looking for an ecchi manga with a lot of cleanly-drawn large images, then Air Gear is a reasonable choice.

I wonder if one day, there would be a fan group that released re-packs of existing scanslated manga, but colourized selected major B/W images. I've often wanted something like that to go along with the released scanslations.
>> Anonymous
>>485999
If there's a fancolored page in the scanlations I download I always delete them.
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>>485861
I like this one of the Yakitate pictures the most. The shading reminds me a bit of Hyung Tae Kims works. But I dont think that the lineart in this one is redrawn, the one who just colored it, gave the lines some color. The picture looks so much better when black lineart gets some lighter color on it in the places where light hits it, looks less heavy and makes the lines look more like a part of the picture.

But to show you my usual way of coloring, here's one of my drawings. It's a bit old, but since I have posted this here once before, I'll post it again.
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How's this?
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Mii, here's something that had to have significant amounts of editing before the B/W images could be colourized - Slut Girl manga. Someone did a pretty good job on colouring Slut Girl. Since Isutoshi used zip-a-tone, a fair amount of editing was needed to remove it before adding the colour. Distro got yanked due to vendor whose name I cannot say.

The B/W version with larger pages is at ye olde reliable boxtorrents: http://www.boxtorrents.com/details.php?id=127492

Shown is a reduced-size B/W followed by a colourized example by the fan-made colour version of Slut Girl (multiple contributor).
>> colourized Slut Girl manga Ragnarok Online
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The colour version of Slut Girl had multiple contributors to finish it. Here is an example from one of the contributors. Note how the B/W image was edited prior to colourization since use of colour is bad when a lot of shading lines or zip-a-tone is present.
>> Anonymous
>>486443
Damn man that's beautiful. I hate to give praise but you got skills pal.
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>>486443
Ooh, I like these.
Let's see...
The painting,
the painting frame,
the sun & clouds,
the track lights,
the panels by the door,
the computer connectors,
and the illumination of her face in the next-to last panel.
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Mii, the final version by that anonymous contributor was then finished to look like this when it was determined that "Moar is Better". That way, it look less like a "colouring book" style approach and more like a new version of the old classic B/W Slut Girl manga.
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>>485698If you want, I can post some .psd files of the pictures I have colored

Do this
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I would love for this to be colored. Thanks.
>> Mii
Ok, before I can give you anything would someone please explain me how to post .rars on 4chan? I thought I remembered it, but seems like it didnt work the way I thought
>> Anonymous
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just rapidshare them or something, unless it's smaller than the image limit, then you can do the jpg+rar thing
I can tell you how to do that on unix but not windows...
>> Mii
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I decided to color this picture with the style I usually use when drawing something, so I will show that to you guys and gals when I get it ready. And I chose to color that because it was easiest to clean of those

>>486553
Uploading to rapidshit makes my computers ass hurt, so I uploaded it in megaupload: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZTSOKHYN It hurt my computers ass too, but not that much. My computer sucks
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Work in progress
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how is this effect achieved or is it even an effect?? i've always liked this effect but never knew how to do it does anyone know??? what im talking about is the girls outline and not the computer thing
>> Anoniminous
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Mii, I always imagined that girl would be a brunette with brown eyes. Also, massive kudos for coloring one of the sexiest pictures on the internet. Period.
>> Anonymous
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Is the automatic merger from bookchan fine too?

http://www.anonib.com/bookchan/index.php?t=965
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can't wait for it
>> Anonymous
aw man i have been asleep i could have colored somthing. My tablet is all connected and shit, damn.
>> Mii
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What tablet does anonymous have?

>>486896
glad you like it. First I was going to color her hair dark blue, but changed it to more neutral brown, and I like it more this way too.
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The only thing about people who do photoshop colors that I don't like is that people almost always color the skin as if they're doing hard light against hard darkness with blunt skin tone contrasts. This is my WIP that still needs work, but you can see how I went for subtle skin tone contrasts since it appears to be in direct sunlight.
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>>487287
Well, thats how you like them. I like darker shadows and ligher highlights, that way they are more visible adds more depth to the picture. But thats just my opinion