Metallic Graphics Tutorial
First make sure you have transparency unchecked. Otherwise the blending used later will not work.
Next, fill the area with the tan color.
Add diagonal yellow lines, either as pictured, or top right to bottom left. Later, you can experiment with other patterns and colors.
Go up to the Image menu and choose blur, and set blur to 3. Experiment with this for different metallicness later too.
Click OK, and you will see this.
You are done! Zoom out to see this, your finished sprite. It is very simple to do. To check your understanding, we suggest that you try this technique with silver, or an aqua/water color.
Jelly Bean Effect Tutorial
First make sure you have transparency unchecked. Otherwise the blending used later will not work.
Zoom in as far as you can go.
Draw freeform little ovalish thingies over the whole surface.
Cover the top of each oval in white.
Fill in with colors starting with lighter, then darker.
You can use all of thesame color, or several different ones. Later, if you want all the same of a certain color, you can go to colorize in the image menu.
Set blur fron the image menu to 1. 2 will not work, 3 will not work... you get the point.
You are almost done...
Zoom out as far as you can go and you are done! Now you can colorize it to make it all one cool color or go to black and white to have no color. Check your understanding by creating a small gumball machine sprite with a metal coin slot and base.