This is a photoshop tutorial where I show how to clean lineart done in a traditional way. Its the usual process we do at time to design mascots for websites from sosfactory.
Please click in the image to see it
Notice this tutorial is just to clean lineart, if you want to do digital drawing with photoshop, from scratch, you should visit this post about vectorial drawing with Photshop (peding of translation)
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19 June 2007 at 3:25 AM
nice, its cool
18 November 2007 at 11:30 AM
very nice tutorial. I surely learn such stuff! Love it!
15 April 2008 at 12:34 AM
This is great stuff, I have been drawing for a while, basically self taught. Wish I had this kind of instruction in College.
Could you look at my site and give me your critique.
Thanks
30 April 2008 at 2:14 AM
Usefull tut…Thx a lot
3 August 2008 at 6:21 AM
i cant download this file
please give direct link for me tnx
3 August 2008 at 8:41 AM
Sorry, not direct link.
4 October 2008 at 11:39 AM
Hi I was just doing the http://www.sosnewbie.com/videotutorials/digitalinking/1cleaninglineart.html from your site and i can’t download the extractlines
Can i download it from other page?
4 October 2008 at 11:49 AM
never mind i found it sorry..
16 December 2008 at 2:25 AM
you make it look very easy!
1 November 2009 at 5:44 AM
Great resouce page and interesting tips. The video tutorials are easy to understand.
16 January 2010 at 3:02 PM
I have a question.
After merge the 4 layers, you apply some regulation on Hue/Saturation… What do you do?
I download the file but I can’t understand the regulation that you apply…
I want learn the method, not use the Action file !
Bye
carlo
16 January 2010 at 3:10 PM
Hi Carlo, when you extract the lineart you get some white pixels around the lineart, I put lightning to 0 and become completely black. Same for the background but the opposite, so it´s completely white.
Take a look here: http://www.sosfactory.com/blog/how-to/detailed-photoshop-coloring-tutorial/
Cheers.
16 January 2010 at 3:59 PM
Yes my problem is just that.
In my last job to isolate the lineart I used the technique of the channels.
I had the black line on a transparent background but I could not delete that “veil” of light pixels due to scanning of the sheet of paper!
From next time I will use this technique, which also better preserves the edges of the lines.
But when I have more time and I want to make a better job pass to digital inking with pen tool.
16 January 2010 at 4:01 PM
Also use the levels and layers in multiply mode if the lineart is too light and overlay mode later to sharpen it. Then Ctrl+U and set lightning to 0 and your lines will be stronger.
16 January 2010 at 4:38 PM
I’M CRAZY… I’M WRITING IN ITALIAN PERDON! DELETE PREVIOUS COMMENT!
I’m analyzing the action which I downloaded.
The first step is LOAD SELECTION ….
I try to use this feature in Photoshop but I do not get the same result I get by applying the action to the same file (by browsing the history of the action)
What is Load Selection?
I get only a big rectangular selection …
16 January 2010 at 4:46 PM
Hi Carlo, please take a look to this link: http://www.sosfactory.com/blog/how-to/detailed-photoshop-coloring-tutorial/
There is the action explained step by step.