Tutorial for coloring anime in Photoshop *request by Puppet*

[Kamirura]

Oki I made a tutorial for some coloring in photoshop requested by Puppet *points at Puppet* Well here we go^^

First as I told you, you should make an ink copy of that painting.
Then scan it and it will look something like this except from that
you didn't draw a fairy^.^


I recomend that you scan the ink pic in black and white that will make
the lines even better^.^ If you do so you will have a weird format so
you have to change it to RGB


When that is done select the whole pictures with the marquee tool and
choose copy.


Then paste the it and you will have two layers now


Then choose the background layer and marquee the whole pic again with
the marquee tool and hit delete. The background will now be white and empty.


Then choose the other layer that you pasted in and go to channels and
press the button that I point to on the pic. It will marquee alot of the pic.
Then hit delete.


Now when you have done that go to the layer again and be sure the first
layer is marked and not the background. Unmark the pic and push the
transparent button that I show. Then choose a big brush and paint all
over the pic. This tranparent button will make it so you only paint in the
lines and get dark and nice outlines^.^


ok soon finished. You now got nice and clean outlines ready to be colored.
But we don't wanna color over the lines so we make a new layer for the
colors. Places it under the line layer. This will make able to color without
coloring the lines.
A tip make a new layer for different colors not as I did with two color in
the same layer.


awww... I guess you didn't even get half of that or maybe you already knew it^^
Well ask ask if you don't get a bit of it^^
@_@

[Tasuki]

Ah thats great Kami! Nice example picture! Its always good to see things right at hand.

[Kamirura]

hehe well I tried my best^^
I used adobe photoshop 7.0 if anyone wanna know.
This is how the pic looked in the end....well this is an old pic of mine^^

[DistMan]

MM good FAQ you made there Kamirura ;)


Anyway, I use another faq that describes more indept how you do. It's 23 pages long and describes the different steps, gives valuable hints, kidna professional. I've used this FAQ when i've colorized my own graphics.


It's approx. 1meg large file

http://www.server41.com/material/other/pscolor.pdf