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secret-pony β Tutorial: Coloring inside lines (layer clipping)
Published: 2013-08-20 17:03:33 +0000 UTC; Views: 79369; Favourites: 920; Downloads: 448
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This is probably the question I receive most: "How come you never color outside your lines?"Well... here's my secret...
There are other (simpler) ways, e.g. using 'preserve opacity', but this is just the method I use and prefer. Why? Because this way, if you spot you made a mistake somewhere when you're done with your drawing, you can easily navigate to the layer where you made your mistake and fix it without any risk of accidentally messing up other parts of your drawing.
Don't ask me how it's done in Photoshop, Ilustrator, GIMP... Because I don't know. I have never used any other program but SAI.
If you're looking for more resources for drawing (ponies), check out my other tutorials .
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you are a godsend. this has made my whole day!! do you know how long I've been looking for a tutorial on thisΒ Β Β Β
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You are a SAI Wizard as far as I'm concerned. The Grand Mage of SAI, if you will. Holy hell.Β
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Gosh i am so glad i stumbled upon this tutorial ;; Tysm !!
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This was really helpful, thank you! I'd just like to ask, how do i separate parts of the drawing into layers on lineart? I followed your steps and have my image, but i now want to divide the parts into layers, like a layer with just hair, one with jusy eyes, etc. However im not sure how to split up my lineart like that, or select different areas with the magic wand to do that..
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Oh, I'm afraid you can't easily split up your lineart into layers.
It's easiest if you draw each part on a separate layer from the start.
If need be, you can try to select certain areas with the selection tools: selection rectangle and the lasso (next to the magic wand) and/or with the selection brushes (SelBrush and Deselect, in your assortment of brushes) and cut/paste them onto new layers.
The magic wand is probably not going to be of much use for you in this case. It selects all things that are "the same" (same color or same transparancy), but lineart is completely 100% the same (all black lines, usually).
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That's true lol XD But thank you, this really helped!
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Dis tu feras des traductions de tes tutos en français *^* ?
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I'm sorry, my French isn't good enough to understand what you're saying.
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You say will make translations of your tutorielles in French * ^ * ?
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Well, since my French is so bad I couldn't understand you, I'm afraid I can't translate them in French! xD
Sorry
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It doesn't matter x'D
Thank you for having answered me ^^
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I think this is the simpler ways, your tutorial is easy to understand ^^
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Thank you very much!
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when i use the bucket to fill in the page it doesnt show up on layer oneΒ
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Sorry for the late reply.
Could you maybe show me a screenshot of what is going wrong?
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I don't know how to thank you enough. This makes coloring so much easier for me.
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When I bucket fill with a colour, nothing happens, no colour appears?
I did everything you said to do.
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Sorry for the late response.
If you're still experiencing this problem, can you show me a screenshot of where it's going wrong?
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Don't worry, I fixed it.
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Alright! Go, you! ^^
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Never mind, I figured out how to fix it ._.
thank you for the tutorial
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This is very helpful information. Thanks!
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I'm glad you found it helpful! <3
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I'm sorry but, what do you mean by "make a new layer over the color layer"? Is "color layer" referring to the lineart layer or the layer I filled up with color? The entire last bit kind of confuses me and I do everything perfectly up until that point. Any help would be appreciated. ; ;
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The layer filled with color.
If layer A is clipped onto layer B, you can only draw on layer A in the area's where you have drawn something on layer B.
Just try it out and mess around with it for a bit, it's easier to see it than to explain it.
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That makes more sense. Thank you so much!
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that you soooooo much! This helped a ton!!Β
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I'm glad it did! Good luck! ^^
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This helped a lot, thank you! ( And Pack Rat is adorable, I have a few pony ocs as well~ )
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I'm glad it helped! (and thank you!! ^^)
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My goodness, Kami-sama! TT . TT
This solved my problem, now I can stop coloring so manually that it's time consuming! TT ~ TT
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Woot! Now go poop out more art at record speed! xD
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This tutorial is amazing! Thank you so, so much for putting it together - helped a ton!
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I'm glad to help! Good luck!
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I couldn't find this tutorial anywhere! Thank you! ^.^
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I'm glad you found it useful! ^^
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Hope it helps! ^^
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I tried this, and everything went well until I was to remove the area outside of the lineart. It wonΒ΄t let me use the cut tool. IΒ΄ve tried doing it both as you wrote and manually. I have the trial version - could that be an explanation? Otherwise, what could?
Edit: Nevermind, I found the problem.
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I'm so confused...
When Ive done the coloring for my base layer, create another layer above it, clip it to the base, and drew on it, it went outside the base.
But when I do the little "circle-squiggly line" test shown above on separate layers, it works.
I don't understand why it doesn't work for my base... :_:
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I think it may be because the white outside my base color is not transparent...
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And when I tried to apply "Luminosity to Transparency" to my base,
It allowed the clipping to work, but then the colors were light and faded looking.
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