Preserved Topic: when you bring in drawings to photoshop newbie question (Page 1 of 1)

Hey, what's up, everyone?
I am a newbie to photoshop illustrator and any other design program...I just had a question about bringing in drawings into photoshop..well, I am interested in comic drawings, so I draw a couple of black and white drawings, san em, and then try to maipulate them on photoshop. I usually try to outline the whole drawing and manipulate it from there to add color and such. But I was wondering if there is an easier way or another way that you guys do it? I'd appreciate your comments. Thanks
-Spyder

Check out this site - http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/ - has a bunch of tips on doing anime type drawings in photoshop. Also, check out this thread - http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum3/HTML/002619.html - which has a bunch of forum peeps methods.

Don't use photoshoppe for anything in cell style. If you can learn illustrator for these applications you'll save time and be much happier with the end result. Photoshop's bezier point and pen tool is extremely useful, especially for a raster program, but tedious when compared to illustrator. Also once you're done with your art it can be readily manipulated without any loss of line, edge, or color quality. My method includes a scanned hand drawn and inked original with the neatest possible line quality. From there you can either cheat and use Adobe's raster to vector line art program, Streamline, then possibly smoothing in Illustrator or retrace the lines using the pen tool in illustrator. I find that tracing the entire shape as a fill, then hiding that piece (Ctrl-3) and then retracing to the inner line and then using the pathfinder to divide the objects produces an extremely high quality outline with the precision of the computer yet hand drawn quality of ink. You can then place layers of varying color or opacity below this outline, much like you could in photoshop but with the full capability to make changes later to shape or color without fear of quality loss. Many techniques are interchangable between Illustrator and Photoshop, but their applications are often misunderstood and misused. As far as cell style coloring and comic drawing without intricate shading or gradient effects Illustrator is far superior. However with photoshop you can achieve gradiated color effects and transitions between hues, shades, and colors far easier.


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