Photoshop question ~ Creating drawings with layers

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Ok Devlz told me to make drawing with layers so i made the four layers he told me to make outline shading colour and background and i drew the outline of the drawing, then i went to colour it with paint bucket tool on the colour layer however it coloured the whole sheet.

So what i am trying to ask is is there a way to overcome this? so i can still use the paint bucket tool without having to draw the outline on different layers?

Thanks in advance ;)

[Harvey]

Use the magic wand tool to select the sections inside the lines of the outline (if that makes sense), then with the section/s still selected click on the colour lay, then use the paint bucket :)

Should work.

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I LOVE YOU!

plus how did i not think of that?

[Devlz]

I do it differently lol.

I go a layer under the one with the lines. Take a brush, pick the desired color and give it a nice size for faster coloring.

So basically you just color it the same way like you made the lines.  ;)

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ah ok i might try that cause the way i just did it left uncolored lines inbetween the line and the block of color :))

[Harvey]

Ah cool, I'm not a graphics pad user :)

What i personally do is use the pen tool / polygonal lasso to make the selections, fill them in one layer (Edit > Fill) then on a new layer stroke the same selection so I get the outline seperately.

Not sure if that'd work with a pad though.

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i only really use the tablet to draw the outlines :L the colouring i usualy do using a mouse but with wytchcrafts way ill use tablet i reckon ::)

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AAARRGGHHH, why can't i shade no matter how i shade it it looks crap i just cant hade i mgonan go find a shading tut lol

[Harvey]

Decide on a source of light, i normally go for top right corner. make sure all the shadows are in the right place, ie. the opposite side to the light source :) hope that helps.

[Fresh]

I do it differently :(

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Decide on a source of light, i normally go for top right corner. make sure all the shadows are in the right place, ie. the opposite side to the light source :) hope that helps.

i knwo how to do it i knwo the theory but it just cant make the shading smooth and nice looknig but thanks anyway :)

[Devlz]

Practice makes perfect.

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Practice makes perfect.

yeh yeh... i know -.-

[I C0NN0R I]

tl:dr comments, sorry if someone already said it, but just use a brush and paint down colours on the layer below the linework. If you go outside the lines just erase it afterwards.

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tl:dr comments, sorry if someone already said it, but just use a brush and paint down colours on the layer below the linework. If you go outside the lines just erase it afterwards.

what does tl:dr mean?

[Harvey]

tl:dr means "too long, didn't read" :)

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thanks :)

[Marc]

all practise m8