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
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