I know that title doesn't really make much sense, but what I want to do is very specific and I can't imagine that there isn't a way to do it.
I illustrate using ink, sometimes pencil, and when I bring those lines into Photoshop I often recolor them. So far I've only needed to recolor smaller things. The wand tool does not do a nice job of making white transparent for my purposes, and so I've gotten into the habit of defining my images as a brush so that they become nice and transparent and easy to recolor. The grays are transparent, and this is what I want.
I want my whites to be gone, grays to be transparent, the blacks to be rich dark and opaque.
I would continue on defining things as brushes to get this done, only now there are a few bigger projects I need to use this technique on that exceed the pixel limit for brush sizes. Everything online about coloring lines uses some form of the magic wand tool, which is not what I want, because I want the grays to be transparent.
Does anyone know how I can reproduce the "define as brush" effects without actually defining an image as a brush? It seems like if it can be done with the "define as brush" then it should be reproducible with some other settings.
I illustrate using ink, sometimes pencil, and when I bring those lines into Photoshop I often recolor them. So far I've only needed to recolor smaller things. The wand tool does not do a nice job of making white transparent for my purposes, and so I've gotten into the habit of defining my images as a brush so that they become nice and transparent and easy to recolor. The grays are transparent, and this is what I want.
I want my whites to be gone, grays to be transparent, the blacks to be rich dark and opaque.
I would continue on defining things as brushes to get this done, only now there are a few bigger projects I need to use this technique on that exceed the pixel limit for brush sizes. Everything online about coloring lines uses some form of the magic wand tool, which is not what I want, because I want the grays to be transparent.
Does anyone know how I can reproduce the "define as brush" effects without actually defining an image as a brush? It seems like if it can be done with the "define as brush" then it should be reproducible with some other settings.