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Color Holds

Here’s how I color line art. There are probably lots of ways, but this is how I do it.

First, I should say that I almost always work in RGB color mode and almost none of the lines I work with have been bitmapped (meaning each pixel isn’t either 100% black or 100% white).

For example, here’s a cover Tom Fowler drew for my Image series Lake of Fire.

 Tom works traditionally, with brush and ink on paper, so his lines have a lot of variation from black to grey.

You’d never be able to select just the line work by using the wand tool, but that’s no problem. Just go to your Channels palette*, hold down the Command button and click on the top RGB channel. That’ll load it as a selection and you’ll see all the marching ants parading around the line art.

* (If you’re doing this after you’ve already done some coloring, just turn off the visibility of all layers but the line art layer before opening your channels)

For whatever reason, this loads the negative space not the line art itself, so just Select>Inverse and you’re good.

Now switch back to your Layers Palette and create a new layer:

Now just Add Layer Mask and that’s all she wrote.

It should look like this now:

Just click on that layer (IMPORTANT: click on the checkerboard thumbnail to the left of the link symbol, not the negative art thumbnail to the right of it) and you’ll be able to color away and all of your work will be contained to just the line art. Like so:

Which I guess doesn’t make sense unless you see the colored lines in context of the finished piece:

And that’s it, really. I worked this out about a decade ago, so there’s probably like one button that does this now, but my way only takes literally ten seconds and works great so I don’t really care. ;) If you have questions, fire away in the notes or whatever and I’ll try to answer in edits (it’s been a couple years since I fired up the old Tumblr machine but I think I can edit posts, right?)

K, bye.

Really valuable thread. 

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