How to color line art

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Dusko_Savatovic
Sep 4, 2006
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I need to color black and white line art.
To do this I need functionality that is available in MSPaint on any Windows machine, but I cannot find it in Photoshop.
When I use paint bucket in MSPaint it will only apply color to the area that is bordered by another color. In Photoshop, I don’t know how to quickly select only a partial area of white color, if I use magic wand, it will select the whole picture. So far I’ve been using magnetic lasso tool, but it’s somewhat tedious job.

TIA

Dush

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Ed_Hannigan
Sep 4, 2006
There are tutorials on the web on how to do this but one thing you do NOT want to do is color on the same layer as the line art. Color on a layer beneath the line art and set the line to Multiply, as a start.
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Cybernetic Nomad
Sep 4, 2006
if I use magic wand, it will select the whole picture.

I’d check the options bar for tolerance
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Kingdom
Sep 4, 2006
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I need to color black and white line art.
To do this I need functionality that is available in MSPaint on any Windows machine, but I cannot find it in Photoshop.
When I use paint bucket in MSPaint it will only apply color to the area that is bordered by another color. In Photoshop, I don’t know how to quickly select only a partial area of white color, if I use magic wand, it will select the whole picture. So far I’ve been using magnetic lasso tool, but it’s somewhat tedious job.

TIA

Dush

use ms paint if that works for you, use it


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JohnSpirko
Sep 4, 2006
What file image format do you ‘have’ to work with? What version of Windows/MSPaint are you using?

The image in Photoshop may not have the colour depth for some functions.

Note that the original MSP files are black and white only per this: <http://www.fileformat.info/format/mspaint/>
JS
John_Slate
Sep 4, 2006
If your line art graphic has many gaps through which the magic wand or paint bucket "bleeds", you should make a copy of it and draw in the gaps to fill them, thereby making functional areas to fill. Then, when you are done filling, you can trash the line art copy and examine your color layer in the gaps so see if they are satisfactory
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barry_gray
Sep 4, 2006
In the top tool bar for the wand and bucket check "contiguous"
EH
Ed_Hannigan
Sep 4, 2006
I would not use the Magic Wand for this. Better to outline the area you want to fill with the Pen or a Lasso or the Pencil.

And do it on another layer for sanity’s sake. You want the color UNDER the line (overlapping it), not bordered by it.
JJ
John Joslin
Sep 5, 2006
There is a good (10.5 MB) tutorial here:

<http://av.adobe.com/russellbrown/ComicPaintSM.mov>
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Dusko_Savatovic
Sep 6, 2006
Thanks to all for your contribution.
It ‘s been very usefull an educating.

Dush

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