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Tutorial: Preparing Lineart
Published: 2009-07-29 05:29:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 81357; Favourites: 3036; Downloads: 1541
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DescriptionI never feel right making tutorials because, I don't consider myself a very advanced user of Photoshop. I never feel like I'm in the right place telling other people how to do it.And I know this isn't an advanced tutorial, but many people don't know how to do this. I also know there are other tutorials out there explaining this exact same thing. . .
I was asked recently how to get the white off sketch images and it reminded me of how often I really am asked that. So have a tutorial for everyone in the future who needs to know.
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yay, I've always wanted to see a tutorial from Shin!
I use PS Elements 4 though, so I can't use this. :'c
I hope someday you make one for coloring in the future. I still fail at that haha XD
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:0 there is a person shape on the wing
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I faves this... coloring traditional lineart is always hard >.,
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Yeah ! it was a bit hard to understand for me, but I succeed in doing it ^^
thank you for these explanations \o/
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this will surely come in handy 
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;3; You don't know how incredibly much this helped me after 1,5 hour of looking for a method! <33
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Thank you for sharing! It's really easy way to get rid of white. Thanks again
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dammit
i have photoshop elements. im too cheap for PS7
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hmmm....... i could if i want to....
lol...
*iconteeheeheeplz:
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lol, but you didn't get the idea from me
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you are a GOD!!! I hate doing stuff that i sketch on here cause I only know how to just trace over it! Omg. I'm excited now.
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yay!! excited to color pencil lineart?! :3
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Nice tutorial.
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An excuse for dropping the $800 you don't have.
However I'm trying to remember how to do line gradients in something as old as Elements 2.
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i love elements 2, have fun trying to do gradients in it, lawll. you can make a layer of it, ctrl+g it, and set the layer mode to 'color' but other than that you can't really do anything.
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You forgot to lock the transparent pixels and link the layers. That seems to work for me.
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Ah, well I was talking about if the sketch is on a white BG; aka without transparent pixels.
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OK. Yeah it can get a little complicated, then. I always convert the scan to a working layer and delete the white areas. I can then use another layer underneath for my flats without disturbing the lineart. 👍: 0 ⏩: 0
The best way I see to preserve the original bg would be to wand select the linework, then make a new transparent layer and do the
I'll have to try that out and see if it works.
It wasn't advanced, but it was exactly what I needed! Thanks C:!
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I think it's cool that people like you take time to give away your secrets to people you don't even know. It's very kind.
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xD on the contrary, I'm too much of a hard-ass to do any tutorials on how I draw or color, haha. But I'm glad you appreciate these ones~
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ah, um. hai. i has question ;n;
i attempted to mess around with this (because normally i just use my lines on multiply/reline) but the "circle made of dots" won't work for me, er, basically it won't let me use it : [link]
btw i am using 7.0
is there some setting or something i'm missing?
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Nifty! You can also Control-Click on a layer image and it will select the alpha of the layer. Or on a channel and it will select the channel stuff. I just learned this yesterday, I'm not sure I'm explaining it right
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Ohoho~ so that's how you do gradient lines!
Thanks for making this tutorial, Shinerai! <3 -toodles off to go try it out-
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You crazy kids that can afford Photoshop! *shakes fist* I'll get it someday...! XD
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thanks again, it's a big help C:
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Wait.
... I thought you always said you would never make tutorials. o _o
Not that I mind or anything, I'm just utterly confused. xD;
And this method of ridding the white is much more efficient than what I had done (change lineart layer to multiply).
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xD not ever on how to draw or color, haha.
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Aww, keep your deep and dark secrets to yourself then! xD
Naw, I think it's pretty cool of you helping us out. Even if there are millions of other tutorials out there.
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little question. do I have to select the lines again when changing their color? The whole picture turns orange when I fill the LINE COLOR layer! why? what am I doing wrong?
I did everything till step 5. My background is blue, the lines are pulled off. right. but now I do the keyboard thingie with the layer above the LINES layer n' then when I fill, the whole picture turns orange.
Can you help me, shin?
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While you're on the LINE COLOR layer, try going to layer > group with previous.
tell me if it works!
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it still fills the whole layer. but I've found another way. anyways, thankies! ^^
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Ahhh finally you post tutorials shinn! You are an amazing photoshop user in my opinion, another one you should put up is how you taught me to shade and color [link]
<3 ily
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