Or somewhere in-between... I have an art related question because I'm trying my hardest to skill myself up on the ol' art front. I use Paint Shop Pro 5, and so far it's been perfectly adequate for my needs - and I assume it always will be. It has layers & what not - I have no view to change.
My problem is that I'm colour blind, and I find it hard to pick a colour to start with when say, I want to draw a chair, or a cabinet. So when I draw I do everything in one colour, black or a light gray usually. As you can imagine, when it comes to colouring its awkward to change the black lines into the right colours for the objects.
I'd just like to know if there's an easy method of removing black lines, or whether there's another trick like layers that means I can draw things willy-nilly & change them if necessary. I don't know how to use layers really either, if anyone has any pointers I'd appreciate it!
But yes, my main question is how do I draw in black and then get rid of it - or can't I? Do I need to know what colour I want to use. I understand I could paint over the black lines, which I have been doing - but that is UBER time consuming!
Thanks
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I know how it feels like when you can't pick a colour to start with...
But well... can't you floodfill the lines?
I usually draw stuff with black lines, then duplicate the layer and floodfill or draw on the new one's lines making slight modifications to the shape of the object to make it look more like I want it.
Though the style I draw in is rather simple, so drawing over isn't that time consuming for my work.
Thanks Ishmael! I have tried flood filling but its hard when your lines are only one pixel thick. Any slight angle on them and you have to flood fill each "step" of the line, and doing that last night took me hooours. Still I like what you say about layers, I'll give that a go and see how long filling in the blacks takes :)
I use photoshop, and in photoshop you can adjust the hues and stuff of certain colors, I assume you can with painshop. You can't use black if you want to adjust the colors with this short cut though, so if you pick a color for outlines you are comfortable with besides black, you should be able to specifically adjust the hues on that color only, and possibly use a lasso type tool if need be....
The easiest way is probably to lasso select the part of the object whose black lines you want to recolour, then flood fill the line with "contiguous regions" deselected.
I seem to remember that PSP has a colour replacer brush. That would work too - just select black as the foreground colour, the replacement colour as the background colour (or it could be the other way around) and paint sloppily over the black lines with a size 5-10 brush.
yeh it's the icon with red box with an arrow going into a blue box, i usually make the brush size 255 so it takes less time, unless there's some stuff that colour that i don't want to re-colour.