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What is the go-to grayscale to color technique these days? Do people still use this grasycale>overlay>multiply one nowadays, or we've moved out to other methods?

>> No.4959177

I was using gradient maps, got frustrated with it and now i'm just doing direct color.

>> No.4959183

True best way is to paint in color while continually checking your values in B&W

>> No.4959189

>>4959166
>What is the go-to grayscale to color technique these days
>we've moved out to other methods?
There's no one standardized way to do this.

>> No.4959202

>>4959183
Based.

>> No.4959204

>>4959189
But there must be a best one, right?

>> No.4959207

The absolute state of digilets

>> No.4959218

i thought it was frowned upon in general because hue shifts to not match value shifts exactly or something.

anyway i like this piece but hate the colors. people's noses are not that fucking red

>> No.4959287

>>4959218
What's the beef people here have with hue shifting?

>> No.4959336

The patrician way is to do both a value study in grayscale and a color preliminary. The latter can then be used to color pick from while you paint the final.

>> No.4959349

>>4959204
Idk man that's like asking if there's one best way to draw the human figure, do whatever the FOCK you wanna do
And do whatever you try that you like
Personally I put vague values down in b&w, make a palette with about 5 dif values for each 'material' (local, midtone, shadow, light, highlight) and then use thst value composition as reference to guide me

>> No.4959357

>>4959207
>What is a grisaille

>> No.4959723

>>4959207
Cope harder, tradcuck.

>> No.4960236
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4960236

>>4959287
It feels like painting on glass. Just feels wrong.

>> No.4960242

>>4959166
Yeah but the final step of color overlay isnt the final step of painting. Its good to then use that to paint by hand over it. Greyscale to color is shit on its own no matter how good you are at it.

>> No.4960257

>>4959183
especially if the app you use allows you to open up a different
instance in B&W. So you can paint and simultaneously see the result
in B&W

>> No.4961422

>>4960257
what app lets you do that?

>> No.4961455

>>4961422
Every drawing application lets you do that. But you really want to be using PS for grayscale to colour, as any other program is basically suicide for this sort of workflow.

>> No.4961456

>>4961455
how does ps let you open a second instance in b&w?

>> No.4961463

>>4961456
Pour black onto a layer and set it to colour. Or you can toggle on and toggle off the gradient map layer which will likely be easier if what you're mapping is black and white to begin with.

Adjustment layers are non destructive in photoshop. You can disable them any time you like and reenable them to see their effects. You may also merge them down when you like what you see.

The only limit is the amount of ram and your scratch disk speed.

>> No.4961466

>>4961456
(cont) there's also these memes but since I'm not the other anon I don't use it
https://superuser.com/questions/248616/open-two-copies-of-the-same-file-side-by-side-in-photoshop