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Published: 2007-08-10 23:24:00 +0000 UTC; Views: 2141; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 45
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I had to do this as a favour for Keish o-o;; she made something for me so I made this for her so she wouldn't have to >_>I know most of you probably know how to do this, but there are still people learning to colour digitally out there, so I hope this helps those of you who have questions!
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This is really helpful but the thing I always have trouble with is how do you colour one big section. What I have been doing is colouring it little by little untill its done what do I use to colour it in all at once and still leave my lines from the line art? Thank you ^^
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Use the polygonal lasso tool to select around the area you want then use the paint bucket tool to fill in that area 
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oh wow that easy thanks yes that does help ^^ thanks
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thank u so much. i have been trying to figure this out forever.
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this is ABSOLUTLEY perfect!! 
i use all traditional media but i've been playing around with photoshop when it comes to font
i wanted to ask, can i sue thes same steps for font?? for example, if the piece i'm applying font to is dark ( lets say it was black, ) and i wanted to add a white border around the font ( adding a border to make it easier to read on such a dark background ) would i be able to use these same steps for the layers??
thank you so much for making this easy to understand tutorial!! i'm so faving it XD and i look forward to your response!!
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What you would have to do in that case, since a text layer isn't like a normal layer, is to "rasterize" it. Once you have your text written out, right click that layer and there should be an option there that says something to the effect of "Rasterize Layer." You're going to click that and then it becomes like any other layer.
If you'd like to add a white border around it from that point, the easiest way is to go to Edit>Stroke. You may have to root around for it, it may be located in a sub-menu. Each photoshop has it in different places for some strange reason. Anyway, you'll go to Stroke and then a menu will pop up with your choices of the pixel width of the outline and the colour. You MUST make sure you're doing this on the rasterized text layer! Otherwise it'll show up somewhere you don't want it.
If this isn't clear enough, please let me know and perhaps I'll make a little miniature tutorial for ya ^^
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Thank you sooo much!! I really needed this tutorial! When I looked at other tutorials it wasn't clear at all, but your's is amazing!!!! Thanks!!
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You're welcome, I'm glad I could help!
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Yes, and you helped a lot!
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Very handy, ma dear, but I must ask... and I do feel silly for it... what does setting the layer to "multiply" actually do? I am very new to PS, you see *frowns at self* Oh yes, shame on me indeed for not getting hold of some sort of art program sooner.
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It lets you colour over the lines as opposed to just...colouring the picture and getting rid of the lines.
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Aaaah, I see. So it's kind of like adding a soft layer of colour over the line without totally losing it?
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Yeah, and when you colour over the lines, they will get a tad bit darker, but they won't disappear. It's like.......putting wax paper over your lines then colouring over it. ^_^
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You know... that would actually be pretty interesting to try doing with markers or watercolour paints.
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o_o indeed it would. I didn't think of that...
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Okay, out of all the tutorials I was going through, there weren't any I saw that made layers this clear and simple to me. I haven't touched photoshop in a while, but now I'm actually working on something pretty big.
Thank you for posting this, even if it's just a basic explanation of the layer system! I'm glad I found it!
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I'm glad that this helps! Thanks
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what program did u use and thank-you u have no idea how long ive needed help with that.
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I use Photoshop Elements 2, but Paint Shop Pro and any other version of Photoshop works the same way ^_^
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paint corel 2 dosent let u so ill have to use elements well thx
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