What nightmare! I have spent the past two weeks trying to figure out photoshop (well…I’m using Gimp because I’m poor) but I finally figured it out using a book my parents gave me for christmas and a tutorial on Photoshop I found online.
Alright so anyone else who has been racking their poor brains trying to find a way to efficiently and tidily colour in a drawing in photoshop, the key is in ‘Channels’. Turns out, all colour images are in a color environment but they have RGB channels. The red channel is stronger or weaker by having a black and white channel, the more white there is, the more red there is. Same for green and blue. So essentially a simple white dot on a black background can be created by drawing a white dot on the red, green and blue channels. If you wanted just a purple-y dot, you’d have a white dot on just the red and blue channels.
Clever! Why the heck is this not explained when you install the program?! Seems pretty essential.
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Ok so where does colouring in come to this? Well, turns out, you colour inside the lines by using the selection tool. but instead of doing this arduously and slowly, you make the selection, choose ’selection to channel’ and create and new invisible channel where your line-art is white lines on a black background. This way, you can re-select your line art later on, delete it, and replace said lines with lovely shades of colour which make your drawings semi-lineless.
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Here’s my first attempt at drawing taking advantage of channels and layers and stuff.
It’s only a work in progress, but you can see where it helps to be able to cleanly select your line-art for re-colouring. I’ll upload the finished pic when its done!
-Christopher
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