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GH-MoNGo — Preparing Line Art in PS
Published: 2006-08-17 01:04:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 5109; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 187
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This was done in Photoshop 7, but it should work with all versions of Photoshop that support Channels.By the way, the character in this piece isn't mine. His name is Grull Half-Ogre, and he belongs to *HoundofCullin .
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
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I was in the layers section. Do I do the filling on the "Lines" layer? It is obvious that the lines layers should be used for that. Unfortunately, it only worked on the "Background" layer. I make so many mistakes, but I learn from them. It's a good thing, because Photoshop can be complicated.
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You have to fill the Background with White and the lines with Black when you have loaded the selection from the "Load Selection" menu.
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I did pay attention to the comments and the tut, but the same thing happens. I don't know where I went wrong.
The tutorial is good, no matter how many mistakes I've made. 
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Alright...thanks. I hope I do it correctly.
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Thank you for this wonderful information, now my line art won`t come on the computer mess up.
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Humm have to try this method... it's a bit diff then what I done with channels
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ooooh now that is really useful!
trying this out immediately...
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I'm glad you found it helpful!
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I'll have to try this out. Maybe one day I'll be a decent fucking colorist!
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Very good for the sketchy pieces like that
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Yep yep!
It's good for any kind of line art, really.
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Seems a bit overkill doesn't it? When I need to colour a sketch, I just fiddle with the levels to up the dark and lower the midtones, then set a layer above it to multiply and put in the colours... That way you don't get an aliased feel to it, which can sometimes happen when you're using the fill tool (which is banned on my computer 
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which can sometimes happen when you're using the fill tool
What you do is you lock transparency and colour with the brush tool if you want to colour the lines.
It's kinda nice to make the lines other colours sometimes. It's especially good for pieces with a lot of light-to-dark contrast.
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Yeah, if I have good sketches I'll sometimes make them another colour with the control-u tool, but usually I just colour over lineart onto a transparent layer anyway..
Do you have a tablet yet?
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Do you have a tablet yet?
I've had one for five months.
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You learn something new every day!
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Hoo! so youre meaning you can ink the drawings without the ink going to the white areas?
now THATS a nice technique. definitely a 
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youre welcome, im trying it if it works next time i open photoshop. if it doesnt....
nah, maybe im just doing something wrong then. ill try it out until i manage to do it
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Well, if it doesn't work, I can try and walk you through it, or you can send me the piece and I can do it for you if you want.
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Brilliant! This is just the sort of thing I've been trying to figure out for myself. Dude, you're my freaking hero!
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Neat, pretty good technique for preserving it, without resorting to contrast/brightness, or setting to multiply. Useful.
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Um... and why don't you just want to set the lineart to multiply? Just curious...
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Because if you want to colour the lines afterward, you'll have to do it the messy way (which is tracing over them with the brush tool... 
This way, you can just lock transparency and colour the parts you want to colour.
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Ah, okay... to be honest, I don't understand how some of the stuff you're doing here works, but the thing is, I just turn my inks into 50/50 black and white anyway, so if I want to color the lines, I can just magic wand them.
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Oo, a very interesting technique! I've never tried this before, but it looks like a great way to separate the lines from the white...In painter when I have scanned lineart or lineart from another program i always have to make the lineart into a watercolor layer so i don't have to use multiply layers, but since photoshop and painter are compatible I can use this!
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