JayJee
February 24th, 2004, 01:30 PM
I just wanted to share a little something i learned to make some pretty impressive paint jobs to your black and white drawings. Im sure alot of people already know how to do this, or may even have a better way, but even still ill share how i have learned to do it myself.
Once you have your scanned black and white drawing opened in photoshop, duplicate the layer, and delete the backround image.
Next you need to get rid of the white, so you only have the black lines. I used "Mac's Remove White" which is a free plug in you can find easily. (took me a whole 5 mins to find off the net and download)
Once you get rid of the white, make a new layer and place it underneath your black line layer.
Now, with the marquee tool, select an area you want to colour by following around the black lines.
Once the area is selected, you can now fill....I like to fill with slight gradients to give a more jazzy look.
Select and fill all of the areas with a base colour.
Now make another layer, this will be for some lighting.
Once you know where the lightsource is coming from on your image, you can determine which areas of your drawing can be darkened and lightened.
Lets say your drawing was of a human face, all filled with the basic colour...
In the newest layer you created, use the marquee tool to select an area where light falls, like the cheek for instance..
Fill with the paintbucket, but this time have the fill as "foreground to transparent". If youd like, have the foreground colour a slightly lighter colour that what the base colour you already filled was.
Now you can do the same thing with the darkened areas.
Now everything is pretty much finished, you can add some details like maybe using the airbrush, or even putting a texture over top as "overlay" to give it some "oomph".
hopefully this helps with the beginners...Im not the best at explaining.
Once you have your scanned black and white drawing opened in photoshop, duplicate the layer, and delete the backround image.
Next you need to get rid of the white, so you only have the black lines. I used "Mac's Remove White" which is a free plug in you can find easily. (took me a whole 5 mins to find off the net and download)
Once you get rid of the white, make a new layer and place it underneath your black line layer.
Now, with the marquee tool, select an area you want to colour by following around the black lines.
Once the area is selected, you can now fill....I like to fill with slight gradients to give a more jazzy look.
Select and fill all of the areas with a base colour.
Now make another layer, this will be for some lighting.
Once you know where the lightsource is coming from on your image, you can determine which areas of your drawing can be darkened and lightened.
Lets say your drawing was of a human face, all filled with the basic colour...
In the newest layer you created, use the marquee tool to select an area where light falls, like the cheek for instance..
Fill with the paintbucket, but this time have the fill as "foreground to transparent". If youd like, have the foreground colour a slightly lighter colour that what the base colour you already filled was.
Now you can do the same thing with the darkened areas.
Now everything is pretty much finished, you can add some details like maybe using the airbrush, or even putting a texture over top as "overlay" to give it some "oomph".
hopefully this helps with the beginners...Im not the best at explaining.