HD Index Painting in Photoshop

If you remember from last time; Index painting involves using "dirty" tools (tools which lay multiple colors at once) within a pre-defined indexed palette. Photoshop doesn't inherently allow for this behavior. If you index an image in Photoshop all of the "dirty" tools become locked or reduce their functionality to not be dirty. HD Index Painting Why "HD?" You can download the PSD used to create the following gifs HERE So what can it do? Setup The first thing you'll want to do is make sure your eyedropper tool is set to sample "current and below." Second thing you'll want to do is make sure you have your dither patterns defined. That's pretty much all the settings you'll need to change actually. Basic Layer Stack This is where all the magic happens. Paint layer This is the layer you are actually painting on when you pixel. This layer is filled with a dither pattern representing various percentages of dither superimposed. Advanced Layer Setup This isn't the only way of doing things either!

I Am A Wizard Delightfully Tacky: Q + A // what's your post processing routine? I don't do a ton of post processing on my photos. I like my photos to have a pretty natural look. In the past I've tended towards more vintage-y feeling processing, but these days I like to make my photos look as natural as possible. As far as software goes, I currently use Photoshop CS5 along with some Totally Rad actions* for most of my post processing, but I just got Lightroom and I want to start playing around with VSCO presets and figure out that crazy animal. I begin by transferring my photos from the camera to the computer and then proceed to cull out all the ones that I know I won't be using- blurry shots, out of focus shots, shots where I have a stupid look on my face, etc. As far as what I actually do to photos in photoshop, I like to keep it as minimal as possible. I personally find too much post processing to be a bit distracting. Do I think post processing is necessary to create beautiful images? *an "action" is basically a set of filters you apply to a photo.

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