Quick Tips: Why Color by Numbers Have Touching Areas With the Same Number

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Ever notice touching areas with the same number in a Color by Number design? Simply Creative Colors explains how those subtle highlights and shadows can be enhanced using nearby colors and low-opacity layers to add extra depth and detail to your artwork.

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  1. 00:00 Color by number quick tips from Simply Creative Colors.
  2. 00:03 Why does my color by number have touching areas with the same number?
  3. 00:06 When you see this, those areas don't have enough color difference to be their own number. But they're there in case you want to add in more detail.
  4. 00:15 Usually these are subtle highlights or shadows, so pick a nearby color that's close to the same value, and color over those areas on a new layer.
  5. 00:23 Set the opacity of the new layer to 50 percent, and it will add that extra detail by essentially mixing the two colors.
  6. 00:30 Try different colors if you need to, but now you know.

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