The 2D game art tutorials by 3DBuzz on YouTube have been very helpful for learning the practical uses of many of the tools, along with keyboard shortcuts for many of them. The person who made the videos does a very good job of introducing a tool slowly, but then, as you go on, expecting the viewers to know how to use to tools. While he does make errors, some intentionally though others are not, he turns them into lessons as he shows how to solve the problem.
An incredibly useful tool is the warp tool. While it's fairly simple, it can be very helpful. It technically is a sub-tool of transform, but an important one nonetheless. It allows for easily faking diversity of a background made from copying and pasting the same few trees over and over again by letting you make slight changes to the overall shape of them. It's a different way of changing shapes that is easy to do and takes very little time. Not only could it help with diversity, but it could easily be used to try to even out a lopsided figure or just make adjustments as needed. It's an easy way to change things slightly, either to fix them or to make them look unique. My favorite tools that he has used are the burn (for shadows) and dodge (for highlights) tools. In the past, I always did highlights and shadows in their own layers which were just set to a low opacity. These tools have the same effect as doing so, but are a bit easier to use and allow you to shade directly on the layer. While having the shading on different levels could be useful if it needed to be erased, the burn and dodge tools are better than opaque layers because they look more feathered. On a layer with low opacity all around, all of the shadows will be the same color, and it would take multiple layers of shadows and multiple layers of highlights to look realistic. With the dodge and burn tools however, it is easy to have diversity by just clicking multiple times for the shadow or highlight to automatically have a higher opacity. This tool will definitely help make lighting look more realistic.
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