Preparing Your Line Drawing For Digital Painting Digital Imaging: A Photoshop Workshop Teacher: Ken Kimura email: ken_kimura at lsrhs dot net telephone: (978)443-9961 XT2221 Clean up your image using brightness/contrast Image menu > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast... Increase brightness to whiten the paper Increase the contrast to darkent the lines Make sure your image is oriented correctly Image menu > Rotate Canvas Make sure your image will fit in a 700 pixel square area. Image menu > Image Size... make sure “Constrain Proportions” is checked determine which is larger, hieght or width type 700 pixels for the larger number click OK Change to RGB color mode Image menu > Mode > RGB Color Creating Your Transparent Outline Layer Go to your Channels palette Duplicate the Red Channel - drag it onto the post-it note icon Invert the channel Image menu > Adjustments > Invert In your channels palette click on the word RGB (turns on all the color channels) Go to your layers palette Create a new layer and bring it to the top. Name it “Outline” Turn off all other layers. Load Selection Select menu > Load Selection > choose Red Copy for channel Set your foreground color to black type the letter D Fill the seletion with the foreground color option / delete Deselect Apple D Edited 4-12-06