Absolutely brilliant. I have watched a few other tutorials on this topic and have been disappointed because they use a method that works for a specific photo and a background but isn't flexible enough to be used for other images. The other tutorials are always lacking important info. This tutorial nails it and the steps are clear AND makes it easy while universally applicable. Now that I have finished - it's time to hit the subscribe button and the bell notification!
I really like your tutorials because they are very "to the point", you don't waist any time. So many other tutorials drag on and on, I find myself trying to skip ahead.
Good video but I really wish people wouldn't put music in the background of tutorial vids. Its distracting, and if you're watching on a laptop (ie with the sound coming through laptop speakers) then it actually gets in the way of hearing the voice over properly.
9 лет назад
Thank you for creating a video too about this method!
Many thanks, Chris. While, as you humbly noted, it's not quite the same as hand-drawn crosshatching, (particularly of the style where the curves keenly conform to the subjects features) the results are surprisingly impressive. Well done!
I'm struggling to define the gradients on my images when I use your action, I'm sure it's brilliant and I'm just being a thicky but is there any way you could consider posting a youtube tut for using it please Chris?
Really useful thanks so much. One minor suggestion would be, if possible, to slow down a bit. I found myself having to replay sections over and over and zoom in to the screen so that I could actually follow what you were doing and what tools you were using. Appreciate all the hard work.
This is my all-time favourite tutorial by you. I've actually used it a lot in my work! (Okay, that makes me sound like counterfeiter but it's just designing fake money for games, I promise!) XD
the moire patterns this technique creates are off the charts, but there are some very good things about as well. There needs to be a solution with no moire, and more of a stippled line.
Could you post instructions for the ACTION-what should the background be labelled, what should the graphic layer be labelled, what other specs need to be set so the action will run?
