JadedKitsune
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Hi, I've been using Photoshop 7 for a few years now and one problem that has been plaguing me off and on is whenever I go to color lineart I almost always get this little line of pixels, maybe 2-4 pixels wide between the color section and the line art. I've attached a picture to show what I mean. Please forgive me, I know this is a bit lengthy, but I want to detail what I do so that if I'm making a mistake hopefully someone will catch it. When I scan lineart, I scan it at 600dpi in color mode (I've tried grayscale and black and white also but it seems to make no difference). Once I import it into PS, I go to image size and set the dimensions to percent instead of pixels. I then resize the image to 200%. Next, I create a transparent layer above the background and proceed to use the pencil tool to trace the background onto the transparent layer. This shouldn't cause any problems since its using black pixels only, but nonetheless once all is said and done the stray pixel lines are still there.
After the lineart is scanned I'll add a white fill layer underneath the lineart layer and then I'll click on the create new fill or adjustment layer and select solid color. I'll choose the color and then use the paint bucket with black selected to make the color disappear. Then I'll click on the transparent layer and select the magic wand and select an area on the transparent lineart layer. Then I switch to the color layer and select the paint bucket and press x to set the foreground color to white. Then I fill the selected area on the solid color layer to color in that area. I'll continue to create new solid color layers until the image is colored in. Next I add shadows by creating a hue/saturation adjustment layer right above the color layer I want to work on and I'll drag the lightness slider to the left, making the image darker and then I'll drag the saturation slider to the right. Then I'll use the paint bucket to fill the layer black. After that I'll create a clipping group between the color layer I want to work on and the shadow layer I created by adjusting the lightness and saturation. I pick the brush tool and set the foreground to white and I set the opacity to about 30%. After I've added the shadows I'll use the gausian blur. After I've added shadows to all the color layers I'll add highlights by basically doing the same thing I did to make the shadow layers, except I increase the lightness slider and decrease the saturation slider. I'll add each highlight layer to the proper clipping group and finish that up. To finish up coloring, I'll create a transparent layer right above the lineart layer and clip it to the lineart. I'll then color the lines to appropriate colors. Finally I go back into image size and again set the dimensions to percent. I usually resize down to 25% and then I'll resize as needed until its the size I want when zoomed out to 100%. Then I'll save the file as a .jpeg and find those annoying lines.
When I use the paint bucket, the settings are: mode: normal, opacity 100%, Tolerance: 75, anti-aliased is checked, Contiguous is checked, and All layers is unchecked.
Is there any way I can get rid of those pesky lines? Do I have messed up settings perhaps? Please help me as this has been driving me insane! I've tried many different methods of coloring and I always end up with the same results. Thank you in advance and if anymore information is needed, let me know
After the lineart is scanned I'll add a white fill layer underneath the lineart layer and then I'll click on the create new fill or adjustment layer and select solid color. I'll choose the color and then use the paint bucket with black selected to make the color disappear. Then I'll click on the transparent layer and select the magic wand and select an area on the transparent lineart layer. Then I switch to the color layer and select the paint bucket and press x to set the foreground color to white. Then I fill the selected area on the solid color layer to color in that area. I'll continue to create new solid color layers until the image is colored in. Next I add shadows by creating a hue/saturation adjustment layer right above the color layer I want to work on and I'll drag the lightness slider to the left, making the image darker and then I'll drag the saturation slider to the right. Then I'll use the paint bucket to fill the layer black. After that I'll create a clipping group between the color layer I want to work on and the shadow layer I created by adjusting the lightness and saturation. I pick the brush tool and set the foreground to white and I set the opacity to about 30%. After I've added the shadows I'll use the gausian blur. After I've added shadows to all the color layers I'll add highlights by basically doing the same thing I did to make the shadow layers, except I increase the lightness slider and decrease the saturation slider. I'll add each highlight layer to the proper clipping group and finish that up. To finish up coloring, I'll create a transparent layer right above the lineart layer and clip it to the lineart. I'll then color the lines to appropriate colors. Finally I go back into image size and again set the dimensions to percent. I usually resize down to 25% and then I'll resize as needed until its the size I want when zoomed out to 100%. Then I'll save the file as a .jpeg and find those annoying lines.
When I use the paint bucket, the settings are: mode: normal, opacity 100%, Tolerance: 75, anti-aliased is checked, Contiguous is checked, and All layers is unchecked.
Is there any way I can get rid of those pesky lines? Do I have messed up settings perhaps? Please help me as this has been driving me insane! I've tried many different methods of coloring and I always end up with the same results. Thank you in advance and if anymore information is needed, let me know
