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Need help coloring a scanned image.


dhamon

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I have an image that I scanned, and I want to color it, but it's a sketch, so just paint-bucketing it won't cut it. I wase is either a way to color it so it doesn't leave white spots all over, and it doesn't fill the entire image (changing tolerance doesn't help), or a way for photoshop to trace the sketched lines with plain black ones. The picture is attached.
 
Thank you.

That's what I needed, thanks. And sorry I double-posted the topic. I was using Safari, and it was being ugly, so I had to switch to IE. Somewhere in there I must have thought that the first post didn't work.
 
Here's a technique I've just seen Burt Monroy do on TechTv
1. Use levels command to darken image.
(Image>Adjustments>Levels)
2. Duplicate the background to a seperate layer.
3. Set your new layer to the MULTIPLY mode.
4. Create a new layer BETWEEN the Multiply and original layer for each color you want.
5. In each layer, select paint brush in whatever color you want.
6. (Optional) Use burn & dodge for shadows and Hilites.
7. Have Fun!!! :perfect:
 
Ijiljana: Oops, I just went to the link you sent, and it's a similar technique. :\
 
dhamon,
Heres a way of coloring the just the lines.
Use image adjust and contrast to darken the lines and whiten the whites. Select the majic wand tool - select similar - select inverse -
command J . This frees your lines from Bkgnd layer. Clean up any unwanted stuff that the Majic wand leaves behind - eliminate it..

Command Click on your line liberated layer. Keep selection going while you choose a foreground color and open layer 3. On layer 3 go option delete to bring new color in. You can then turn off your 2 underlying layers. This has worked for me countless times plus you can option delete a gradient in,
Ferlin :B
 

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