All right.
So let's we're going to talk about how to use some different overlay effects as well as adding backgrounds.
So let's say you're sketching digitally and because it's you know it's more convenient easier to change
things you work quicker but you really like the look and feel of a traditional sketch.
Something that's on paper.
Well if you're using a brush that resembles a pencil you can do some other digital effects to make it
look like it's on paper feel more traditional.
So what we're going to do I have addressed my liner layer on right now and then the background.
So I'm going to insert an image.
So whether in Photoshop or program you just going to insert an image to import an image.
I have mine saved in a file called textures and I'm going to import this image of a piece of paper.
OK I'm going to make sure it fills up the whole screen.
OK.
And I'm going to drag it and make sure it's the bottom layer.
Right.
That's above the background layer.
It's getting there it's beginning to look like paper but not quite there yet.
Right.
There's some things we can do to the liner layer to help make it look a little bit more real.
So one is I'm going to set the line art layer to multiply.
OK.
This means it will multiply it by whatever's underneath it instead of just being opaque on top of it.
And then I can go ahead and lower the opacity to wherever I want to.
I feel like it shows enough paper coming through but it's dark and I have to see if we do too light
it won't look like a drawing too dark.
It'll kind of look like it's just pasted on top.
But if you can get somewhere in between which for this picture is about here at 70 to 80 percent right
78 percent it looks pretty good.
It's going to be different for each image.
How much capacity to apply and it depends on how dark and thick you draw your lines.
But putting something about here gives that to a good spot.
Now the background I'm going to lower the opacity just a little bit and I'm also going to bring my background.
We're going to try with a little bit of a darker color and learn the opacity until it feels like it's
not taking up so much attention with the texture that's going on there.
OK.
And you can also change the background like say we want this to feel warmer if we change this to like
more of an orange color than it will keep the same feel and vibrancy that the original paper had without
getting all that saturated so you have a background color of this deep orange.
And then we just heard the Apache on this so that the texture is not so strong.
Right because up here it's kind of distracting.
It's a little much but around here feels a lot better tame.
And then you can get this effect that it feels like it's on paper.
OK.
Now let's say that you want all these colors on it as well.
Right.
You don't just want you don't just want the paper so to do this.
I have all of my coat layers turned on right.
I have my background set back to Gray for now so he can start over.
And then I have like colored Lennart later on as well.
So I'm going to start by taking my paper layer and put in the very top layer.
At first it's going to cover everything up but that's OK.
All right we're going to change that.
So we're going to select the layer and we're going to change it to overlay which is under the contrast
menu.
And then what we can do will click off of that and we want to adjust the opacity so that we get enough
texture to where we feel comfortable you might want to all the way up maybe you really like the texture
covering everything or maybe you want to lower it.
Right.
Subcu Well you can do is this is what I recommend.
OK.
So let's say we have the capacity all the way up.
We're going to go to our huge saturation and brightness and we're actually going to turn to saturation
all the way down.
OK.
That way we're not being affected by any color we're only getting the texture showing through.
Now if you do want color what I recommend is creating a new layer and also setting it to overlay and
then dropping your color and on that layer over everything else.
That way you can have your texture on the separate layer and you can adjust the color without messing
up the balance of the texture.
OK.
So then you can come over here and decide where you want it how intense you want it.
Right.
So you know if you are blue green you know whatever it is you want right.
I'm probably going to go with like it's them boring.
So it feels more natural pretty close to what the original paper actually was.
And we'll keep it pretty saturated.
And pretty light and then it feels like this is you know sort of printed on paper somehow which gives
a really nice look you can do this with pretty much any background you wanted.
So let's say let's try another one and see if we can find a good one.
So if you have any more say it let's try this paper one that I have.
OK.
May we want it to look like this thing is on some crumpled up paper.
Then we'll turn off this layer and we'll turn off that overlay layer as well because we keep that on
top.
And also the overlay.
And then we can just adjust the opacity right.
Maybe it's a little bit too bright so we can darken it a little bit.
OK.
And that makes it kind of feel like this is right on the paper.
Right.
It might also work for this one since it's not really using color to set them.
Nope doesn't really work on me do multiply I think overall I will be the best bet.
If it's too bright you could also go to Curves and just darken the whites a little bit.
So it's not quite so overpowering.
And then just up the brightness on the entire thing.
OK.
And then now it looks like it's right on this paper piece of paper right.
That's all crinkled up.
I mean it has things you could do with this if you really want it you can make your art look like it
was if you were to just select all of your layers say all your layers were mashed into one like this.
Then you could take this whole entire thing and make it you could put on a flyer you could you skew
it by holding the corners here.
Whoops down you can skew it and make it look like it's on maybe like the side of a vehicle or a building
or a billboard or something like that.
Right.
So lots of cool things you can do digitally very quickly that you can't do otherwise when you're working
traditionally.
So that's it for adding a background and I'll see you guys in the next lecture.