Seperating lineart from background

[kirite]

Please note: the following tutorial is for Adobe Photoshop

Hello everyone~

I use the following technique for colouring manga pages and pencil line-art. There are many ways of separating the background and the lineart, but I found this to be the fastest. For the sake of keeping this tutorial reasonably short, I'm going to leave out "cleaning techniques" and "changing lineart colour" sections of the tutorial. I'm sure there are a lot of those tutorials elsewhere .

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With your cleaned lineart/manga page:

1. Change your image into RGB mode. Go to Image>Mode>RGB colour

2. Open your "Channels" and "Layers" pallets. Go to Window> and checkmark "Layers" and "Channels"

3. At "Channels" duplicate a random channel. For my case I duplicated "Blue".

4. Invert the new channel by pressing "Ctrl-I". The lines will now be white and the background black.

5. "Ctrl-click" the new channel to select the white lines only. (Or press the broken-line circle tool*)

6. At "layers" make a new layer. Make the background layer invisible and fill the selection with a colour of your choice.

You should now have a layer of the lineart by itself Enjoy colouring.

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