Course curriculum
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1
Getting Started
- Introduction to the course
- Course outline
- Tools of the trade
- What is a colorist?
- Downloads & attachments
- Photoshop presets installation
- Manual tool settings
- Optional Photoshop add-ons
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2
Line art preparation
- Downloadable line-art
- Line-art settings
- Cleaning up line-art with levels
- Layer setup
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3
Photoshop tools - tips, tricks & settings
- Information on the tools lessons
- Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
- My custom keyboard shortcuts
- Lasso tool
- Bucket tool
- Magic wand tool
- Brush & pencil tool
- Gradient tool
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4
Color theory
- Introduction to color theory
- Hue, saturation, & value explained FREE PREVIEW
- Warm and cool color concepts
- Complementary color schemes
- Complementary scheme examples
- Analogous and monochromatic scheme examples
- Color context (When red is not red!)
- Avoiding muddy colors with my "K" rule of thumb
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6
Storytelling Concepts
- Introduction to rendering
- Storytelling examples
- Working with planes (foreground, midground, background)
- Separations and panel layers
- Checking your values
- Level of detail
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7
Rendering
- The "Layer via copy" trick
- Lighting angles (Where is the light source?)
- "Cut and grad" rendering style
- Cel-shaded rendering style
- Painterly rendering style
- "Flat" rendering style
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8
Coloring walkthrough (what we've learned so far)
- Walkthrough - Part 1
- Walkthrough - Part 2
- Walkthrough - Part 3
- Walkthrough - Part 4
- Walkthrough - Part 5
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9
Advanced coloring techniques
- Color holds (changing the color of the line art)
- Texture overlays
- Primer on technical concepts
- Using Brush Modes (Overlay, Screen, etc)
- Special effects (glows, fire, etc)
- How surfaces impact rendering
- Multiple light sources & "bounce" light
- Using Color Mode layers to shift color
- Layer masks
- Adjustment layers for non-destructive editing
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10
Final page preparation
- The Beginning of the End!
- Preparing pages for print with CMYK conversion
- Batch processing
- Preparing pages for use on the Internet
- Project organization tips
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11
The "business" of comic book coloring
- How to build your portfolio (with advice from my editor friends!)
- Finding work as a colorist
- Tips on collaborating with other creators
- My story about how I "broke in"
- Exit survey
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12
Bonus video tutorials
- Bonus #1: Real-time coloring walkthrough (fully narrated)
- Bonus #2: Gradient maps & more storytelling tips
- Bonus #3: Real-time coloring demo (video only)
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