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Coloring Walkthrough

Okay

Welcome to da Colormastah's "Tutorial of Coloring-ificness Type of Situation"

First off, this is kind of a second version to my last tutorial so definately expect this one to be a tad bettah ;)
I'm also gonna delve into some stuff i've not covered before so here we go!

First step is getting some line art. There are some people out there who like to color over pencils instead of inks and then there are those pieces that are so good that they havent made it to the inking stage yet.
I know a lot of artists who do their drawings/sketches with blue line so im gonna give ya a quick run down on how to "ink" them blue lines with a piece of art I've drawn mahself ;)

To convert a blue line [or any other color of line work you come across] to black just follow these simple steps:

1. go to Image>Mode>Greyscale

This should automatically turn the pic grey or if you're lucky black. But what if it just aint black enuff?

Simple fixing is all it is

I usually go up to Image>Adjust>Auto Levels

This should blacken the lines up a good bit. If it still aint black enough i usually go to Image>Adjust>Levels and manually mess with it until it gets nice and dark

One thing to be careful about is that when you mess with the black and white levels, it can pixelate the pic a tad so alls i do to fix it is go to Filter>Blur>Guassian Blur with it set somewhere around a .3 or .4 blurr

This should fix things up all for ya and you have some nice clean, "inked" line art to start coloring

-=Blue Lines

-= After Conversion

 

Continue on to Part 2