Using photohop 7

[Jedi Gemstone]

Hey guys, I was looking around on Elfwood and people were saying that they used photo shop for they're anime pictures and they would outline it and colour it.
Does anyone know how I would do this?
I've looked but cant find the right tutorial any help please?

[DragonSon]

Can you be more specific? Like outline just certain parts of the picture and color it, then move on to another spot? If it's along those lines, I can most likely help you out with it. Even if it isn't, I can probably help you.

[Jedi Gemstone]

Right I'll get some examples of what I mean............
linky (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/e/m/emh/elemental_spirits_copy.jpg.html)
In the picture above the girl says she outlined the picture and coloured it so the final version looked like this-

clicky (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/e/m/emh/elemental_spirits_colored_copy.jpg.html)
Does anyone know how to do that with drawings?

[DragonSon]

I'll get to work on trying that as soon as possible Jedi, then I'll let you know what I came up with, sound good?

[Nat_roy]

Please, please, PLEASE post your info here, I have wanted to know how to do this for ages. I love this kind of art; taking your drawings and coloring them so. But I cant really do :(.

[iomegajaz]

If there's more to it than setting your Airbrush to Darken, then I'm all ears, too.

[lavaboy]

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/colorps/pcolorps.html

Try searching for more tutorials.


One other cool one,
http://www.abweb.us/tutorial001.html

[Jedi Gemstone]

I finally did get a tutorial but someone (ie Mr 75mhz) set photo shop to black and white only so I thought the program had broke coz it woudlnt let me use colour so I ended up spending the whole week end doing the bloomin thing in paint and once it was finished was I told that saving in jpg loses quality and that I could of done it in photo shop all along lol the finished version is on my site. clicky (http://www.jedi-gemstone.tk)
just go into the art bit and its there if you want to see it.
Thanks for your help everyone I will get phot shop sorted and try it in there.

[lavaboy]

sweet.it came out great.

[Roughneck Range]

Try and select the line with the pixle choose that the one where looks like a stick
once you have selected the partcule line you want
then go to where says line fill that should do it for you if not get back to me

[graigsmith]

ok.. all you need to do is...

1. open the image in photoshop.
2. create a blank layer above the black and white drawing.
3. set the top layer to MULTIPLY
4. color on the top layer, the drawing will show right through, but the white parts will get colored. :)

more info about multiply.. in the layers pallet.. theres a pulldown menu with normal as the first option

it opens up and displays normal, disolve, multiply and other cool filters that you can filter your layers through.

[Namelessv1]

Originally posted by graigsmith
ok.. all you need to do is...

1. open the image in photoshop.
2. create a blank layer above the black and white drawing.
3. set the top layer to MULTIPLY
4. color on the top layer, the drawing will show right through, but the white parts will get colored. :)

more info about multiply.. in the layers pallet.. theres a pulldown menu with normal as the first option

it opens up and displays normal, disolve, multiply and other cool filters that you can filter your layers through.

That plus a little touchup on the highlights with a soft brush on the airbursh ought to do it.

[Roughneck Range]

i Hope you guys have good xmas and thanks for the advise
hope we can keep this com going if that ok with you guys anyway have a good one from south africa bye :igor:

[dlinkwit27]

this place is decent

http://www.artbyfeng.com/

i cant find the site i really want though. here is a eh one
http://www.photoshoptoday.com/Tutorials2003/June/PSCartoon/default.asp

[mors3]

easiest way of the top of me head is to use the 'select-color range' and select the white, stick a little bit of fuzziness so that the only bit that isn't selected is the black lines, then 'invert'.

this will leave you with just the black lines selected so copy paste to a new layer, and as a final fine touch, set the black lines to multiply to stop all the white from displaying.

create a new layer UNDER the black lines layer, and color that layer.

[dorian]

1) First make sure your image is really black and white. Hit [ ctrl + shift + u ] to desaturate it.

2) Go to your Channels palette (tab next to the Layers in the layers panel)

3) [ ctrl + left-click ] on the top channel layer; the one that says RGB. That will select all the "content" of your layer - but - in the sense of light (=colour presence. We're working in rgb, remember). Meaning transparency / alpha channels will be preserved in your selection - CRUCIAL!

4) Go back to Layers now and create a new layer (on top of everything). Invert your selection: [ ctrl + shift + i ] and fill your selection in new layer with desired colour.

5) Now you can delete or hide the original drawing. Simply create new layers underneath the top one and paint / draw / airbrush / go mad as much as you want... You'll probably need a background layer too ...

...merry xmas!
hope this makes sense... otherwise - you can pm me if you have any problems:)

I should really make a proper tutorial about this...

[Futile]

This is an overall tutorial to draw anime with photoshop.

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161020&page=7

[ruud]

the best inkign and coloring tutorials i know are here:
http://www.steeldolphin.com/tutorials_photoshop.php

i am pretty sure there on of the best on the web

[Cleanup]

I do what graigsmith suggested. It's the easiest way. Anything monotonous will stay, and conform to the colours you put underneath. Here's a quick example. Drawn with black ink pen, and coloured with graigsmith's suggestion.

Note: Artpiece isn't racist, just stereotypical. Don't hurt me.

copy and paste: www15.brinkster.com/cleanupinaisle3/americasmall.PNG

[graigsmith]

another cool filter in photoshop is extract. its like the 2rd option in the filters menu.

you can take a black and white drawing and highlight the drawing (it helps to turn up the brush size some.)

then click force foreground and select the color black.. then it will get rid of anything thats white, then you have a transparent drawing perfectly lifted. and if you have too much gray on the edges of your drawing you can hit ctrl+u and turn the lightness down.

extract is also good for pulling an image off of a bakground. make sure force foreground is unchecked, and use a smaller highlighter. highlight around what you want to cut out. you dont have to do it perfectly, the good thing about extract is that it does a good job at guessing. if you have a white circle with antialiasing on a black background. and you roughly highlight the white circle and use the fill tool. when it cuts it out, it will save the antialiasing as partially transparent. that way you can stick that white circle on any color, and you wont get any black bits.

takes a bit of practice to get used to, but its a great filter.