Summer is here...sorta
: in the philippines and we had a great time. We became open water certified for scuba diving, man was it great. I highly recommend it. She is doing fine now and will start school soon. I'm back at work, sorta. It's a long story and I don't know how much I'm allowed to say but there's been a lot of changes at the studio. I'm currently on the special projects crew workin' on some fun stuff i'll post some vid's when I can. Oh now that I'm here can anyone help me with a photoshop question? I wanted to know how I can change the line color of my line art before I color. For example if I want to make the line's around a red shirt red, how do I do that? I'd really appreciate any help. I'll be posting some art work soon, just had to hook up the scanner to the new comp. Thanks a bunch!!
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As for your question: I've done this a dozen times over, but explaining it is often tricky. So here goes:
1. Depending if your lined drawing is inked traditionally or digitally, click in the Channels section, and Crtl+Click in the RGB box. The drawing should now be pixelated.
2. Make sure that the drawing itself is selected only with any other layers hidden. Then press Delete. The White area should now dissapear, leaving just the drawing itself.
3. Go back to layers, click anywehere to make the pixels go away, then click Lock Transparent Pixels.
4. Test it out by using a paintbrush and - viola! - you should now be able to paint the lined drawing only.
Some words of advice, mind: Make sure that you play with the Brightness > Contrast to make the drawing as clean as possible, purest of white as you can. Otherwise you'll be stuck with the grainy look left behind by the scanner (again, depending if your piece is digitally or traditionally inked.
If digitally inked, then Forget the first two steps and just follow three and four. Good luck!
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Go to the channels tab in your layers palette
Select "load channels as selection" -- it's the little dotted circle at the bottom of the palette. This selects all the white in your picture.
Select > Inverse
Layer > New
Use your paint bucket and click anywhere on the picture (make sure "use all layers" is turned off).
Deselect
You now have a perfect, transparent copy of your lineart! You can delete the old lineart layer, lock the transparency of the new line art, and go to town on colorin.' I usually wait until after I color to change the color of the lines--makes it easier to get the color I want.
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