need help inking in photoshop

[whitetaileddeer]

http://sashas.deviantart.com/art/The...orial-32788129

I found this tutorial on inking in photoshop. The Brush settings have been very helpful. I appreciate the responses to my inquiry. Thank you Thankyou

[SlimPickens]

I've never seen this particular vid but I know Bryan Haberlin has a digital inking tutorial video for photoshop. I've seen a few of his other vids and they are pretty informative. In a lot of video tuts you just get to watch someone work and then they voiceover what they are doing but Bryan actually walks you through things step by step. He tells you what brush settings he's using and things like that. Plus you get the PSD files with the cd anda few ABR brushes along with some other goodies. The vids are usually about 2 hours long so you get a decent amount of info for only 25 bucks. If you're dishin out cash for new software then you might consider the vid first.

Heres a link to the distributor site:
http://digitalarttutorials.com/tutorial_detail.php?id=7

[Constructobot]

Hello, New to these forums.

I've been looking over this thread on Manga Studio, and still want to know if the process of freehand inking is "better" with this program than Photoshop. I think I read something along the lines saying the tools in MS were easier to work with or something. How so? I am thinking of making the purchase of this software (have been using PS for many years) but I'd really like to know how it handles the actual freehand inking process better.

Thanks!

[Inkthinker]

Simple answer: I think it is, yes. I prefer Manga Studio to PS for straight-up B&W illustration.

[Inkthinker]

It has a larger variety of pre-existing brush and pen settings specifically designed to mimic traditional tools. I'm not sure what all the detailed differences are, I just know I've used both extensively for line illustrations, and Manga Studio consistently provides a more natural-feeling line. Part of it might just be the hi-res bitmap drawing, which you can do in Photoshop too, but I don't know.

There's other little advantages. For instance, I know what you're talking about, flipping between brush and eraser. In Manga Studio, you can hotkey between drawing with black, white and transparent using the same brush tool. This makes negative space strokes a breeze, and much more convenient than trying to use two different tools together.

It also has a superior curved-lines tool... the only way in PS I know of to get a nice smooth curve is with a stroked path, but in MS you have a series of tools specifically designed for drawing curves, already set up with a focus towards line drawing.

I didn't even get into Focus Rulers (which is great for locking to a vanishing point).

Photoshop is meant to do a wide range of things, and line drawing is least amongst them... Manga Studio (formally Comic Studio, and it makes me cry a little inside every day that they changed the name) is built much like Photoshop, but designed for line drawing.

[mattchee]

It has a larger variety of pre-existing brush and pen settings specifically designed to mimic traditional tools. I'm not sure what all the detailed differences are, I just know I've used both extensively for line illustrations, and Manga Studio consistently provides a more natural-feeling line. Part of it might just be the hi-res bitmap drawing, which you can do in Photoshop too, but I don't know.

I think when they designed the drawing dynamics, they had DRAWING in mind, and not photo touch up (which is PS's primary focus, though its used for so much more these days). I think that weighs heavily into why drawing in MS feels so much better.

Another nice feature is the line correction setting. This is important because in photoshop, in order to get a nice line without wobbles you have to zoom in to 100%-- which is really tight when you're talking about a 600dpi file. With manga studio you can zoom in or out as much as you need and always get a nice line.

[Think Tank Bob]

I'd like to use Manga Studio more, but my computer kinda putters along when I use it, so I stick with Photoshop. When I update to a new iMac (someday...) I'll mess with Manga Studio more.

Strange that it runs Photoshop just fine...

Anyway, my trick in Photoshop is the Pencil tool. I never use the brush. I use the pencil tool at 600 DPI, and it seems to work pretty well for me.

Here's a link that explained all the hows and whys of the pencil: Dean Trippe's LJ.

The lines will look kinda jagged up close, but they turn out really nice when you zoom out to the size it will be seen at.