help

Started by flamemaster July 24th, 2011 2:06 PM
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flamemaster

No school like the old school

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Posted September 27th, 2012
195 posts
13.1 Years
so i have an error in gimp.
http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4242/errorkc.png
i was following kitsukitty's tutorial for sugiart.
http://kitsukitty.deviantart.com/gallery/9482453#/d2se5mw
but the thing is, it won't let me add color, when i use the fill tool, it fills it in grey!
someone please help me!
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NovaStar

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Seen December 28th, 2012
Posted April 13th, 2012
146 posts
12.9 Years
Well lets see here...
I can't see anything wrong at first glance but instead of using the bucket to do the coloring I just make a new, transparent layer underneath the lineart and proceed to fill in with the base color (erasing anything going past the lines).

Therefore you can right click the color layer (I usually use several for each different color) and select alpha to selection in which you can add the shading and highlights.
Another problem is that the lineart seems too transparent. Try darkening it using the Brightness/Contrast option under "Colors".