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# 1 16-09-2003 , 09:09 PM

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I know this isn't the greatest place to ask, what with it being a Maya community and all, but does anyone know how to use photoshop to paint color into a 2d ink drawing in such a way that the color stays behind the black lines? in other words, does anyone know how to paint in such a way that the color is behind the ink yet in front of the white part of the paper? can it be done with layers? can it be done at all? thanks a lot.

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# 2 16-09-2003 , 09:11 PM

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i do so if you give me half hour i'll put you a tutorial together, what version do you have?

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# 3 16-09-2003 , 09:20 PM

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what type of drawing is it. do you mean like this?

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# 4 16-09-2003 , 09:30 PM

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Convert it to CMYK, Ctrl+click the Black channel, Ctrl+Shift+I to invert your selection. Make a new layer. Fill with Black.

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# 5 16-09-2003 , 09:38 PM

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do you still want that step by step or did mike give you all you needed?

btw what do you think of the drawing, as i'm a complete noobie at drawing and have only started in the past month or 2. It's not an origonal character but i drew it by hand then used photoshop to clean it up and color it.

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# 6 16-09-2003 , 10:41 PM

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very easy...

with your ink line on one layer put it to multiply...create a new layer under the multiply/ink line layer and paint in whatever colour you like

if that makes no sence ill throw togerther a small PS file to show you

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# 7 16-09-2003 , 10:42 PM

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Thanks so much user added image

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# 8 16-09-2003 , 10:51 PM

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Yeah, that works. lol My method is to literally have the black by itself on a layer. user added image

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# 9 16-09-2003 , 11:03 PM

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O, ckyuk, forgot to read te rest of your post! sorry! it's really good, especially for a newbie. the one suggestion I would make would be to make her skin's highlights a lighter skin tone rather than white- it looks funny. other rhan that, very good!

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