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Yeah, what they said!
A little under 2 days to get in on this new set of sweet, sweet art books.
Photoshop Tips! Isolating Lineart
Hello! Here is a short tip detailing a technique to put scanned lineart on its own layer in Photoshop. As with most things in Photoshop, there are various ways to do this, but this is just one.
Start off with your lineart! This can be something you’ve scanned, or something you’ve simply drawn onto a white layer and want to move to its own layer so you can color under it. If your lines are pure black and white, you can simply select all the black and copy it to a new layer, but if you’ve got grays in there it’s not so simple.
I am using Photoshop CS6, but this should work in any version that includes the Channels palette. Go to the Channels palette, hold Ctrl (Command on a Mac), and click the thumbnail of the RGB Channel (or CMYK if that’s the color mode you are using).
This selects all the white/gray areas of the image. The lighter a pixel is, the more opaque its selection is; darker areas will be more transparent. However, this is the opposite of what we want, so go to the Select menu and choose “Inverse” (or press Shift + Ctrl + I).
Now we have the black areas selected. Go back to the Layers palette, make a new layer, and fill the selection with black (you can press Alt + Backspace to do this quickly). Now you can replace the original layer or fill it with white or do whatever you want to do with it. Your lineart is on its own layer with no pesky white background to block out your colors.
What’s the advantage to doing it this way rather than duplicating your original layer and setting it to Multiply? For one thing, you can now lock the transparency of your lineart and do color holds (the fancy term for coloring your lineart). I’m sure there are other benefits. Who knows!
Join us next time on Photoshop Tips where I’ll reveal the secret menu option that draws comics for you.
Today was the official Hourly Comics Day! This was my day in comics form.
PREVIOUSLY: Hourly Comics Day 2012
Dinosaur Comics is ten years old today, and to celebrate, SQUISHABLE T-REX HAS A FRIEND NOW. Say hello to Squishable Utahraptor! He’s an adorable, soft, squishy dinosaur who wants to live in your house and help you solve all your problems. So awesome! You probably need one in your life right now.
I’m giving one away, and everyone who reblogs this is entered into the contest! SHIPS WORLDWIDE. I’ll choose a winner randomly in a week!
look how cute he is, click on his face for MORE ADORABLE PICTURES
Happy birthday Dinosaur Comics!
Also, a quick personal note: don’t send me Tumblr messages through the “Fanmail” feature. I turned off my Ask box because I didn’t want any more questions and then people just started asking questions through Fanmail. I can’t turn it off, but I won’t reply. Thanks!
P.S. Tumblr, if you are listening, not being able to shut off the Fanmail “feature” is a terrible idea, please change that
Art Tipz™!
Here is a tip for everyone interested in working in the comics/illustration field: unless you are really, incredibly good at art and your work is hugely in demand, you can’t be a jerk! You will not get repeat clients if you are difficult to work with. Nobody wants to work with someone who is bitter and insulting.
So just be cool!
One of the most bitter asks I’ve ever seen handled in the funniest and coolest way possible.
You are the best, Natasha!!!
Gee, why aren’t you getting these amazing opportunies, Anon? I can’t think of a single reason why people wouldn’t want to work with you
Heyyy maybe you’ve seen that first picture being posted all over facebook? I know I have! I also know that the jokes were originally by Ben Kling, as you can see by following this link! There are also more where they came from! Cute stuff.
Now jokes like “Be Mein” could be pretty coincidental but on the whole I don’t think so! I just wanted to direct you to the original artist, because hey, fight that good proper attribution fight. Facebook is a no mans land of nothing attributed to anyone ever.
Ben is my IRL friend and I hate the internet and I’m gonna smack all you fuckin’ joke-stealing jerks up OK? Also, you tasteless weirdo who re-purposed his jokes, I feel really sorry that you have 0 design sense and couldn’t see that his drawings were wayyyyyy cuter valentines than your crappy photoshops. AARRGHH
If you like Ben’s original cool cute valentines, you can purchase them here!! http://www.redbubble.com/people/benkling/collections/179130-dictator-valentines?product_type=greeting-card <—- yeah!!!
Internet people: stop taking credit for things you didn’t do. Just stop! You gain nothing from it. There’s no shame in not being creative so there’s no need to steal someone else’s work to pretend like you are.
thanks to my bro for HTMLing the pages for meeee
Starting my day of RIGHT with some brand new EMMY COMICSSS! <3
rebloggin for the day crowd
Throw and Catch is the best. This is all the best.
