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How to color your pencil sketches in photoshop
Meh i'm bored so don't complain:angry:
Step 1 - Scan
Scan your pencil sketch onto your computer. I'm gonna use my campbells tomato juice thing as an example. Remove any bits that shouldn't be there with the paintbrush tool or whatever you want.
Step 2 - Extract
This is the tricky part... one of them anyway. Once you have done it though, it will becoume easier every time.
Duplicate your background layer by right clicking it and selecting duplicate. Now create a new layer underneath that duplicate. Delete your original background layer and you will have 2 layers. Fill the blank one on the bottom in black. This is what your layer palette should look like.
Right, now go to your top layer. Go to "Select > Color Range". This is where you need to get the right balance.
On your main image, click a white part of the sketch and the color range box should look something like this:
Now highlight the "invert" box and it will look like this:
Hooray! Now you need to get the right amount of fuzziness. Basicly, you want to keep detail, whilst not making the black bits too black. This is a bit strange in my pencil sketch because i shaded parts too heavily, but you get the idea.
So get a fuzziness that you like and click ok. You should now see your image all selected. If you got it wrong, you'll find out now...
don't deselect, go to the black layer on the bottom and press crtl+c then go to the top layer and press ctrl+v You should now have an extra layer that contains an all black version of your pencil sketch. To see it properly, you should create a new layer underneath it and fill it in completely white. now your image may look something like this:
If its too thick, go back to the color range selection stage and adjust it accordingly.
Great, now we have a layer with no halos or anythign gay that will make it look silly when we pain underneath.
Step 3 - Paint!
This is pretty straight forward. Just use whatever tools you want to paint color on new layers underneath your sketch. If you are like me and have done shading already, then thats fine, but for shding, i would use the dodge and burn tools to add highlights and shadows respectively.
Here is what i came up with.
Well that was my first ever tutorial. Did it suck? i think so.
Meh i'm bored so don't complain:angry:
Step 1 - Scan
Scan your pencil sketch onto your computer. I'm gonna use my campbells tomato juice thing as an example. Remove any bits that shouldn't be there with the paintbrush tool or whatever you want.
Step 2 - Extract
This is the tricky part... one of them anyway. Once you have done it though, it will becoume easier every time.
Duplicate your background layer by right clicking it and selecting duplicate. Now create a new layer underneath that duplicate. Delete your original background layer and you will have 2 layers. Fill the blank one on the bottom in black. This is what your layer palette should look like.
Right, now go to your top layer. Go to "Select > Color Range". This is where you need to get the right balance.
On your main image, click a white part of the sketch and the color range box should look something like this:
Now highlight the "invert" box and it will look like this:
Hooray! Now you need to get the right amount of fuzziness. Basicly, you want to keep detail, whilst not making the black bits too black. This is a bit strange in my pencil sketch because i shaded parts too heavily, but you get the idea.
So get a fuzziness that you like and click ok. You should now see your image all selected. If you got it wrong, you'll find out now...
don't deselect, go to the black layer on the bottom and press crtl+c then go to the top layer and press ctrl+v You should now have an extra layer that contains an all black version of your pencil sketch. To see it properly, you should create a new layer underneath it and fill it in completely white. now your image may look something like this:
If its too thick, go back to the color range selection stage and adjust it accordingly.
Great, now we have a layer with no halos or anythign gay that will make it look silly when we pain underneath.
Step 3 - Paint!
This is pretty straight forward. Just use whatever tools you want to paint color on new layers underneath your sketch. If you are like me and have done shading already, then thats fine, but for shding, i would use the dodge and burn tools to add highlights and shadows respectively.
Here is what i came up with.
Well that was my first ever tutorial. Did it suck? i think so.
Keep posting!
