Ok people, Heres a quick lesson for setting up your linework for colouring!!

Once you’ve got your clean scan you’re ready to set up the image for coloring! If you were to immediately begin coloring, any work you did could easily smudge or overwrite your linework.
To keep the linework intact we’ll elevate it to its own layer where it can still be seen but where
you won’t inadvertently mark it up.

All your coloring will actually take place underneath your line work! To do this, convert your
entire image to grayscale [image>mode>grayscale]. Then immediately convert from grayscale to
RGB [image>mode>RGB]. Due to the way Photoshop handles image modes, you can’t just jump from bitmap to RGB modes directly.

Toggle default colors [D]. Next, select your entire image [ctrl A] and cut it [ctrl X]. Now, paste
the lineart back into the document using [ctrl V]. Photoshop will automatically put the linework on
a brand new layer for you. You can double-click the layer title and rename it. I prefer to name mine “lineart”. After renaming the layer, change its mode to multiply.

Thats pretty much it.... Your 'Background Layer' should be blank, this is where you wil do all the
colouring without effecting the linework itself.

If you've any questions, feel free to ask me and I'll be happy to help!!



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