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I been watching a lot of Photoshop tutorials and notice how easy and professional it is to use the Burn and Dodge tool for shadows and depth on a character.

Here is a link how Photoshop does it.
http://www.photoshoptutorials.ws/photos ... outlaws/5/

Any equivalents tools in Anime Studio Pro 9.5?
Or how can I use the current tools to get that look?

Thanks, Mike

Photoshop is a professional paint program for processing bitmaps. Anime Studio is an animation program designed primarily to manipulate vectors. They're two very different things. You can do creative things in Anime Studio with layer blending modes and shadows, but if you want Photoshop-style functionality, the best thing would be to use Photoshop and then import the images into AS.

Have a look at the layer transfer settings. Multiply and Screen are rough equivalents. Play a bit with opacity. Effects are visible in render only.

Another thing to consider...

The video example shows using dodge and burn for "still" image illustration. Dodge and burn are used on a specific image to darken and lighten pixels of an image.

In reality that video isn't about dodge and burn, but how to create shadows and highlights. You could just as easily paint with a paint brush or use levels or brightness contrast. The video is demonstrating "pixel" based paint effects. Since Anime Studio is an animation program those types of effects don't really apply. If you were using Adobe Illustrator or Flash you wouldn't use dodge and burn with a paint brush.

Hey all I heard Anime Studio Pro 11 updated the drawing tools.
I found this video of a program called Sketchbook Pro 7
They have this cool feature where he uses a 3 color gradient to create cool shadows on his character and he uses Multiply on the group effect.
Check it out here and fast forward to 8 minutes 15 seconds.
https://youtu.be/J_FJqYYm4n4?t=8m15s

Can this be done in Anime Studio pro 10 or 11? How could we implement it?
It's seems cool to add realistic shadows for dark shadows and high light shadows.

Thanks,

Any one?

The effect shown on the video appears to be a simple multiply blend, which is readily available as a layer setting in AS.

AS11 also brings you the ability to colour points on a line individually; so you could, e.g., have a line with soft edge plus colour gradient in a "multiply" layer ...