Working with Photoshop on line artwork

1 Painte is a very personalized software, he can simulate the effect of hand-painted strokes, but the picture is not as easy to rest with Photoshop and efficient; let's first introduce a method that is suitable for drawing the image in painter. Such a process can be separated from the line of the manuscript layer, without affecting the color layer.



Figure 01 an open sketch

2 Click the keyboard combination "Ctrl" + "A" all selected screen, and then click the keyboard key combination "Ctrl" + "C" copy (Don't forget Oh!) or make an error) (as shown in Figure 02)



Figure 02 Full Screen selection

3 Click on the keyboard "Q" or click on the mask as shown in Figure 2-19, the mouse position button to enter the mask mode, the entire screen will be the edge of a light red (04).



Figure 03 Mask



Figure 04 Entering Quick Mask mode

4) "What, your picture has not changed?" "Then please proceed to the following steps:

In the tool panel before double-clicking into the quick Mask mode of the button, pop-up window, choose the "seiected Areas" option, according to the changed! (as shown in Figure 2-21). You will then see that the selected area becomes reddish (as shown in Figure 05).



Figure 05 Modifying Mask Options

5 Next click the keyboard key combination "Ctrl" + "V" paste (Remember to press "CTRL" + "C"!). , the line is covered in red (that is, the selected area) (as shown in Figure 06).



Fig. 06 Post-pasted screen

6) then return to standard mode (click the keyboard "Q"), this time the line is surrounded by a dotted line, indicating that the line is selected (as shown in Figure 07)



Fig. 07 Selected screen

7 Create a new layer (as shown in Figure 08)



Figure 08 Creating a new layer

8 Use "Fill" (as shown in Figure 09) on the "Edit" menu



Figure 09 Padding

9 use Black (as shown in Figure 10).

Description: You can also use a different color, that is, the line after processing for the selected color.



Figure 10 Selecting Black

10 Delete The first layer, we can see now only the line layer of the file, the original white to become transparent (as shown in Figure 11).



Figure 11 Removing layers



Figure 12 Line Layer

11 Remember to save as PSD file format.

12 Let's open it in the painter, what do you see on the "Layer" level Panel? There are two layers! By the way, the bottom is the blank canvas layer, and the top layer is your line draft (see Figure 12).



Figure 12 with two layers of line draft

14 This method of processing out of the line, in the painter Open is the time will directly appear two layers, for later color very convenient.