color inside the lines?

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Jun 8, 2004
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I have a scanned black & white drawing where I want to paint color in the white parts without painting over the black lines. What’s the easiest way to do this?

(The latest Macworld had an article about a similar idea, except they showed how to paint over the black lines & leave the white space intact. I tried skipping the step where they inverted the selection created by loading the gray channel as a selection but that didn’t seem to work.)

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nomail
Jun 8, 2004
JMR wrote:

I have a scanned black & white drawing where I want to paint color in the white parts without painting over the black lines. What’s the easiest way to do this?

Set your brush mode to "Darken" and start painting.


Johan W. Elzenga johan<<at>>johanfoto.nl Editor / Photographer http://www.johanfoto.nl/
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Mike Russell
Jun 8, 2004
JMR wrote:
I have a scanned black & white drawing where I want to paint color in the white parts without painting over the black lines. What’s the easiest way to do this?

(The latest Macworld had an article about a similar idea, except they showed how to paint over the black lines & leave the white space intact. I tried skipping the step where they inverted the selection created by loading the gray channel as a selection but that didn’t seem to work.)

Use the paint bucket , and play with the tolerance setting a bit to get rid of the white fringes.

To preserve the original lines more accurately, dup the line art to a new layer first, and set it to darken mode, then click on on the original layer before using the paint bucket.


Mike Russell
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