Setting up the workspace

Now, the most important windows, for concept art, are these ones:

• Material
• Layer
• Layer Property
• Sub Tool
• Tool

The color wheel is something you can use with shortcuts because you will not change colors very much.

In the Quick Access window, I recommend adding the following:

• HSL correction layer, which you can find under Layer | New Correction Layer | Hue/Saturation/Luminosity
• HSL tonal correction, which you can find under Edit | Tonal Correction | Hue/Saturation/Luminosity
• Tool property
• Gradient map
• Gradient tool

This will give you all the tools you need to work with.

You can see an overview of the workspace here:

Figure 9.2 – Workspace for concept art

Before going any further, I need to help you understand how useful the Material palette is for concept art.

Material folder – your greatest ally

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