Adobe Photoshop tutorials: Part 1

Part I: Scanning

So you've completed a piece of traditional artwork and want to digitally colour it in Photoshop. These tutorials will walk you through the basics of setting up your work file.

First step use either A4 Canoscan Lide 100/220 portable scanners or one of the two A3 scanners located in the studio to scan in your work.

The Canoscan and A3 Scanner (connected to iMac 11) can scan straight into Photoshop. Once you have plugged in the scanner and opened Photoshop, go to the top bar and choose.
File > Import > Images from device.

This will open a new window up called 'import images from device', make sure your resolution is set to at least 300 DPI and choose the folder you want to save you work in. I would suggest creating a folder on the desktop and saving there and moving you files to the Arts drive and your personal hard drive when you have finished for the day.

Then select the area you want to scan by dragging the mouse across the preview image, this make a dotted rectangle, anything inside it will be scanned. Then click the scan button.

                     

The image will open up in Photoshop as a .jpeg, you're now ready for the next stage which is cleaning up your artwork for digital colouring.

Note: If you are using the A3 scanner connected to iMac HS02 you will have to scan your art work in a different way using EPSON Scan. [You can get the application from the applications folder and drag it onto the task bar at the bottom]

Follow the same process as above and choose 'preview' and then select the area you want to scan, scan to your chosen folder and then open into Photoshop ready to edit.

Behance & Adobe live - Live Illustrator sessions

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Behance & Adobe Live

Wednesday 7th March - Thursday 8th March

Check out of Behance live stream today and tomorrow for interactive demos and talks

with a selection professional Illustrators who will be walking you through their techniques and brushes they have created. You can catch up with part one in the replay section.

Schedule (GMT)

https://www.behance.net/live/

'Rocky is an illustrator and designer who helps companies tell their story through illustrations and graphics, specializing in print, branding and UI/UX design.' - Adobe Creative Cloud

 'Mark is an American manga creator, artist and children’s book author/illustrator. He produces instructional drawing videos on YouTube and is the author/illustrator of more than twenty chapter books & graphic novels. His "Akiko" series has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and on CNN Headline News and he has been voted one of the “100 Most Creative People in Entertainment” by Entertainment Weekly.'  - Adobe Creative Cloud

 'Jax is an Art Director & Senior Concept Artist specialising in design and storytelling. She has worked in film, game, VR/AR, television, advertising, and IP creation for the past decade with clients such as Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment, SyFy Channel, Digital Domain, and Psyop. She also teaches & builds courses for the BFA & MFA programs in the School of Game Development at the Academy of Art University San Francisco. Some of her courses include Monsters vs Mechs, Character Design, and Digital Painting.' - Adobe Creative Cloud

'Kyle is an international award-winning illustrator who has drawn for The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, Scholastic, Nike, IDEO, as well as many others. He is the creator of KyleBrush.com, the brand behind the world's best-selling Photoshop brushes for professional illustrators, animators, and designers. Kyle also currently teaches Life Drawing, Portraiture, and Digital Painting at UNC School of the Arts..'

 -Adobe Creative Cloud

Comics Uncovered 2018 Conference

Illustration students looking to break into the comic industry should check out 'Comics uncovered 2018', it's a conference taking place at The Birmingham Conference and Exhibition Centre on 

Sat & Sun July 7TH - 8TH 2018. 

The conference will have talks and portfolio reviews with Industry professionals from comic powerhouses DC comics, Dark Horse Comics, and Marvel Comics. 

This years event time table is still waiting an update, but you can have a look at last years schedule to get an idea of what to expect.

http://www.comicsuncovered.co.uk/event-timetable

As well as Seminars, master classes and panels 'Comics Uncovered' also plan to offer portfolio reviews with DC Comics, Aftershock Comics, Dark Horse Comics and Humanoids plus many more top publishers. There is also distributor meetings with 'Diamond Comics Distributors' who will be holding one to one meetings with small press and self publisher to offer advice on how to get your publication into the famous Preview Catalogue and into comic shops both here in the UK and the US. To take part in the distributor meeting you will need to email Comics Uncovered at smallzone.events@gmail.com with your full contact details and a link to your comics.

Image source Comics Uncovered 2016 promotional Video

 There are a selection of different ticket prices depending on what you want to attend and if you plan to be there for one day or the whole weekend. There is a Student tier but be warned it does not include the networking parties or access to the one to one portfolio reviews, So comic artists in level 6 with finished pages might want to get a full ticket.

Tickets can be brought here 

http://www.comicsuncovered.co.uk/bookings