Plant's Tutorials! Preparing scan-pics to work with layers

[Zan]

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Ask and you shall receive. I'll make a quick small tutorial to work with creating layers and how to prepare scanned pictures to work with layers.

Serenade I'll work on the tutorial you requested ASAP.

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TUTORIAL - Preparing a flat scanned image to work with layers on photoshop.

I'm working with a cheaper then cheap quick 5 mins doodle in photoshop that I saved as jpg.



Alright, begin by duplicating your flat background layer, it should be named that way "Background", once duplicated hide the background by clicking the eye icon. Then move to 'channels' on top of your layer menu and select the little dotted circle at the botom of your menu. This will create a selection around all the dark lines of your sketch, in this case our outline.



Now that we have selected the areas around the outline press delete to erase all the white filling around the outline. As you can see in the picture below parts of our outline seems to have been erased as well. Fear not they're still there. Keep your selection running and now move to the upper menu called 'Selection' and choose 'Invert', this will change our selection to wrap around our outline instead of what was outside of it.



Now, pick your brush tool and select a large size, with our selection still running brush your tool all along the selection, this will recover the thickness of our original outline. Unselect your outline and feel free to edit the contrast and brightness till it is of your full linking.



Once your outline is finally to your liking, lock it so you won't accidentally modify it and create a new layer underneath and begin to apply color. Is up to each person's tastes how many colors to work with in each layer.



Finally you should clean up the excess of color of your picture, which I didn't do because I was lazy as the coloring can confirm. XD



Hope this mini tutorial was of any help.
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Ask and you shall receive. I'll make a quick small tutorial to work with creating layers and how to prepare scanned pictures to work with layers.

Serenade I'll work on the tutorial you requested ASAP.

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TUTORIAL - Preparing a flat scanned image to work with layers on photoshop.

I'm working with a cheaper then cheap quick 5 mins doodle in photoshop that I saved as jpg.



Alright, begin by duplicating your flat background layer, it should be named that way "Background", once duplicated hide the background by clicking the eye icon. Then move to 'channels' on top of your layer menu and select the little dotted circle at the botom of your menu. This will create a selection around all the dark lines of your sketch, in this case our outline.



Now that we have selected the areas around the outline press delete to erase all the white filling around the outline. As you can see in the picture below parts of our outline seems to have been erased as well. Fear not they're still there. Keep your selection running and now move to the upper menu called 'Selection' and choose 'Invert', this will change our selection to wrap around our outline instead of what was outside of it.



Now, pick your brush tool and select a large size, with our selection still running brush your tool all along the selection, this will recover the thickness of our original outline. Unselect your outline and feel free to edit the contrast and brightness till it is of your full linking.



Once your outline is finally to your liking, lock it so you won't accidentally modify it and create a new layer underneath and begin to apply color. Is up to each person's tastes how many colors to work with in each layer.



Finally you should clean up the excess of color of your picture, which I didn't do because I was lazy as the coloring can confirm. XD



Hope this mini tutorial was of any help.
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That's almost the same way I use Photoshop 7 :D . The trick is on the layers...

How about a tutorial about non-metalic objects (skin, cloth, water, fire, etc.)? I could always use/learn more tricks when it comes to skins :] ...
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Ne, Plant-san, I have a question. Why is it bad to detail a picture in black before inking?
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[Zan]

I believe it's a waste of time, since you can just fill in/add the details while you're inking it. It's something I've always been doing, also.

EDIT: Oh, I read that wrong. ._.

It's bad because you wouldn't be able to see what you're inking clearly without having to keep making the layer invisible constantly.

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