Next topic will be about different methods of flatting so see ya then!įeel free to comment about your thoughts and if you have questions, just let me know as well.Stone Ocean volume 15 cover. Just be sure to save it as PSD or whatever layered file type you want. Your lineart is nice and ready to be colored. This will select all the whites of the color and then just press delete to remove them. This will select the whites of the layer. There’s a circular icon tab there at the bottom. Go to Channels tab or you can just find it in Window➡Channels. Right click the layer and select Layer from Background Now just revert it back to RGB using the same method ( you have to convert it back to Grayscale first) Click “yes” when prompted and on the next window, choose “50% Threshold” then click OK.
The image have to be in grayscale before converting to bitmap. Now it can be done with Photoshop as well but it has some complex methods than CSP. Then go to Edit➡Convert Brightness to OpacityĪfter that, you’ll have a nice and clean transparent layout to color! Then press ctrl-A to select the entire canvas. I use different methods on Clip Studio and Photoshop which I will be tackling one at a time It won’t be obvious if your scanned drawing is large (300-600 dpi) but it will definitely show on smaller images. This will make your line crisp and way easier to use the downside is it may look a bit pixelly. Aliased (has black and white pixels only) Anti-aliased (has some extra leftover gray pixels) This image should sum up the difference between Aliased and Anti-aliased. You change the color of the lines so on and so forth. Option 2: Remove all the whites so that the black lines are the only thing that remains. The downside to this is you can’t change the line color because that will require you to trace the image. Multiply will disregard the whites of that layer so you can just add color underneath. Option 1: You can just set the lineart layer to “multiply” and proceed to coloring… What we need is black and white lineart for easier selection. Since the image on the left side was not desaturated, unwanted blue pixels that have appeared and we don’t want that.
Now if you skipped the desaturate step, this is what will happen. What does this do: This will remove the unnecessary gray pixels that got there when the image was scanned, leaving you a nice and crisp black and white lineart. Then adjust the toggles until you get a nice black and white lineart like in the image. To do this simply press ctrl+L (on Photoshop). (I’ll be showing you the difference later on) What does this do: it converts all pixels into grays, white and black so that when you do level adjustments, it won’t get wonky. Now, toggle the saturation all the way to the leftmost side. You can also use ctrl+u (on either software) to open this window. Another method is open up Hue and Saturation.
However, if you drew the lineart traditionally or only have the flattened image of the lineart. Now if you’re doing lineart digitally and have the layered file, that’s cool and all and you can skip this.
I was gonna discuss flatting supposedly but I realized that before I do that, I should discuss how to prepare your scanned lineart for flatting and coloring.