Screentone trade!

[inkhana]

OK manga artists! This is a thread where we post our most often-used, prized screentones to share and trade! I think this will be a great way for everyone who uses them to get a bunch in their collections... Be sure to include any special ones you made yourself...

My first tone is a scan a friend gave me and I have used it so many times!

PS: I am looking for a pretty clear cloud screentone I can use as a fairly large backdrop; if anyone has one I'd love to have a copy...

[madphilb]

I almost feel stupid asking this question, but how do these work?

I do a bit of image editing (even some pretty creative stuff), and I'd understand things like brushes and/or "pipes" (depends on your program)... but how do these work, how are they used?

Feel free to forward me off to a tutorial or some such thing on the web if you don't feel like explaining.

Sorry for the intrusion.

[inkhana]

It's no prob at all! This link explains very well the exact procedure I use. Hope it helps...^^

http://cowkitty.net/Kaizen/manga

[madphilb]

I think I follow you on this... did a search on the issue (I sometimes do better when I can see it put in use, step-by-step that is)...... found this tutorial (though this person used pre-defined standard screen-tones from Photoshop):

http://actiondaxton.keenspace.com/screentutorial1.html

Oh, and get this.... my search for screentone tutorials got a hit on one of you're posts Ink (to Gypsy I think).

Thanks... don't do that much, but might have to play around and see

[inkhana]

LOL, that's cool...the technique I use is indeed a little different, but that's because I didn't know you could do it that way... I do like using tones though.

[Psycho Ann]

Ooh! I don't use varying tones much anymore but that one is great, Inky!

I have a slightly different way of making my own tones and applying them (actually, I haven't found any other tutorial teaching the tone application I use).

You can see them (and guess what's going on since it's in Indonesian) in this basic toning tutorial I made a while back : http://www.psychoteers.com/Tutorial/index4.html

[Psycho Ann]

Gomen ne anony-chan, I think I haven't posted stuff in forums a long time because it's kinda redundant since it can be found on my page anyway. But I might just post one or two anyway in the future ^^

Heheh eh, btw, Inkhana, do you have any harder to find textured tones? I really could just scan some from my manga though....

[inkhana]

What kind of texture are you looking for? (if you know) I kinda doubt I do, though; almost all of mine came from fairly well known sites...O.o I did figure out how to make some decent looking clouds...but it's still not exactly what I wanted...-_- (I used white airbrush on light gray background to make cloud shapes, then hit it with the halftone PS filter, then messed with the contrast until it was back to the same light gray again. )

Now, if this will let me, I'm gonna attach a zip file with two .pat files in it. I can't remember where these came from, but they're already configured for use with PS and all you have to do is add them through your pattern manager. Note that I dled these from the internet and I don't know where I got them, so credit goes to...whoever made them... LOL