Hey all, I’ve decided that I should try drawing on paper, scan it, and then color on painter (drawing and sketching on painter gets under my skin for some reason). Anyway, as I am interested in illustration and making comics, I would like to know how to lift the lines on the scanned image to a new layer that is not the canvas so as to preserve them. I know people do this and someone did this for me when i started using the program about a year and a half ago; I just really don’t know how they did it.
Coloring a scanned drawing?
tomt
#2
Three key combinations will do it. Take the scanned image, Ctrl A (Select the Canvas); Ctrl C (Copy); Ctrl V (Paste). The copied canvas is a new seperate layer. Change the layer attributes from Default to Gel and the black lines will stand out and the whites will be transparent.
To do this really effectively, you’ll need to make sure you have a very high contrast scan, You can help this along by adjusting contrast and brightness or even using Posterize in the Effects menu setting it up with just two colors, Black and White. I’m sure you’ll get some other methods too. This is just the one I use.
Miguimau
#3
I have done it many times for illustrations, storyboards… I have used lots of different methods . Ans Tomt´s is a good one.
Sometimes I ink in Painter my pencil scanned drawings as well , which I use it as a traceable rough; sometimes I do everything using the Wacom, even the sketches. But if you want to scan the previously inked drawings , you can autoselect the scanned line and paste it in a separate layer too.
Color can be placed in an underlying layer (I never use the paint bucket, sorry) . My favourites for a solid colouring are liquid ink, tinting, gouache or acrylics. But there are so many techniques as you can imagine.
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