RAINCHILD - Toning Tutorial/Random Page

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Materials:

• Pre-drawn, already lined (preferably in black) comic page
• A program to use (i.e. Photoshop, GIMP - GIMP can be downloaded legally for FREE. Just Google it.)
  
• A tablet or a mouse (It's harder with a mouse, mind you)
• Hand-eye coordination (It's even harder without this)
• Ability to read English (I'm pretty sure that, if you got this far, you can read English)

Let's get started!

Step 1:

1. Let's get started by scanning your picture - MAKE SURE YOUR WORDS ARE INTACT

Step 2:

Clean up your picture!

1. Increase the contrast and decrease the brightness until you get the desired effect - You can get to this tool on GIMP by clicking on the tab in the top left titled "Colors" and then clicking on "Brightness-Contrast Tool" to get to the scale that will appear
2. Take the eraser tool to the picture and erase the unwanted bits - including the words

Remember: Colors>Brightness/Contrast Tool

Step 3:

Add the tones, now!

1. Create a new layer
2. Draw a line in black on that layer
3. Adjust the opacity for that layer until you get the desire shade of grey
4. Create a new layer for each shade of grey you plan on using
   

Remember: Dialogs>Layers (Or press Ctrl+L)

1. Select the area that you want to fill in using the Free Select Tool or the Fuzzy Select Tool (The magic wand, on Photoshop)
   
2. Fill in the area using the Bucket Fill Tool in black on your new layer
   

OR

1. Colour in the area you wish to add a tone to in black using the Brush Tool on the new layer

Step 4:

Now, add the words!

Use: Text Tool (GIMP) to fill in the words

If you do not know how to use the text tool, use MS Paint.

Fonts can be found at dafont.

That's all for now! Thank you for reading!

Allie out. :)

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