For this MediBang tutorial, we're going to go over some things that have been brought up a lot in
the previous video's comments section. Such as accidentally closing windows or going more in
depth with your selection tools, etc. Then we can go into some more tools
and tricks that I didn't go over in our original MediBang video. So this tutorial will have
slightly more advanced functions and slightly more advanced things. So
I won't be going over every single basic that you need to know, so if you are new to
MediBang then I recommend checking out our first video first before you watch this one, or
if you're more in depth with MediBang already, then you can continue to watch and stay tuned!
The first question that we always get is "what happens if I close one of my windows off by accident, and can
I get it back?" The answer is yes - you can always get it back, it's super super easy. All
you have to do - so say I accidentally close off the colour window, all of these windows have
little X's on them, let's say that I close this colour window off, I'm like "oh no, what do I do? I
can't get my colours back, how will I ever see my colours again?" Don't freak out, it's really really
easy! So up at the top, on here you'll see a button that says Window. You just click on that,
and find whichever window that you have closed off. So that's the colour window, just click on that and
it should come back. You can even close off windows that you don't need up at the top. So let's say I
don't need my brush size window, I can close that off and now it's gone - I can bring it back if
I want. Now let's talk a little bit more about the brush tool. Now the brush tool is the tool
that you know probably the most about because you use it all the time, right. I tend to stick with my
default brushes, but if you would like to download more brushes it's also another really easy thing to do,
but you do need an account with MediBang. All you have to do is on your brush window, you can
click this little cloud with an arrow. If you click that, a new window will open up and suddenly all of
these extra brushes will pop up. Right now for me it says "login required" because I don't have
an account, because I don't really need to download any extra brushes. But if you
would like to download any more special effects brushes, then all you really need to do is log
in. You can select all these extra brushes, download them, and they will pop up into your menu over here.
Nice and easy! Let's say that I wanted to blend in Kirby here more right, I wanted to
you know, make him a little more blended, right. So rather than this
hard shading, I wanted him to have a little bit more blended features. So
there's a really easy way to do that. There's a couple ways actually, you could go for the
airbrush and just turn down the opacity and blend like that, you know just continuously holding Alt
and blending in with this. However, I find that the airbrush looks a little bit messy.
You can use it, but it is a little bit of a harder tool to get used to.
One way that I really like to blend is with something a little more textured - I like the G Pen.
I have "Opacity by Pressure" turned on, on the bottom left you can kind of see it there.
Based on how hard I press, that's what determines how harshly it blends
in, and how hard, how high the opacity is and whatnot. Alright, so you can just continually blend.
Again, the shortcut for the eyedropper is Alt and that's what you would be clicking back and forth.
Ideally, you would have a tablet with a some kind of express key or you have a shortcut somewhere
that you can click continuously. I use a Cintiq, so I have one of my buttons programmed to Alt.
I can just continually blend this in. You know it's all up to you generally
which brush you would like to use; you may just find a blender brush and that may work a
little bit better for you. This is kind of the manual way to do it
if you don't have any custom brushes. It's just continuing to blend back and forth. Right so
you can see hard shaded Kirby, soft shaded Kirby. Let's say that I wanted to change something here,
alright, let's say that I wanted to erase something, and if you're like me and you have
a double-sided pen, then the back of your pen will automatically go to the Eraser Tool. But
unfortunately, even though I've drawn with a hard brush or I've drawn with a soft brush, my eraser will
always be hard, it doesn't matter what brush you have selected over here, your eraser will always be
a hard edge, right. Which gets really really annoying over time, so what you can do instead
of choosing the eraser is if you go back to your brush up at the top here, you'll see that there are
actually three squares, so there's your foreground your background, which you can switch between
just by clicking that little square. Underneath it, there is this checkerboard looking square. If
you click on that, that's called your subtract. So up on top here, these are your additive colors
this is your subtractive, and what that does is it now creates whatever brush you have selected
now it will subtract from what you've already drawn. So let's make that nice and big again.
Now you have a nice and soft eraser, right. Some people have accidentally turned this
on while they were working on whatever they had initially and they go "oh no, I can't draw with
colour anymore, what do I do?" It's nice and easy, you just go back and select the colour again.
You can switch between subtract and add if you ever wanted a corresponding eraser.
So say if I was working with the G Pen - this is another textured brush that I quite like working
with - but then my eraser is too hard. What I can do instead is just switch my brush to subtract
and now i have a nice corresponding eraser. Now let's say that you want to draw a straight line
right, you're tired of constantly like you turn up your correction to 38 and you're like
"oh my God, I can't draw this straight line". Let's say that you really really want to
draw like a bunch of straight lines and you're just kind of struggling you can't really get it right because
you can't move your pen around properly. So all you really need to do is draw a little dot down.
