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Two-Tone Coloring
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Short Description: This tutorial will walk you through coloring your favorite black and white drawing in the classic. anime style. If you're reading this tutorial, I expect you to be fairly acquainted with Photoshop, as. in knowing the names of the tools ...
Content Inside: Two-Tone Coloring Now I'm sure that at least some of you have seen an anime, those very cool Japanese cartoons that have an equally cool art style. Well if you've noticed, anime doesn't use fading colors to blend in a shadow, they use well placed blocks of color across their characters to define shadows. This form of coloring is commonly referred to as "Two-Tone" coloring, as you're using your colors sparingly. This tutorial will walk you through coloring your favorite black and white drawing in the classic anime style. If you're reading this tutorial, I expect you to be fairly acquainted with Photoshop, as in knowing the names of the tools and what they do. If you are a beginner then you are welcome to run through this tutorial as well, but you may find yourself lost at times. SCAN IT IN: I assume you know how to operate your scanner, so we'll move on to what you need to do immediately after you scan. Once you have scanned your image, it will need to be cleaned up a bit (getting all that gray gunky stuff out of the image, sharpening lines, etc). Cleaning up a scan is relatively easy; simply choose Image >> Adjust >> Brightness/Contrast. First off, turn up the brightness until most (not all) of your gray gunk is off the image. Now close the box and open it again; this time, turn up the contrast until your image has a nice set of smooth black lines and a perfectly white background. The image should look something like this one: REMOVE THE WHITE SPACE: To accurately color your image, you'll need to get rid of the pesky white space so you can take advantage of Photoshop's amazing abilities. Follow these keystrokes exactly, then delete the initial background layer: Windows: CTRL + ALT + 1, CTRL + SHIFT + I, CTRL + J Macintosh: CMND + ALT + 1, CMND + SHIFT + I, CMND + J
