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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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Umh... I MUST try that...
.. but I need to draw something first.. 9.9U
THANKS!
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BTW, a fun part (to me) Is the "use your new powers wisely, Daniel-san".... X3... THE DRAWING IS TALKING TO ME!!!... X3
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Thanks so much for sharing this technique, it is very generous! This will help me so much, and the part at the end about how it worked was interesting - only when understanding can you apply it to other things, and so on, I guess...
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I don't have time read all of it, but it looks really cool XD
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Wow cool trick!! I do have a question: I have PSP 9, and i don't think hey have channels on there, but do you think there's a way to do this on there??
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perhaps with masks or layer modes, but I can't be sure. I've never used psp :\
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thx for the nice tutorial
im not sure how the preserve transparency works tho... what do i do after i selected that option?! seemed like nothing happened
thanks again for all this!
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if you preserve transparency you can color the lines like you see at the end in 1b.
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Where is the preserve transparency button? Sorry, a bit new to photoshop!!
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top left of the layers pallette, to the right of the word "Lock:"
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tho its not useful to me atm, when i get a graphics tablet then it will become part of a bible of photoshop techniques for me
thanks
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Very cool. I didnt know that. ^^ Thanks for sharing. Ill probably use this from now on.
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that was awesome. I read this a month ago but never really had any good line art to try it out. But i did it! After reading it like 20 or so times i did it in less that ten minutes!
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real soon it'll be second nature for you!
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Finally I find something that makes more sense with lineart clean up without making every single one of my drawings look soft. Thanks for even putting this out!
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That is the best written tutorial I've ever read! You kept it from being dull, but it was very clear and easy to understand. 
Question: Does this method produce a cleaner lineart with less work? Cuz for the multiply trick, I simply adjust brightness and contrast and then manually erase things I don't like.
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technically it's the same look with multipy. this is only to get the lineart separated properly. but like you, I use the levels, contrast, and all that to clean up too ^^
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Ah, okei. Yeah, since multiply is easier and less time consuming, unless I have line color to change, I'll stick to the easy method. XD Yours isn't too hard either though. Just more time consuming. ^ ^
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My undying thanks, I have been trying to figure out how to lift for ages, I had gotten as far as makign a new channel but had not persued it further. You have opened my eyes to a whole new range of colouring opportunites. I AM PREPARED FOR BACK BREAKING HEAVY LIFITING!
- 'Spinspin SUGAH!'
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awesome tutorial, thanks a lot, mate
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Good..there better be no problems. I'm watching you with the eye of Sauron...
but seriously though, the tutorial was funny as informative as it was, and to that, I bow in gratitude to you, mate
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...Holy...crap...this has seriously just gotten me out of the depressed slump that I've been in for the last couple of weeks!! This has been the one thing that I've been having serious problems with! (weeell... there's also coloring..but that's another thing that I'll just have to overcome in my own time ><...)
But thank you SO much for putting this on here...you may not have come up with it, but YOU are the one who has shown it to me; and for that I am truly grateful!
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^.^ Nifty! Extremely helpful. thankyou
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Great tutorial!! It really helped me alot!
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WoW totally informative, I always did something similar with PS, always in the chanels panel. My prob now is i have switched into corel, my bro bought it for me for Xmas 
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glad it could help a bit ^^
sorry though, I know nothing about corel
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Yaay! I tried it a while ago, but then I had some trouble (I couldn't find the channel section and was just messing with layers... I'm not that bright 
But now it worked!
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I'm 
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(oh yeah! we can laugh all day long bebe!)
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As someone who doesn't have a tablet to do digital inking, this is super helpful
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Thanks plenty, getting lineart cleaned from scan has been my age-old problem
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Nice tutorial. Finally I can color the line art ^_^ .
But I've noticed one thing: when you fill the selection, the final result looks darker then the standard "multiply" method. That happens because what is grey in the channel, becomes black (near-black) in the layer.
Is there a solution for that?
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you can try fill it with another color too instead of black ^^
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you could try reducing the lineart opacity
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Can't wait to try it. Your using Adobe right?
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Complete, comprehensive instructions: +30 awesome points.
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Well I quickly went through this and it look very useful. I will devour this for use as soon as I have a spare moment.
I would like to Thank you firstly and let you know that I have
I always appreciate when someone with artistic skills like yours takes the time to help out the rest of the community with a tutorial that gives insight into what could have taken years of fumbling around to learn.
Some things just click after someone shows you in the tutorial format. Line art has been something that I have wanted to work on... I have never been happy with the way things have worked for me... I stumbled onto this tutorial quite by accident... a friend had a link back to some of your Line art and wel, afterl drifting onto your page I was immediately enamored with your work in the form of the Chinese Bamboo Girl... and who wouldn't be..... But after shaking off the initial drool factor and looking around.... I found the Heavy Lifting Tutorial.....
And that leads me back to this comment.
Thanks for the tutorial and the chance to learn at a more accelerated rate.... How to do the things I wish I were better at. I will need plenty of time to look around your gallery. Great stuff.
Wow... That was a seriously long winded way of saying "You Rock, Thanks!"
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thanks for the kind words!
I understand how frustrating it can be to "discover" things on your own
lord knows it took me forever XD
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They were well deserved!
Great job and you are welcome.
I have been consuming as many Books and tutorials as I can to pick things up.... but a lot of times the books "Assume" you have a certain amount of knowledge That isn't always the case. So that is where Toots like this come in handy.
Taking the real experience of someone Doing it and showing the nuts and bolts it takes to get it done.
Thanks again.
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