Using Recolor With Line Art

This tutorial should make recoloring the outlines of Line Art a whole lot faster :)

First open the line art :)

I am using a dragonfly line art from the Faery Ink Archive, but any line art will work.

Increase colors, and remove the background as you usually would ;) Not sure how? Click HERE for a tutorial to teach you how :)

Once you have the background area removed, use your lasso tool to select the areas you are going to recolor a particular color

I am starting with the wings of the dragonfly


Hold down SHIFT as you select all of the various areas so you dont lose any of the selection )


Then choose the color replacer tool with the following settings :
( Click on the tab with those wheelie things to adjust the tolerance to 0 )



Now make the color of the line art ( normally black ) the background color and the color you want it to be the foreground color

Now click inside your image.


Now all I have to manually add to the wings is ONE pixel that I missed upon selection :D

Do the same with any other area you need to recolor,

then fill in your line art as you usually would :D



Hope this makes things a little easier :)

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