Tutorial: Setting Up To Colour Line-art
Visual_Mirage
Join Date: 2003-05-01 Member: 15973Members
Join Date: 2003-05-01 Member: 15973Members
<div class="IPBDescription">How to setup your picture in photoshop</div> Hi Everyone. First and foremost, i am writing this solemly to give new people a chance to learn how to set-up their drawing they've scanned in and start off colouring it in photoshop. There ARE more than one ways of doing this, but this is the way i choose, as i believe it's the easiest and most effective.
Ok! First off, i 'ASSUME' you have the following to do this:
- Photoshop 6+
- Scanner (Or any other device that will possibly get your line-art sketch onto your PC)
- A black and white lineart drawing, no colours and shading.
NOTE: For the image example, i am using the "glurm" picture i drew, its a decent example of what to have.
---STEP 1---
Scan your black outlined image on a possible high DPI setting to achieve maximum results for quality and clearness, if not, just try and use something that will produce a reasonable result. If your scanning program has the setting for it... choose the "Line-Art" setting, that means it will ONLY scan black and white colours, and produce a clear scan of your image.
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
---STEP 2---
Open photoshop, and create a new template with the same 'length' and 'width' dimensions as the image you are going to use, and choose 'white' as your background, click OK.
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
---STEP 3---
Create "TWO" new layers now by clicking on the new layer button, and load up your image into the top layer you just created (should be called Layer 2 by default)
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
So now you should have a white 'background' layer, then above that should be a transparent 'layer 1', then above that should be 'layer 2' which contains your image.
---STEP 4---
Assuming the background on your drawing is TOTALLY white (no shading or gradients or anthing), click on the layer containing your image, and choose "white" as your foreground colour.
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Next, click on the "Select" tab at the top, then choose "Color Range".
Use the following settings:
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Click OK. What this does is it will look at what colour you have selected as your foreground colour, and it will select ALL of that colour in your image.
---STEP 5---
As you 'should' now see, all of the white in your drawing has been selected!! Now what?... hit delete!
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/settings-6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Now if you look at the layer now in the layers palette, it should be your black outline on a transparent background, sweet!
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-7.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
---STEP 6---
If you then select the layer underneath your drawing "layer 1", you may now start to colour on it, and it should colour beatifully under your picture!
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/settings-8.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
I hoped this has helped atleast a few people! ^_^
Ok! First off, i 'ASSUME' you have the following to do this:
- Photoshop 6+
- Scanner (Or any other device that will possibly get your line-art sketch onto your PC)
- A black and white lineart drawing, no colours and shading.
NOTE: For the image example, i am using the "glurm" picture i drew, its a decent example of what to have.
---STEP 1---
Scan your black outlined image on a possible high DPI setting to achieve maximum results for quality and clearness, if not, just try and use something that will produce a reasonable result. If your scanning program has the setting for it... choose the "Line-Art" setting, that means it will ONLY scan black and white colours, and produce a clear scan of your image.
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
---STEP 2---
Open photoshop, and create a new template with the same 'length' and 'width' dimensions as the image you are going to use, and choose 'white' as your background, click OK.
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-2.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
---STEP 3---
Create "TWO" new layers now by clicking on the new layer button, and load up your image into the top layer you just created (should be called Layer 2 by default)
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-3.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
So now you should have a white 'background' layer, then above that should be a transparent 'layer 1', then above that should be 'layer 2' which contains your image.
---STEP 4---
Assuming the background on your drawing is TOTALLY white (no shading or gradients or anthing), click on the layer containing your image, and choose "white" as your foreground colour.
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-4.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Next, click on the "Select" tab at the top, then choose "Color Range".
Use the following settings:
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-5.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Click OK. What this does is it will look at what colour you have selected as your foreground colour, and it will select ALL of that colour in your image.
---STEP 5---
As you 'should' now see, all of the white in your drawing has been selected!! Now what?... hit delete!
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/settings-6.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Now if you look at the layer now in the layers palette, it should be your black outline on a transparent background, sweet!
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/Settings-7.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
---STEP 6---
If you then select the layer underneath your drawing "layer 1", you may now start to colour on it, and it should colour beatifully under your picture!
<img src='http://members.optushome.com.au/bloodfart/jason/Other/settings-8.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
I hoped this has helped atleast a few people! ^_^
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then put it above your colours and set it to multiply.
just because theres a chance you could loose very fine lines if you do it your way
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Im still trying to learn photosop so this is good for us
i spend to much time colouring my comics to care that much about lineart
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Yeah, theres many different ways! some may be easier, but i reckon this is a simple method that is effective, and works, but maybe its just me!
I hope i have atleast helped a few people out of the 100+ views, haha