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[ How to color Anime/cell-style in Adobe Photoshop 7 ] Tutorial done by Animetor Lily |
Preparing the Lineart | Creating an Outline layer | Base Color Fill | Shading
Hair Shading | Special Effects // Adding a background
| Step 02: Creating an Outline layer | ||
| All right, so now your
lineart is all cleaned up and ready for coloring. X3 There are two ways
to start coloring; I'm gonna teach you only one technique in this tute,
making an Outline layer.
1) Continue from the previous step, or load up the cleaned version of the lineart I've provided earlier. Your lineart's layers should look something like this:
Now select the Selection Marquee tool from the toolbar and press CTRL+A or right-click on the picture and Select All. A selection border should appear around your image. Now right-click again on the pic and choose Layer via Cut. Your image layers should now look like this:
Depending on the position of your Foreground and Background colors on the toolbar, your Background layer may be a black color. If it is, then fill it with White. Rename Layer 1 to outline.
2) Now go to Channels tab on your layers window, and click on the Load Channel as Selection icon (circled in red above). Your image should now look like the second pic above, with selections inside the outlines.
3) Now go back to the Layers tab. Make sure layer outline is the current layer, and hit DELETE on your keyboard. Notice anything different about the layer? It's now got a checkerboard pattern on it. What you've done is you've used the Load channel as Selection to select all the white areas of the pic and DELETE removes it and leaves only the black areas, hence you get your outline. ^o^ If you uncheck the eye on the Background layer you'll see your outline. Whoo-hoo! Now you don't have to worry about those old childhood problems of going over the outlines when you color..... =P
4) One more step before we move on to the coloring now. ^__^ Click the Preserve Transparency icon on your Layers panel. Again, make sure that the currently selected layer is 'outline'. Now select the Marquee tool, do the 'Select All' thing, and on the main menu Edit > Fill with black color. Then on the main menu, click Image > Mode > RGB color , and choose Don't Flatten at the prompt. What Preserve Transparency does is, it 'locks' the areas with something on it and so if you fill the outline layer with a different color or paint over it, only the outlines are affected.
See...? ^__^ We'll have a use for this later. So for now, keep the outline's color Black.
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