If you hold Shift, now you'll see this line that pops up coming from that
dot that you've just drawn. If you just click somewhere, now you've drawn a straight line.
You can do this ad infinitum, until you want to move on again.
That's a nice and easy way to get perfectly straight lines. Up at the top here you'll see
a bunch of different shapes that you can draw with, so if you want to draw a box you just got to
have the box selected, and you can click and drag to change the size of the boxes. They have circles
here as well. There's also this one that's in the shape of a pentagon, but when you start drawing
you click somewhere and then it looks like you have a straight line, but really you're putting
down all the different corners. Every time you click, a new corner is put down. If you're done,
double-click on the same spot, and you'll have your polygon or whatever shape you're doing. This one
will create curved lines, so let's click somewhere up top here first and then if I click down here.
Now based on where I put the next point, you'll see it affects the curve a little bit.
You just got to go back to where you started, double-click and it closes off this rounded shape.
And with this zig-zaggy one that's up here, this one is just
creating open-ended straight lines. It's the same thing as if you click Shift, but this one's just a
little bit harder to control so I don't really recommend working with it. And this one is just
straight lines, if you want to draw straight lines. Another question that we get asked is "How
do you put in another image into MediBang?" Now it's very very easy, it isn't quite
as apparent, because it's not directly on the window but it works pretty well the exact
same as any other copy and paste situation. So right now I have a royalty-free image of a galaxy
on my clipboard, so let's say that I wanted to put Kirby in this galaxy - I want
to put it as a background. So I have him out with no background, this is the merged version behind him.
Let's say that I want to put Kirby in outer space, so I have it on my clipboard and I hit Ctrl+C.
Now all I have to do is hit Ctrl+V, and now the image of the galaxy's in here, I can hit Ctrl+T
to kind of finagle it and hit OK. Let's move that Kirby layer above it, and now
Kirby is in space! If I really wanted to add some extra atmosphere to him - a little shadow
on him just to match the milky way a little bit. It is nice and easy,
whenever you paste things into here, it will automatically make a new layer. You can also, instead of just hitting Ctrl+V, you can also go up to the top to File, and you can
use Open Image as Layer. If you have it saved, a new window will pop up and you'll be able to insert an
image from your own files. If you want it to open up in a new file, you can go to File>
New via Clipboard, and it'll create a completely new file for you that is based on whatever image
you have last saved in your clipboard. So just in case you wanted a whole new window.
You can have a whole new window for your
file as well. Another thing that has been brought up a couple times is to go more in depth into our
selection tools off to the side here, because there are quite a few and they can kind of get
confusing if you've never worked with them before. Like which ones should you use when,
and which ones are more efficient to use for certain things. Let's start with this
first one again, so I'll talk more about the just regular selection tool the top one up here.
So this one selects in shapes so you know the default will most likely be rectangle, which is
what you get most of the time. You can also have an ellipse, which is just like an oval or a circle.
So these are you know, they're quick selections but I don't recommend using them
all the time. Just because if you do use them, then you are stuck on either
the circular axis of it, like an ellipse or you're stuck on the rectangle tool. The polygon
tool is one where you can tap around and double-tap at the end to close off the entire polygon.
So say if you wanted to select like a star or something, you can just keep tapping
to get you the shape of this star, and then once you reach that final point, double-tap and it'll
create the shape for you. You can deselect with Ctrl+D. So this next one is the Lasso Tool, and the lasso is usually
the artist's favorite quick selection because you can just
draw in whatever shape you want. It's like working with a pen.
But I find the lasso should really only be your quick selection. You can
select more than one time if you hold down Shift. So say if I select this little section of Kirby
right now, but I'm like "Okay, let's just close this off", I can hold Shift
and continue to add on to that selection as much as I want.
So I can continually do this if I really want to. If you want to deselect something, you
can also hit Ctrl, and that can deselect some areas. So Shift is to add on to
your selection and Ctrl is to deselect. If you really need precise, like you need to
get right up onto those pixels, what I would recommend using is the Select Pen Tool.
Because the select pen allows you to mimic the way that a brush would go, so you can get
right up onto those pixels that you really need to select from. You don't have to worry about
hitting Ctrl or Shift or anything like that. Let's say I want to select half of
Kirby, and the great thing about the select pen as well is the select erase, is you can change the
size of that. So if I go a little bit over Kirby, I can just erase these very small pixels very, very
finely. The lasso tool doesn't really allow for something this fine, like it does but it takes a
lot of finagling. Let's say that I do that, and all I need to do is select the brush tool
again and now that area is selected. If I want to go back and I go "Hmm maybe I want to select even
more of that", I can literally just go back to the select pen and continue to edit the same selection.
