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Tutorial - Blending a Character into the BGby =Lhuin

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I originally wanted to make a video of this but never did so thought I could make it a tutorial like this.
Something I've been asked about earlier and thought I'd share it

I always enjoy doing this part in my pictures!

Not much to say about it though here, but let me know if you have any questions or if anything's unclear. Wrote the texts pretty quickly so it might have some derps but hopefully not haha!

It works at least in photoshop, but it should work in any other programs that have a Gaussian Blur... thing or something similar at least.

Hope you like it!!

characters used in this are (c) to their owners!

edit: added some little things!

love 1 1

joy 4 4

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~Nivvy26 May 8, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

THIS was my problem, thank youuu

~KariTBB May 8, 2013 Student General Artist

That is SO useful! I had trouble with various drawings where the character would simply stand out too much. I hope that will help me to finally deal with this problem

Thanks a lot for posting this!

~thelonelyfruitcake Apr 27, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

I'll have to try thiso ut

~ThirdEcho Apr 19, 2013 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Why the hell didn't I think of doing it this way? Thanks brosafina.

~Anyura Mar 23, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Hah, nice idea, thanks!

=Toyger Mar 8, 2013 Student Digital Artist

This is something that has always bothered me. Wow, this is so simple, yet so effective! Thanks for sharing!!

*TheSpeed0fLlight Mar 2, 2013 Student Filmographer

This photo here: [link]

I'm sorry I didn't realize the thumb nail wouldn't work on comments >.<

~Taaragh Mar 2, 2013 Student General Artist

From the looks of it, it should, as long as you use the color you want the glow to be (and it's still from the background). Of course you'll have to pay attention from where the light bounces from, etc.

In short, yes.

*TheSpeed0fLlight Mar 2, 2013 Student Filmographer

Actually, I was wondering, will adding this extra lighting source also give the line art that "glow" for example, this picture you did here: :thumb357062870: is outlined in a beautiful glow, if I follow this tutorial will I to get this effect on my pictures?

Thank you for this tutorial, and your beautiful photos

=Lhuin Mar 2, 2013 Student General Artist

Ah yea, another thing I might do (and did in that pic) is simply duplicate the lineart layer ad use gaussian blur on the new layer that's on top. And erase the blurred lineart where the character's eyes and other details on the face are (just to make those areas look sharper). Then on that picture too I just made a new layer on the Soft Light setting on top of everything and drew there around the character with a big soft, round brush

so it depends on the picture a bit but the thing I do in this tutorial is what I normally do in every lineart picture in any case, and then if needed add extra things like I mentioned above. x3

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