HeroMachine Character Portrait Creator - Topic: How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/ Simple:Press Version 5.2.6 Worf on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12802 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12802

Seraph said

ams said

Yes you can. Good example. I also use it to get a reflection/shine effect off of metal items.

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Thanks a lot! Will start playing around with this. http://www.heromachine.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

Make sure to keep at it. Just by looking I can see around 40 circle gradients in that Midas picture.

]]> Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:12:30 -0600 Seraph on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12721 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12721

ams said

Yes you can. Good example. I also use it to get a reflection/shine effect off of metal items.

[spoiler]http://www.heromachine.com/blog/wp-content/forum-image-uploads/ams/2012/10/ams-MIDAS-update-greed.png[/spoiler]

Thanks a lot! Will start playing around with this. :)

]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:39:40 -0600 ams on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12697 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12697 Yes you can. Good example. I also use it to get a reflection/shine effect off of metal items.

[spoiler]ams-MIDAS-update-greed.png[/spoiler] ]]> Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:28:33 -0600 Seraph on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12626 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p12626 This might be an obvious and/or dumb question, but you would use this same technique to do lighting effects, right? I've seen some pretty amazing effects...a great, recent example would be like DJuby's Rustbuckett (http://www.heromachine.com/blo.....uckett.JPG).

]]> Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:14:03 -0600 fuzztone on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p9149 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p9149 The gradient side of things can be a bit tricky to get right with the smaller items, such as hands. What you can do is to duplicate the hand or item, making it with the same size and location values as the first one, and then mask a gradient on to that. After you've masked the gradient to the hand, turn the colours down to zero on the duplicate hand and send it to the back layer of the image (layer 1, probably) so that it's out of the way. The masked gradient, though, will stay where it was, and you can then change the size, colour, etc, to your heart's content, knowing that it will always only show up in the boundaries of the hand.

]]> Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:21:56 -0600 Bad-People on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8661 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8661 My problem is with the shadow gradient, it doesn't work the same way with hands. I've tried hiding a duplicate hand under the first and masking a transparent grey insignia over that, but it's hard to get it to match up with the arm.

]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:47:52 -0600 Kaylin88100 on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8621 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8621 If you can't figure out where the shadows should go, try working from observation - find some pictures, or look at your own hand to see where the shadows fall.

]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 06:31:57 -0600 Trekkie on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8612 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8612 I think you could try just shading them in a normal way first- dark gradients in shadowed areas, and lighter ones as highlights. Then, use small white gradient circles on each of the knuckles. Not sure how useful that is, but it's an idea- hope it helps.

]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 02:07:47 -0600 Bad-People on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8608 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p8608 I’m trying to experiment with this a little, but I’m having a lot of trouble figuring out how to shade hands, hands that are grasping something are even harder. Do you have any advise?

]]> Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:43:27 -0600 FRM on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7168 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7168 that's what's supposed to happen. on the gradient there are colors, on inside an one around it (fading into each other), with the circular border around both. when you first select it, both colors are white, so you cant see where they are. what u need to do is go to the color tab, and make color 1 transparent, using the (i'm not sure what it's called), labeled "Alpha" in the top right, by dragging the little bar-thingy left (or typing 0 into the number box next to it). change the line color to 0 as well. next you can change the color of color 2 and modify it's transparency however you like. you might want to change the item's size (in the Transform tab), as well. i think it says how in another thread. i dont know how to explain that part.

hope this helps.http://www.heromachine.com/blog/wp-content/forum-smileys/sf-cool.gif

]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:42:32 -0600 Psikic on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7166 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7166 I guess I'm not quite understanding how to add the gradients, and what is being explained in Step 4. After I click on the gradient, it darkens half the figure. Then, I select the Item tab-->Patterns-->Standard, Click on the indicated circle, and I just get a big circle covering most of my figure. Where am I going wrong?

]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:17:22 -0600 Herr D on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7158 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7158 K! One of the clearest tutorials I've seen.Cool

]]> Wed, 18 Jul 2012 01:00:15 -0600 Kaylin88100 on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7123 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7123 What specifically don't you get?

]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:49:21 -0600 Psikic on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7120 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p7120 So, I hate to sound incredibly dense, but I'm new to this version of Hero Machine. I can't seem to find some of the places/things that you mention in your tut. Can you elaborate a bit on the steps?

]]> Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:45:43 -0600 Shiboreth on How to Highlight/Shade....... http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p4816 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Guides http://www.heromachine.com/forum/tips-tricks-how-tos-and-guides/how-to-highlightshade/#p4816 It took a little bit to understand what picture 4 of the body was supposed to be, but I follow it now! And so now I have been abusing this technique thoroughly. Thank you for posting it!

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