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Published: 2016-01-25 07:00:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3770; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 17
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Enjoy my crappy and short Paint Tool SAI tutorial which explains(?) what "Clipping Group" and "Preserve Opacity" layer options do and why you should absolutely learn to use them! This crappy tutorial is aimed at SAI beginners, and I hope it helps lol xDDownload and view in full so you can actually read it.. xDD
If you have any questions regarding this tutorial, feel free to ask!
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I'm having a problem with this :S
The thing is: I was coloring really fine using preserve opacity, but at a certain time, it started to color in grey, even if my brush was set to purple. Even if I change the color, it's still grey. But when I unselect the 'preserve opacity' it does color in purple. At the moment I can't color anything cause it becomes grey with the preserve opacity on
Do you know why this is hapenning?
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Are you using the "brush" tool? Because that and a couple other softer type brushes have "blending" in their settings by default which causes them to mix with the colors that are already present on the layer. I'd recommend trying making a new layer and using clipping group so you can keep that color from blending into the others - if that is the problem. There could also be because youre coloring too close to the edges (where there is no color) Ive noticed that a lot of blendy brushes tend to sometimes blend in some of the whiteness/other oberflow colors that might not even be visible within the set boundaries youve set with the preserve opacity/selection! If neither of those, or switching brushes, or tweaking their blending features to the minimum dont help then I dont know how to help sadly x(
Personally i mostly use the pen and airbrush tools for coloring and i religiously use clipping group over preserve opacity so i rarely encounter this kind of problems.
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Thank you very much! It is very easy to understand clipping group, even better than the tutorial on Youtube.
Only the preserve opacity still confuse to me. I heard many people said they use it the same way as clipping group, so I am confused.
If I put the swirls on another new layer with clipping group on, do I get the same result? If it is the same result, what is the point to use preserve opacity?
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Yes, preserve opacity is basically the same as clipping group, the only difference being that you don't need to make a new layer to use it. I think of it as situational, you can use preserve opacity to for example quickly recolor everything on that whole layer if needed, or if you're deliberately using brushes that mix with the colors already on that layer, you could use preserve opacity to mix the colors further without having to worry about going over the "limits" of the layer. It can also work as a lazy person's clipping group because it's essentially faster to use than clipping group, if you know that you won't be needing whatever you draw on it on new layers. Personally I also find use for it for coloring certain areas with certain colors that might be hard to see if theyre going over or under the lineart or not. For example, say I have a black linearted circle that needs to be colored light yellow (and the background is basic white). To make it easier to color in, I'd use a darker color all together to color in the circle, then put on preserve opacity so that I can easily recolor the dark colored circle with the light yellow that it was originally supposed to be. Hope that helps<3
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Thanks you. That helps me a lot to understand the difference.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
This is incredibly helpful for me, i shall use this technique from now on ;w;
before i struggled with colouring lineart and now it is so easy!
Thank you!!
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I'm glad it helps! It's also very useful coloring places too (especially if you're just flat coloring things) with lots of different colors and don't want to shove everything on one layer x'D (like you can see, I made a layer for almost all of the different colors for the body, without having to worry about the coloring going over the lineart boundaries).
Personally I don't use the magic wand or selection tools to "bucket color" the lowest color (in this case the green at the bottom), I just take a pen/brush and color it in with that, I feel like it looks more natural and smooth, and you can always just fine tune them with the eraser. Often when I use the magic wand/selection tools to fill in colors, the edges look jagged and kind of "ripped".
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Yes, bucket filling can be a pain and the magic wand tool is very fiddly. That is why i am very glad that you shared this tutorial with deviantart!
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