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Rambi is *zambi 's original character
she was nice enough to let me draw her and use her in a tutorial
( thank you stinklady -3:I )
well, I decided to create a tutorial on lineart separation
this should help everyone having trouble with their lineart,
and help those with a desire to understand advanced setup
sorry it's so very technical, and not very fun, but it's MUCH too important to overlook!
so enjoy ^^
//* EDIT
for those of you that know the Desaturation trick and want to use it instead for Step1, feel free. But there IS a difference between desaturating an image and converting it to grayscale. Look closely at this image ( [link] ), and you'll see that the grayscaled version is lighter than the desaturated version. What difference does this make? Hell if I know
But I trust a full grayscale conversion over an RGB desaturation any day.
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I am not able to color my pencil lineart.
I didn't have any trouble in any of the steps except kind of during step 6. I didn't get a complete dancing line outline of my lineart after doing the step, instead I little dancng lines here and there on the face only. But even so I was able to do the next step.
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i laughed so hard, and enjoyed it so much<3
fav'd.
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I think this is just the kind of tutorial I needed since I'm tired of the old "Multiply" trick, which is convenient only if you want to keep all of your line art black.
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Having finally tried the tutorial, I can s it works like a charm. Thank you.
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Um this would help, but I don't have Photoshop. I have GIMP instead.
Would this work in GIMP?
But this could help...
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Actually doing such things to the multiple line art isn't that hard. Once your base coloring is done (or if you want rainbow lines, just your line art) you can apply a 'lighten' frame above the line art or a 'screen' with the modifications, setting it to mask only on the one layer and not the subsequent ones bellow. Takes only a few seconds, so the whole 'I DARE you to try this...' is kinda unneeded.
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Thank you so much for this tutorial! I've been looking for a great tutorial like this forever and I finally found it!
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plz man can u send me some links on how to digital paint
ill be gladly appreciated
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NO WAI, this actually works. D: I've NEVER been able to find a method that works this well! Now I can have fancy colored lines and stuff! >:3
Thanks a ton for sharing this technique~
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Hey, thanks for this tutorial, it's really awesome. : D
I did this piece using your technique. I liked the way you explained everything. Very humorous and eeeeasy to understand. I can't count the number of times that I've tried out a photoshop tutorial [I'm a PS noob] and there were so many things that I didn't understand...tutorials for people who already knew what all the PS features were, I guess. P:
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SQUEE this was soooo helpful!! Thanks you TONS for putting this up!
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this tutorial is great but sorry man...every damn time i try to load the selection adobe says "No pixel selected...i red this tutorial twice and really slowly word by word and always the same thing..i'm it doesn't have to do with the cs2 version I#m using, does it?
i would be really happy if you could reply!
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i loved this tutorial, so simple yet so powerful, I'll keep an eye on your deviants for more awesome tutorials. thanks!
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Well, when I feel like laying down the time to try it out, I will.
But, seeing as even though multiply is limiting, it's very easy to pull off.
So...I'll try it later. Maybe.
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Hey, you rock! This is the only one of these I've done that's actually worked well
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hey...
this tecnique is exelent!! this is the tutorial I've been waiting for a long, long time!!!
It was grat when the LineArt came up ready to work.
thank you so much!
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thank you for the tut,sure it helps ALOT!!XDD
have a nice day man!
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=_= Sigh I've been trying to do this tutorial for over a year and I still can't get it to work. So if someone could help me I'd be so greatful.
- when I get step j it says that no pixels were selected, so I go to check the channels to see the lineart I pasted there. Well the channel I pasted it to is deselected and the lineart on that channel is gone ;_; *so frustrating* >_<
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This is woot. xD
I always used the olour range way of doing it, but this helps so much. You own at life! XD
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OMG SAAAVIIOUR!!
This is my salvation from the pixel-ly, white dotted lineart everytime i use the Select colour range option = ___=
Thank you soooo much!!
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no prob, glad it helped!
color range was one of my first methods XD
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thank yoo!!! now im getting somwhere! this is the most simplest tutorial ive seen!
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sounds kool... pity my photoshop died - i wonder if i can use it with paintshop pro 
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Thats so much for the amazing tutorial you do a great job explaining everything easily the simplest to follow I've ever done
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Wow, this way seems to be less of a hassle. Can't wait to try it out...as soon as I can get my photoshop program to work again.
Thanks for the tutorial!
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Ever since i learned about this, my digital art life has changed. That damn "multiply" option was decent, but this not only is better, but it "feels" much, much better!
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lol, same here. multiply is just so limiting...
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When i get to about step j, my image tunrs a verrrry light pink and i cant really see, it....
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try hitting the "q" key. you may be in quick mask mode and need to get out
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i got it working right after that lol.
But i still like multiply better, cause this way seems to be used for colouring on one layer?
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actually, this way will enable you to color on multiple layers (like I'm sure you do), with the added benefit of coloring your lines (since they're on a layer of their own and a 100% black / opacity combo)
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riiiight, ok....well i suppose when i wanna coolour my lines i can use this lol
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Thank you so much for your tutorials. They are so helpful.
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that is morge than great it helped me ALOT!!! thanks man appreciate you Tutorial your the BEST EVER!!!!!!!!
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holy F*** it worked o.o; THANKS SO MUCH TT_________TT <3333333 I needed it D: <3
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Realy helpfull!
lol
~Thank you!
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I know this is very old, but I just finished it and I want to say . THANK YOU .... I just did my first clean line art, and it looks great .... Thank you
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Great tutorial!
I won't get to try it till tomorrow evening, but it's already apparent (thanks to good explanation 
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now i know what everyone's talking about! now my brain can rest.
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whoaa. Brilliant tutorial ^_^ So helpful! Theres no way I'm using "multiply" after this
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Kyaa - you're a god! o_o Just got linked here by a friend 'cause I was ranting about crappy lineart, and this helped fix it up right away X3
Thank you so so much! I'll be using this way in the future, undoubtedly
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Cool bananas - will be using this for sure
Next stop, gonna get me some spicy brush noodles!
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I love you.
This has helped my line art in the past 30 minutes so much, its like, amazing.
You rock.
:]
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I added this to favs for more references, but I got lost on step G. =/ How do I move the alpha channel to "layers" ? Or the question I'm asking is How do I convert Channels into Layers? Zomg help plz? 
And Nice tutorial. ^___^
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In step G you're merely deleting your background layer.
In steps H, I, and J you'll load your channel information into a "selection", and copy that onto a layer via "Fill" in step K.
Hope that helps.
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It did. But on step G, I filled the layer with white. Then I couldn't delete it. And I don't know how to put the channel of the lineart into the layer.
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