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Serio555 — Preparing Linearts
Published: 2005-05-18 06:01:17 +0000 UTC; Views: 25463; Favourites: 563; Downloads: 11161
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Just a quick tut on how I prepare my linearts for colouring. This same method can also be used to colour the lines if the inking was good enough.Software: Photoshop CS
EDIT: This method works best for inked linearts that has nice, clear lines. However, it is POSSIBLE to use this method to clean up scanned pencil drawing, but you need to play with the levels a bit more and perhaps do a lot more cleaning up than you do with inked drawings. This tutorial is more about cleaning up the lineart - not inking it. One of the reason I did this tut is also because I might make some basic CGing tut in the near future, so this is the first step to it, I guess.
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Thank you very much. Have to say too, that the picture you used was very very neat, and looks really smooth and clean. Keep up the good work!
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HEY, THIS LOOKS CLEVER.
THANKS FOR MAKING THIS, I'LL TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT SOMEDAY TOO.
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Thank you so much for this tutorial^^ I'm a newb on photoshop so yeah, this pretty much helps a lot
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I've explained this technique to sooo many people--it's great to have somewhere to link them to now! Thanks!
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i looked into ur older works cuz i wanted to make my lineart better 
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Thank you thank you thank you and 1,000,000 debts be owed to you!! First tut I've seen for lineart that actually tells it in terms for a simpleton like me to understand.
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Wow, this is a really helpful tutorial. Thank you for posting~!!! ^_^
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*2 years later after original post* why thank you! how helpful!
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OMG THANK YOU! I always thought it was a pain to ink/prepair a pic to get coloured, but this mede it 10000000 times easier! 
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Thank you so much! You are a god!
I got stuck a few times along the way but that's just because I'm incompetent at using photoshop
It was easy to follow and I can finally colour my line art on hte computer
Thanks again
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to ERASE!! the white lines!!!!this method is WAY MUCH EASIER!!! man im dumb, Thank you very much for posting this....makes my life a lot easier!!!
srry for da double post I press replyby accident
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thankies muchly! this helped oodles!! ^^
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Wait, so this is for scanned in line art, no?
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Hehe, this could be very useful.
Thankee for taking the time to make it <33
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i used your Tut. today. It works great. 
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I would consider myself a good artist, and roughly a year ago I started to do manga, I LOVE IT! I Got a computer, scanner, and photoshop not to long ago and I'm starting. This was extremely useful. I tried a few other tuts, but I coudn't get it too work, this is the first to work for me, and its the onl one I need. THANK YOU!
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Not knowing how to do this has been the bane of my existence for ages. You have my undying gratitude!
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This is a really good prepping tutorial and it helped m a lot! Thanks!
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my one dusnt have the flood fill tool..its adobe CS2 9.0...should it be therer??? plz help!
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Don't panic, the flood fill tool is in EVERY graphic software, even MS paint. It is also called the paint bucket tool (which is what the icon usually is) and in photoshop it is often grouped together with the gradient tool. If you can't find the paint bucket icon try finding it behind the gradient tool. there should be a small arrow on the bottom corner of the icons that you can drag out.
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yer lol my sister just found it 4 me...lol im sooo stupid!
thx anyways
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I'm not sure what went wrong.. and you seem to be really good at photoshop.. so... I scanned my picture in, but it won't let me click anything in my channels or layers. It has them all locked. Do you know what's wrong with them?
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Make sure you have the picture mode in RGB and not greyscale, and if you cannot alter the picture at all (brush tool, eraser and everything else locked) then try saving it as a different file first (in Photoshop PSD format rathern than JPEG or BMP).
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My picture is in PSD.. and you were right, it was in greyscale, but the RGB scale thing was locked so that I couldn't get it into RGB mode. Any ideas how to switch it?
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Image>Mode>RGB
If all else fails, save it as a JPEG, then reopen the JPEG and save as a PSD. Hope that helps.
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Woohoo it worked! Thanks sooooo much. I'm really new to photoshop and have no idea what I'm doing half of the time.
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Hey:
Thanks for making this really useful tutorial!
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awwwww! i want photo shop!!! is there like some kinda online black market where you can download photoshop for freee?
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*squeeee* thankiiieees! I'm going to see how my coloring comes out on a CLEAN lineart for once
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This is a WONDERFUL tutorial for those who want to have crisp linearts without the trouble of having to outline everything again in Photoshop. Especially those who don't have tablets. This tutorial is a must-read for people who have trouble with linearts. It's so simple!
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thanks, but to be honest the crispness depends a lot on the lineart itself and the inking. If the original lineart isn't clean to begin with this method would require a lot of manual cleaning up. This tutorial is about transferring the lineart to a new layer so it's easier to work with more than anything.
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Well, it's still a fabulous tutorial and a very handy one for people who can ink traditionally but don't have the patience to redo a lineart on the computer.
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