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Digital Coloring

Since my scanner has decided to crap out on my details, and since I am always open to new media, I have decided to break out the digital programs and get serious at learning how to use them. I know the main fundamentals, however I am not that good with it. Every attempt I have made to color pictures on the computer have thus yielded upsetting results or I got so bored with them, because of how long and tedious the process was, that I never got around to finishing them. (I know and accept the possibility that there is no shortcut and that getting good will come with time, and arduous work.)

Does anyone here know of or have some good digital coloring tutorials?

Mainly I am looking for a more realistic way to blend color without resorting to the smudge tool. I have tried the blur tool but found the results a little fuzzy (no pun intended). I am really trying for photorealism as best I can with art in general. I can toon but I am not proud of my tooning ability.

I use a hard edged brush with my pressure set to opacity, and hit the hot-key for the color picker in order to catch colors along edges to blend it.
For softer edges I just use barely any pressure on the pen and work over the area, although you could just as easily switch to a soft-edged brush and lay down the color that way.

Scraffic said: I use a hard edged brush with my pressure set to opacity, and hit the hot-key for the color picker in order to catch colors along edges to blend it.
For softer edges I just use barely any pressure on the pen and work over the area, although you could just as easily switch to a soft-edged brush and lay down the color that way.

Sadly my tablet is out of service. Ever since I upgraded my computer to a faster gaming model, the sensitivity on the tablet has skyrocketed to "you have to draw in mid air to get anything decent" status. I tried tinkering with the settings to no avail, and sadly the model is no longer supported. I had a Wacom Graphire 4. So right now I am stuck with mouse.

Did you try downloading the latest driver for the Wacom Graphire 4? The website still has it: http://www.wacom.com/productsupport/select.cfm I don't know if it will help, but it might.

Not at me but glad you posted those drivers, my ickle graphire3's was WAY out of date. No idea why but the tablets being a lot less tetchy than it's been of late, it usually goes nuts in Photoshop yet there hasn't been one spaz attack in five minutes where it'd usually have at least 11.

I'm probably speaking too soon but if this is any indcation... Thanks for linking I'd never have known otherwise :)

Unfortunately I will probably have no access to it for a while. I recently moved and sadly will have to move again, so I can't really tear into my piles of stuff, considering I don't own the place I am in. (Long complicated story). I'm pretty sure that when my fiancee and I tried updating it last time she and I either found out the model wasn't supported or that it might have been an earlier Graphire. I can't remember. I know I kept the tablet though, just in case we figured out a way to get it to work. But I just remember it being so much easier to control than a mouse.

Graphire 4 is certainly supported as is my 3. It was a bit fiddly having to uninstall my drivers, resetting then putting on the new as mine were that dated. There's a good chance yours will be up there too.

I will definately look into it after I move.