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The Latest - May 2021
🕑 Added 2021-06-01 01:36:07 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
In addition to being super-flower-magic-blood-moon month, the cosmic calendar also lined up to be a 3 tutorial monthā¦ I hope you found something useful in the new additions to the library.
Iām hoping the tutorial portion of the site will scratch the itch for new project ideas for just a bit, as I feel pressed to shift some energy over to building up the texture library this month. In addition to expand the existing sections, my intention is to launch the Vector category. So far Iāve got about 100 assets, but the goal is to hit 200+ for launch this month. I think itāll make a nice addition to the long term toolkit.
Simultaneously, Iām doing some brainstorming about the most sustainable and beneficial strategy for the tutorials as the project continues to grow. My goal remains to provide the community with the most valuable resources I can - I want to do that without being redundant or scraping the bottom of the barrel for new ideas. Itās odd that I sometimes feel guilty when using the same technique in a YouTube video that Iāve already covered. But as artists and designers, thatās how we work, right? Iām wondering if thereās a better approach than the āsomething new every two weeksā approach; like building a more cohesive set of videos that is designed to expand on core ideas.
In any case, Iāll get some ideas worked out and update everyone. One of the most important things to me is providing the Patreon community with resources that reflect my gratitude. You guys are awesome and I genuinely thank you!
Cheers,
Brady
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Thank you! Iāll give it a try. As an aside, Iāve been playing with this tutorial, making versions of my friendsā photos as gifts for them, and they love the images. So thank you for the tutorial - itās bringing a lot of happiness to a bunch of people this week.
Hey Madelyn! Just rewatched to remind myself. The color fill in the video is technically applying to the background - however, because the color of the BG is pure white, the color layer set to Hard Mix on top of it results in white (white kind of overrides everything with hard mix). If your background layer is anything other than white and you want to apply the color fill to only one specific layer, you could probably use clipping masks to limit the color fill to only effecting a single layer. Hope that helps!
Hi there! I'm a new supporter, after following some tutorials on YouTube. I have a question about the Color Fill step in the Vector-Style Images. In the tutorial, the background behind the subject stays white when Brady applies the Color Fill adjustment layer. When I do it, the whole background takes on the Color Fill color. I can't figure out what I'm doing differently. Can anyone help?
That's good to hear... making mental notes!
MBK
I love learning new stuff but I would also love to see some of the older techniques applied in new ways, combined with others or just expanded on. Or even using the older stuff but focusing on composition or colour theory.