Another cool thing about the select pen in MediBang, the reason why I prefer the
select pen over the lasso in terms of precise selection, is say that I want to
have Kirby you know, like in this vast space. Let's say I want to select an area around
Kirby to kind of you know, not completely select him, but have the little light glow of this color still
around it. The cool thing with the select pen is you can change which brush you use for the select
pen. Say I want like that airbrush-y look, so I'm going to change the select pen to
the airbrush, and I can have this nice kind of like a soft selection around Kirby. The cool thing
is if i choose the select pen it retains that softness around it. So let me just hit Ctrl+X,
Ctrl+V, Ctrl+D, and now there's like a little glow around him, because the select pen
retained the softness that it kept. So that's what's nice about the select pen, is you can have
a different kind of brush - different textured selections, which is really nice.
Now the Clipping Mask basically just means that MediBang has clipped the layer
above to the layer below. Let's say that I want another layer on top where I can
you know, draw inside the lines but my original layer won't be affected.
So if I turn this layer off, and if I were to draw on the layer above, unclipped, it's not
inside the whole layer. It's completely separable.
If I were to just use the alpha lock so protect alpha, so I turned that on
and now it's all on one layer, and it's a little bit harder to navigate through.
That's why clipping masks are so important. So let's say I turn on the clipping mask,
and I draw on these pink lines here. If I turn off this layer, then the layer that is clipped will
also turn off, but I can also move this around separately. So I can turn off this layer and it
doesn't affect the layer below. Now let's say that I wanted to create another layer with a clipping
mask on it. Unfortunately, this is the same with every single digital program that I have seen
with clipping masks, you can only have one clipping mask per
layer. What that basically just means is this layer is not clipped onto the one below.
This layer is clipped onto the original black circle. So if I were to do another set of lines,
it's clipped to the black circle, not to the pink lines. But they're both separate,
and are both attached to the black circle. So you can have multiple layers of clipping masks within
clipped to one thing, but you cannot have it so then this layer is clipped to the pink lines and
this layer being clipped to these blue lines, etc. They would all have to be clipped to
the original layer. So that's basically just how you would have to kind of work wisely with
it. Let's say that I'm done with all this, right. Let's say that I have all these layers and
I'm like "Oh cool, I want to merge all these now". So let me create a folder first, and when you create a
folder if you hold shift select all of these layers, you can click and drag them into this
folder. Now if I close it you know, I hide it, now everything is within that single folder. So let's
say that I want to merge this entire thing now. All I have to do is hit Ctrl+C and then hit
Ctrl+V and now it has created a whole new layer that has merged all of the layers that are within
the folder. Generally I like to keep all of these other layers before as well, just in case
if I make a mistake with this one. Another thing I didn't really go over that strongly was gradients.
Now gradients have you know, there's a couple ones that I said you have up here. So there's
the linear version which is just a straight line where the gradient happens. You
can switch it to circular as well, which means that it radiates out from a single spot - it's a circle.
Next to it, you'll see there's a Type. So you can either have foreground-background,
you can either have foreground-transparent, or transparent-foreground. So let's say that I have
foreground-transparent, right. My foreground colour is the one that is always selected.
It's the colour on top. So let's switch to this blue, and now I'm only doing gradients from my foreground
colour. It goes from foreground to transparent - where I click it starts at foreground, and it goes
to more transparent afterwards. So the inverse of that, transparent is wherever I click starts out as
transparent and then it goes out to the foreground colour afterwards. Unfortunately it can only
ever be two-toned if you want multiple colours for gradients, I guess you could do three. So say if I
wanted one, I can switch it to foreground-transparent. Let's say I wanted this third colour in
here, I can click and drag, and now there's a third colour in there. Another thing I didn't talk about
on this program was the Text Tool. Now the reason for that is because the text tools are pretty
finicky on this program, and I don't recommend it. But if you were really, really in the need
of text, then you can try to use this one if you'd like. The thing with the text tool is - it's the little T
off to the side here - if you click somewhere with it, then a new window will pop up and it says Edit
Text. The issue with this is that you have to edit everything within this window, and then you can
paste it on. There's no way to edit it afterwards. So let's just set a bunch of things randomly here.
So let's say I want the text to be size 48 and make the text colour whatever I want. Alright, let's
just type in a key smash, it's fine. Hit OK and now, this whole text window is over here.
You can't change it afterwards, you're stuck with it pretty much. If you liked what you saw, make sure
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