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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:09 pm

It happens to the best of us. You're in the middle of lecture, and the teacher is droning on about his summer vacation, or A Separate Peace, or human rights, or another one of those boring topics, and you find your pen moving on it's own!

Before you know it, you're doodling away in your binder, and at the end of class, you go back to review your notes, and you think Dang, I'm awesome. I want to color this.

Okay, maybe those aren't your EXACT words. . . but, you know where I'm going, meow.

Anyway, you scan the picture as a photo, at 300 dpi *because we all know bigger is better* and you get this:

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:11 pm

Darn those lines! They're going to ruin everything! Well, let's go into the Image Adjustment menu and then to "Replace Color" like la:

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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:24 pm

Whee, looky here, some rather confusing buttons!

Here's a basic explanation:

Make sure the boxes circled in green are checked, for my sanity and yours.

A is the color that you are going to replace. See that eye dropper? You use that to select the color from the image (make sure the one on the far left is checked, like la)

B is the color that's going to replace A

C Look a little like the Hue/Saturation menu, doesn't it, meow? It's just another way to get B

Finally, D, or Fuzziness, adjusts the extent of the replacement.

Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:30 pm

Now, time to set our settings, meow.

Use the eyedropper to pick up the color of the lines. To help, you can use Ctrl and + to zoom in, since the lines are a little small.

A new replacement will appear automatically, but this shouldn't change the picture much. Adjust the lightness of B all the way to the top, and you've got white!

Finally, fix the fuzziness around 100. Usually, anything between 60 to 130 is good, you can eyeball it to see what work best with your sketch 3nodding

Your final menu should look like this:

You can even save your settings and load them later, to make everything quicker blaugh

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Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:37 pm

Now, just click "Okay" and Voila! Thine pica est fini!

Now you can color to your heart's content, meow heart How simple was that?

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and that it's helped you out!

See you later, MB ^_^

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