EASY Photoshop Trick! Isolating Lines

Prepping a traditional drawing for use as digital lineart may seem daunting, but these quick tips will have you isolating traditionally-made lines like a pro in no time! Whether you want to color under your lines, or even recolor them to better suit your piece, this method will ensure you spend less time tinkering with settings and more time working on your art.

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[jeskobendmann]

Nice one! I like to CMD+C the whole drawing, create a black color layer paste the drawing into the mask and invert it. ;)

[funky_galaxy]

Another easier way: do as he says until the inverted selection. Now ctrlC ctrlV to copy and paste the selection only. Now you have a normal layer with the lineart alone! You can delete the original scan! Activate Alpha Lock to color only the lineart, create a new layer under to color the drawing.

[GeekyGami]

Want an easier way to do it?
Works in both Krita and Photoshop.

Filter>Gradient map
Make it go from black to black, but make the right part 0% opaque.
It'll make everything white in your drawing transparent and keep everything else as entirely black, with varying levels of transparency, which you can then tweak.

You can then CTRL+J the layer as many times as needed to get your sketch as dark as you want it to be.
You can also slightly move each layer if you want to fill in spots.

You're welcome.

[bitemyshinymetalass]

awesome shortcut!
and
you can also control+left click the square view thingy left of the layer name and select everything on that layer. if you have a line only layer that could work too.

[alexisvaracolacci]

In old versions there was a button in the bottom of that window. They took it away in the CC versions. You have to have very clean and closed lines.
Thanks for sharing!

[delthorpe]

I've been doing this the long way for years, this will save me a lot of time! Thanks for sharing and keeping it simple!

[safe]

I've heard of this one on a youtube video before. Happy to see this again, and it's easy because it's in a video itself, in a short. Nice!

[luci_datum]

This was always fun to do during my photoshop course between projects. Another things you can do in basically any art program is change a black and white drawing to a multiply layer if you can't do this method. Cheers!

[razym]

or just put the layer above in multiply

[zerayah]

You have no idea how much time I have wasted before watching this lol, thank you soooo muchhh

[mecrac]

I Would really enjoy more bite sized photoshop tricks like this. I always forget that this option in the program exists.

[bloodghul]

please dont ever delete this tutorial, my bird size brain keeps coming back at it 3 times a month- 😔🙌

[novorii]

This was so helpful!! Thank you for the tips! :)

[onyedraw]

Will like to see the video on how to clean your image

[hosechavez]

Oh you have made my life so much easier! Thank you! I have been putting off drawing digital for so long because of redrawing lines in photoshop

[weksheddweller]

I wish I knew this a decade ago when I started coloring on Ps X_x. Oh well better knowing now than never!

[spkoftdvl]

Is there any way to select the interior of a specific figure and painting in white? Lets say I have the black lines of a human figure and I want that figure to be completely white (not the black lines), is there any way to do it?

[bingkisstudio]

gonna do this if i have a scanner. for now i'll just re-drawing, its ok.

[nekromanda]

I… what! Oh man I gotta try this. I’ve been doing this wrong for fifteen years apparently.