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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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Very cool tecnique
Now my lineart won't kill me like it used to 
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Wow this is cool ! Althought I dont have photoshop 
P.S Which photo shop do you recomend for beginners ?
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photoshop 5 is great for beginners, but I say jump headlong into 7+
you'll be glad you did
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Ah, I've seen this tutorial on a webpage, but it's nice to have it in graphic form now! <3 Especially since my bookmarks got deleted. Thanks for this!
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Yeah, I think so, actually! XD
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cool man. instade of the first 2 steps you point out, image mode> grayscale and back to RGB. just do: image> adjustments > Desaturate.
it's the same, but in one action instade of two, saves time for thoose with a slower comptuer
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yeah, that could work. I made an edit to my description if you wanna check it out
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psh i never thoght there is a diffrance! the outcome really isn't the same
still ncie u put it into the descreption, i feel famous now 
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>.< Lineart is annoying to do. For my next pic I'm gonna try this.
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Nice wording, I enjoyed this tut even though I dont really do that much line art 
But I thought it was cool anyway
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I'm glad that I could finally find a tutorial on lineart. Thankyou. But theres just one thing. After the last couple of steps my picture didn't come out the right way. On the first try it looked as though there was tracing paper above it, and on the second, the entire backgroud of the outline turned black. Is that supposed to happen, what did I do wrong? Please tell me.
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did you remember to click the invert button when you loaded the channel as a selection?
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I'm sorry. This thing is just not working for me. ( Not you, the photoshop). I'm trying to hold on, but I'm bearly getting anywhere. Sorry for wasting your time, it's really difficult.
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no bad i have action in PS that does it for me
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Very helpful!~
I'm so trying this out when I have to color next time and it was easy to understand too. ^-^
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nice tutorial, made it seems really easy hehe. great job
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Works slightly better than the technique I was using. Thanks!
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duplicate original lineart and delete white by selecting it in channels. There's a very slight loss of quality, even after selecting the lineart and going over it in black again. This is not the case with the method you've displayed.
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It's a great tut, but instead of converting to grayscale and back to RGB, why don't just click "desaturate"?
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i edited the description to explain why ^^
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D'OH! I forgot to read your note! Sorry!!!!
I never knew there was a difference
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Or since you're using adobe photoshop you could just download the "eliminate white" filter [link] and remove the background in one simple step.
This is a real cute tutorial so don't take that the wrong way! And there are many good things besides removing the white in this tutorial. I just really like the eliminate white filter.
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"Eliminate White filter is a Photoshop plug-in filter that generates transparency in a layer based on the "whiteness" of each pixel color"
that's the exact same thing, cool!
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Ooh! I helped!
*feels good about helping*
Oh, the only thing is it can't be changed if it's grayscale or the background image. But you pretty much said that same thing in your tutorial so you probably already knew that! n_n
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Wow! Realy helpful! Thanks a lot. ^^
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I thought this tutorial was pretty nice, and as others have said it may come in handy when I scan my art in.
Sorry if this questions been brought up, but what program are you using in the tutorial? I've used something like it before, but just can't remember (all I know was it was used for flash) and could you tell me where to find it?
thanks.
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It's photoshop; says it in the first paragraph.
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it's photoshop ^^
you should be able to download a demo from adobe.com
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I'd rather have a Dr. Pepper... son. Good tut btw. If I ever tried to draw this may come in handy.
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Cool tutorial; learned quite a bit. That pen she's holding must weight a ton; she's a cute looking girl, too.
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Thank you for setting up this tutorial. Its very helpful. You can also do the chanels and stuff like that with drawings youve done with a tablet to right? Thank you again >:3
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it would work well for those too ^^
but you may not need them if you draw on a layer >:4
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NICE TUT...VERY HELPFULL...KEEP IT UP!
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oh, nice trick. I extract my lines using a mask, which uses basically the same process ^^
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that's a slick method actually
technically a mask is a temporary channel, but it's cool how things can be done in so many different ways
it's a real testament to the power of photoshop
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Sorry for not reading all the comments, there were so many >.<
A couple of things.
(1) I love your tutorials. I read a lot of them, I'm completely self-taught in photoshop for about 5 years now thanks to tutorials. I think perhaps you have the /best/ tutorials I've ever read - and that's saying something. You're so funny!
(2) OMG I LOVE WHAT THIS TAUGHT!!!!!!!!! One of my biggest most annoying problems was my scanned in sketches and painting them --- I /hate/ the multiply trick, it totally ruins colors and it shouldn't be used -- so what I ended up doing was laying my lineart/sketch layer OVER everything and lowering opacity to around 40% and then re-drawing the lines by hand. It sucked and I hated having to do it. This saves OODLES of time, omg, thank you /SO/ much.
(3) I think I'm retarded because I know about channels full-on and am very familiar with them and this option never occured to me >.<
(4) Mention somewhere, since so many people read your stuff, that dodge and burn tools should be banned from all artwork
Loved your spicy curry tut btw -- anyway to get a more nuts and bolts coloring tutorial for the VERY VERY new of us? I'm THAT new... I don't know much.
God knows, I need a mentor *CRIES*
<3 to you, made my morning with this.
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I'm SO with you on number 3
when it finally occurred to me, i was like >DOH<
as for a more nuts and bolts tutorial, I have another here that you might wanna check out: [link]
it may help a bit too ^^
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Thanks a ton, looks good
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Does this work if you just have some clean pencil lines? Very good tut by the way!
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it'll work extremely well for clean lines! ^^
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On both pen and pencil? *Finally gaining some hope that she can throw away her inking pens*
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most definitely! as long as you remember to convert to grayscale in the first step, it shouldn't matter what method you use to draw ^^
I'd still keep the inking pens though
*never throws art stuff away* XD
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