How to Color Manga Scans

[Chugoku-jinko]

First you start your photoshop program, then you open up the image you want to color.



2) open up your layers window (press F7) or go to the bottom right hand corner of your screen and click on the new layer button (the one circled in red)



3) after making a new layer which should be called "layer 1", click on the scroll and set layer 1 to "multiply"



Let me explain why you need to set your layer to multiply and not just leave it on normal. if you color your picture when your layer is set on normal then your coloring will only go over your background image. while on multiply, it shows the background image when you color over it.

4) now go to your tools bar and click on the brush tool and start coloring on layer 1.

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5) after your done coloring go to file > and click on "save for web" and another window would pop-up which will let you make selections of how you have. (such as file type and such) if your fine with your saving settings click on "save"



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and now you're done coloring!

[Fruitsbsk28]

It might be easier in the long run to use the img code for every URL you have here and not just some of them (when you upload an image to imageshack, it gives you selections. Since the images you left without the img tags are huge, just resize them at imageshack or use the Hotlink for Forums #1 code.)

[Chugoku-jinko]

fruitsbsk28 said:

It might be easier in the long run to use the img code for every URL you have here and not just some of them (when you upload an image to imageshack, it gives you selections. Since the images you left without the img tags are huge, just resize them at imageshack or use the Hotlink for Forums #1 code.)

oh okay, at least I didn't use the image tags for thos really huge images XD;;; I'll try to fix it later

[*~NiCkY~*]

nice tutorial!

[bonifasius]

Thanks for the tutorial...,,