Tutorial for scanning pics and coloring them

1.Put yer scanner on 600 dpi for max info of the pic.Later you'll lower it to 300 dpi when you've opened it in photoshop.

2.Open your pic in photoshop and click 'menu->image->Image size' and lower the dpi to 300.In the end you can also use thise to resize the pic itself (width and heigth) for putting it on this site.

3.Click 'Image->Adjust->levels of brightness/contrast.By tweaking with these two sliders you're able to make the lines look finished asif they were inkt.

4.Now put it in RGB colors otherwise you won't be able to use colors because we have scanned it as a greyscale document.
'Image->Mode->RGB color.

5.On your right top hand you have a layer tab check in here if you have one layer called background. Double click this give it a name to your choice and change the 'normal' for 'multiply' in the box of the layer tab.

6.Create a new layer and go to the layer tab you will see a layer added on top of the one you already had.You can drag that new layer in this tab down under the one you started with.Because our drawing layer is on multiply it is like a plate of glas.Now you can paintbrush or use lassotool bucketfill to color your pic without the lines being fecked up.Just click in the layer tab on the new layer and you'll paint under the lines,because we're painting on layer under the layer with lines.

7.theres an option in the layers palet under 'layers' to 'flatten image' wich makes it one layered pic.

Picture nr 1 is a greyscale scan.
Picture nr 2 is done like I have explained here above.The highlights here and there were done with the 'dodge-tool'.Handles like an eraser only it makes that what you touch with it a bit of a lighter shade of that particulair color.

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