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Tutorial showing 4 ways of preparing a digital line-art for colouring.WARNING: large file. It might take a while before the tutorial shows up on your screen, so please, be patient.
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I am sure this is very obvious to most people out there, but many still seem to get their paint buckets, magic wands or erasers out when colouring line-arts! This tutorial shows the process of making any line-art appear on a transparent layer, which will allow you to add colour without ruining the lines.
The steps shown were all done in Photoshop CS2, but I'm sure at least one of the techniques will work in other programs such as GIMP or Painter as long as you make a few changes. Please feel free to ask if you have any queries about any of the techniques or steps.
You are not authorised to redistribute this tutorial or the original image without my written permission, or claim as your own. Please respect my wishes.
- Tutorial and Line-art Β© Malin TrΓ€isk
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this is very helpful, thankyou for making it!
i just have one question - when you fill in the base color of the lineart, do you just use something like the paint bucket tool?
thanks!
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Thank you, I'm glad you found it useful 
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you're welcome!
sorry about that, haha, i'm not the best at explaining things.
i think i've worked it out, though, haha.
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Ok, great 
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Nice tutorial 
Some of ways I knew before but masking is totally new for me. I shall try this method one day
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Thanks, I'm glad you found it useful
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Thanks! This really helped me! Faving it!
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this will be soo usedul thank you for makeing it
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My pleasure, glad you find it helpful
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Just like mine, but for GIMP 
This is handy, I now know how to do it photoshop style
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Cool
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I always used the brush thing - but never thought of the others before
maybe I would have thought of the multiply version sometime but the mask thing is just genius!
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I only really knew about the two first aswell, although I had heard of both the channeling and masking techniques before. So I thought I'd do a bit more research into them, and it turns out they are in fact quite simple to do, at least the channeling one
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yep - and you put it all into such a clean and nice layout 
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This is really neat! I never realized there were so many possibilities.
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(Though I've never used free lineart before XD)
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I generally never use line-arts apart from my own, and those I delete almost immediately after I've started colouring
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Very interesting techniques, none of which I've used but I especially like the brush idea. To add colour the line-art I've always just locked the transparent pixels on the layer and coloured away.
I think I shall try one of these in my next picture.
Awesome tutorial Cerona!
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I'm glad you found them interesting
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Omg I have never heard of multiply! It seems way easier than masking!
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Oh wow, really? It's the most well-known out of the whole bunch, and definitely the easiest one too
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XD Yeah figures I would be the one to do the longer methods and just totally miss the easy one. I did the method yesterday! It was awesome so thank you!!
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Haha, that always seems to be the case XD But I'm glad if the other technique worked well for you!
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This is a fabulous tutorial! Very simple and concise, and a nice, clean layout.
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Glad you think so!
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i love this tutorial. : D
I can't wait to try your methods. xD
thank you <3
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Cool, I hope it works alright! I'm always a bit nervous about explaining how to do something, even if it's something simple, because there are so many things that might seem obvious to me but confusing to other people
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oh, I have never used this method with channels or masking! It looks kinda complicated, but your explanations are just perfect! I'll have to try these two methods now
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I don't work with line-arts a lot, so I haven't actually used them myself either 
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cool tutorial, you should make one for your epic shading too
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Thanks! Yeah I will, I'm starting from the basics so to speak
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You are awesome! Taking things step by step. So many people just jump right in and just confuse the rest of us. I can't wait for your next tutorial! 
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no problem
Wow, can't wait, you're trully an amazing artist, would be my honor to try to draw like u
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I'll try and do my best in explaining the steps later! I'm just so afraid I'll mess something up or explain wrongly - so many people have told me they want a colouring tutorial, so now the pressure is really on to not disappoint them all 
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wow, can't wait
i understand today is your birthday? Happy birthday, i would have drawn a gift but i had health issues
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Thank you so much for explaining this, and your steps are easy to follow. So far in my photoshop class we've been learning about channels and the many different ways to select things. It's always great to apply them to artwork as well.
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No problem! I don't know if people will find it useful or not, but seeing as I've got a few line-arts where the lines are merged with the white background, I thought it could be nice to have a tutorial showing how to use them properly and not just grab the paintbucket straight away
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woah, i never knew there were so many ways 
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