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A Photoshop
Tutorial - How to remove-lift the Line Art from the Background – without Magic
Wands etc using the “Quick Mask Mode”
This
posting today is in a different direction from my normal route that I usually
take. It is about learning something new
and keeping the mind fresh by activity.
It is
about using Photoshop – an amazing program developed by the folks at Adobe.
It is
also about Card Making and Scrap Booking as well as the new field of Digital
Scrap Booking.
I am
going to share a method of removing the white background from a Line Art image
to make it Transparent. By making it Transparent with only the lines showing I
am able to paint/colour the image much better on the computer. That’s where it
helps Digital Scrap Booking or any other kind of person working with digital
images.
Why in
the world would anyone want to do such a thing?
First – Sell – Sell – Sell…
Well at this
time we are preparing the images that I have drawn for sale on the Web Site at Crop Circles. These images will be offered to Scrap Bookers
and Card Makers. (At present a very
small example of Misty Hollow Images are being shown… sooooon it will be live -
you are the first to get this “heads-up”).
Folk will
be using the Digital Images to create all kinds of Creations. Not only can the regular Scrap Booking people
use them but they also will ready for the Digital Scrap Booking folk.
The
Digital Scrap Bookers may wish to add colour to the image that they use by
using a program like Photoshop. They
will find this information helpful I am sure.
By
purchasing the image from the Web Site they can store it and use it multiple times
over. It is like a Rubber Stamp only it
is in an electronic form and their printer is the stamp pad.
When the Black
and White image is printed it can be coloured by the “Copic Markers” that are
available everywhere.
In
Peterborough the Copic Markers may be purchased through the Crop Circles store,
which is on the lower level of the Peterborough Square – downtown Peterborough
(360 George Street).
These
Copic Markers can also be purchased through Crop
Circles Web Site.
That is way more information than you needed
right. Well the folk doing a search today
for information about this may need it.
So here goes.
A written Photoshop
Tutorial…
How to remove-lift the Line
Art from the Background – without Magic Wands etc..
I must give credit to “AjayLikesGaming” the person who uploaded the
video which you can follow at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0STJnKYwyQ
1 Select the layer your line art is on…
2 Highlight the area that you want to remove background from… click the Crop
outline around your image…then go to Edit – then click on Cut… everything disappears…
oh boy.
3 Hit the Button – bottom left side of panel- The “Quick Mask Mode” or Q
on the Keyboard…
4 In this mode go to Paste – or hit Control V
5 This will bring in the Line Art – it will be red at this moment…
6 To select the Line Art again… Hit the Q or the click the Quick Mask
Mode button again…
This actually selects
everything around the Line Art it appears with the dotted lines…
7 Then you can hit “Select” and “Inverse” or Ctrl Shift and I
8 Next choose the original layer that the line art came from/on… (you
are likely still on that level unless the phone rang…)
9 Click on Edit … then fill… (the Line Art) – choose Black…
10 The Line Art turns black… if it is not enough contrast … add more
contrast and maybe more Fill…(increase the Line thickness?)
11. When working in Photoshop – to add colour – Make a new layer
(transparent) then colour on the new layer as the original transparent image
shows through.
The
problem that I now have is… I am loving the painting of the Digital Art more
than doing the other work that needs to be done!
For
those of you that don’t know me… I am a Grandpa, 68 years old and learning new
things every day. That is the way
retirement should be.
~
Murray Lincoln ~
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