Welcome to another episode of Hal’s Tips! I’ve leave the rest of the post to him now.

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Today, I’m going to cover the Character menu, which is one of your best friends as a manga editor in Photoshop. The menu itself is somewhat hidden, and has a lot of somewhat confusing options, so I’m going to try to explain what everything is to make it more useful to everyone. This menu lets you change almost every property of whatever font you’re using, and in combination with text selection can let you perform all sorts of tricks with whatever text you’re using.

You can see a screenshot of the menu, as well as the submenu, here:

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For today’s tip, Hal teaches a technique for those pesky gradients that you see.

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Gradient Touch-Ups

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If you’ve seen the image board thread of this, you know where it came from. I’m basically just copy and pasting so that there’s a place for these long after the thread disappears. For today, we have 2 tips for you.

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Raw Setup Macros

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This is a compilation of the screentone methods that have been posted in the image boards. Just remember that each method isn’t necessarily the only correct one. A method may not be great on a gradient while another one may cause more distortion if it’s not accurate enough. It’s basically your pick on how do to it. It may even help to use each one of these methods as the need arises. Hopes it helps some people.

BAF Method

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