Digital Screentoning

Digital screentoning.

Software used:
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
- Celsys Powertone3 plugin for Photoshop

Hardware:
- Dell Inspiron 1721
- Wacom Intuos3 (6"x 11")

Music by: move
Video edition: Windows Movie Maker

Second CamStudio video. This video has a more "tutorial" feeling than the inking one (I decided to place some textual steps of what I do in the whole screentoning process). Since the tones are made of little, black dots on a white background, some moire effect can be expected when zoomed out like this. This doesn't mean it will look like that once printed at full scale. I recommend toning at a 600dpi of resolution for best printing quality. Yes, I use custom dither brushes downloaded from the internetz.

If you have any suggestions for my vids, please feel free to leave comments! ;)

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• digital
• screentones
• inks
• tones
• powertone3
• photoshop
• wacom
• tablet
• manga

[IZK97]

do you know where i can download this pplugin?

[LaraYokoshima]

@IZK97 As far as I know, you can only buy it...

[kobato96]

where did you get your screentones?

[LaraYokoshima]

@kobato96 A nice library comes with the plugin CD. Others are downloaded randomly from websites and a great bunch were made by me and imported to the plugin.

[damaged2]

What's that pop-up box? The one that you keep using to change the pattern.............I don't understand what you're doing. Can you please explain?

[LaraYokoshima]

@damaged2 It's the Powertone 3 plugin, which I use in this video to screentone the drawing. You need to select an area to tone in Photoshop, then open the plugin options window, select a tone you want to use, rotate, scale or mirror the tone depending on what you want, then apply. I don't think I'll make a full tutorial explaining the process, simply because the plugin is not really available to buy in America and haven't met anyone else yet that uses it.

[PattyBHana]

The dude in the vid is hot...

[ruzzzler]

@LaraYokoshima thats it powertone 3 filter, i dont know how i could have missed that maybe i turned away when you showed it. thanks. now i need to see if open canvas has that option =_=

if you look close in most mangas the shadows on faces clothes etc is usually just a bunch of dots, like the wall of the top panel here

ht tp ://ww w. tenmanga. co m/ chapter/TheBreakerNewWaves39/2­49470-3.html

[kiryuuryusei]

im not professional but the way you add tha tones i dont like it. :-)

[LuffyssNakama]

That anime guy is Hot!

[omigodcelebitchy]

@LaraYokoshima Thank you. The site was very helpful.