comics colouring?

Question

do you know how to put colours like in comics in photoshop? if so can u explain or add a link to a tutorial plz !!

Answer 1

You should be able to go to the Help section within Photoshop and it will tell you.

Answer 2

There are many different techniques. This is what I do:

1) Scan the original artwork at high resolution twice as big as I want the final piece to be and as lines, on the scanner settings.

2) Clean the line work

3) Convert it to grayscale in order to get a transparent layer

4) Erase the white background and all I'm left with is the line work on a transparent background (once I have the transparent layer, I can scale the image down to the final size in order to work faster but is the image is not that big I leave it to last)

5) I duplicate the layers. I Lock the top layer so that I don't ruin the line work by mistake and on the bottom layer I start filling in color areas with the bucket.

6) Create additional layers for shadows, details and other effects, all of them should go under the line work layer.

Here is another way to do it:
http://www.sofos.com/adi/ click on the fourth link, 'tutorials'

Good luck

Answer 3

Here's a couple of tutorials.....

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorial/Color-a-Batman/5034
http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart1.html
http://www.steeldolphin-forums.com/htmltuts/digital_colorpart2.html