Color a pencil drawing

[Troy McClure]

mumble... I forgot to say what is my problem....
I want to color it but I want to keep the original draw as contour...

[Totoro]

Hi Troy

Set your drawing layer to "multiply" in the Blending Options (next to "Opacity") on the Layers Palette. This will allow only the dark areas of your sketch to show over the color later on.

Make new layer(s) under the drawing layer. This is where you will be painting all of your color under the sketch.

[dwin]

I think you can use a path and make it into a selection and you stroke it with black, but it'll take time.

[Troy McClure]

I color it..:bounce: I don't know if it's finished, surely can be improved!:shrug:
http://mio.discoremoto.virgilio.it/filemanager/vedi.do?key=%2Ftroy3d%2FSpada23.2.col.jpg
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Thanks you Totoro, your advice really improved the final result...
I hope my friend will be happy...

Thank you dwin too, but your metod take very loooong time

[JhonnyGoo]

Sorry,I think I'm a bit too late on this thread,but another opertunity is to play around with the gradation curves (i don't know if it's the correct name in english).Just hold down ctrl + m.

[Troy McClure]

Thanks, Jhonny but I know that metod I use it on ink-pen drawing... but this image is very dirty, I have tried a lot but don't work....

This is a test for my pic host... I hope it work this time...

http://img84.exs.cx/img84/6643/Spada232col.jpg

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