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Tutorial showing 4 ways of preparing a digital line-art for colouring.WARNING: large file. It might take a while before the tutorial shows up on your screen, so please, be patient.
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I am sure this is very obvious to most people out there, but many still seem to get their paint buckets, magic wands or erasers out when colouring line-arts! This tutorial shows the process of making any line-art appear on a transparent layer, which will allow you to add colour without ruining the lines.
The steps shown were all done in Photoshop CS2, but I'm sure at least one of the techniques will work in other programs such as GIMP or Painter as long as you make a few changes. Please feel free to ask if you have any queries about any of the techniques or steps.
You are not authorised to redistribute this tutorial or the original image without my written permission, or claim as your own. Please respect my wishes.
- Tutorial and Line-art © Malin Träisk
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Comments: 156
Thank you very much for providing this useful tutorial!! 
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Great tutorial this was very helpful to me. Thank-you so much for sharing. 
Hayley
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I just had a minor (ok really not so minor) complete and utter happy, squee'ing of joy, flipping out, holy shit, omg moment from the second set and list. Turning my art into a brush!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!! *flails around happily* HOLY SHIT! So excited.
THank you so much for sharing this knowledge.
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Thank you so much for this! 
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Du kan svenska eller hur?
Så skriver på svenska så fattar jag bättre,när jag ska färglägga hästen,så kmr det änndå massa färg utanför linearten 
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Jag vet inte riktigt hur du menar, men det bästa sättet är att färglägga med en vanlig brush på ett lager under linearten, och sen bara gå runt med en eraser och ta bort den färg som hamnat utanför linjerna.
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If you check the comments below, ~Sassykatt1 has checked the compatability/names for GIMP for all the 4 different ways
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Thank you so much for this tutorial, this helped me so much!
For months now I've been struggling with how to color in a lineart that had a white, or any kind of background (I use gimp). But now after reading this tutorial, I can now color the lineart nicely without ruining anything. Thank you so much again! :3
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That's great, I'm so happy it was useful to you
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i cant figure out how to make a layer below the original...
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The new layer will appear above the layer that you are currently on, so if you highlight the layer that's on the top of the layer stack and click to add a new, this will be on top. You can then drag the newly created layer to wherever you want in the layer panel
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like how do i make one a background with or without a art line
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Whenever you create a new layer it's automatically transparent by default
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I feel dumb. I had NO idea how to do any of theses! But! Wow!! This helps SOOO much!! Thank you Thank you!!! <3
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I'm so glad it helped you 
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Hehe yes. That is so True!! XD
Ooh! That's great!! Always good to learn new things! Thanks again for it!!
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where did you get the line art?? I keep looking EVERYWHERE but I can`t find any
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It's one of my own that I haven't submitted yet
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Awesome tutorial
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Great, I'm glad to hear that
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