How to color pen and ink drawings in GIMP

I promised someone I would give them a quick how-to guide for separating the ink lines in a Pen & Ink drawing into a separate layer in GIMP. Here it is. Prepare to be incredibly bored.

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Howto & Style

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• how-to
• color
• GIMP

[emmanuelmadail]

how would i do this one photoshop?

[razorblade530]

That's amazing. One of the problems I was having is that my scanned copies are not clean. I had no idea you could clean the copies up like this, but I'm new to GIMP.

[TheRud3B0y]

There always is the option to just use colors>Levels than using the white eyedropper to select one of the smudges the get rid of the greys. Then make a duplicate of the Background layer and setting the new copy of background layer to Multiply. Making a new layer and moving it under the new copy of the background and coloring on the new layer

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[xArcanexAngelx]

@runepkr855 go to image > mode > RGB h

[gearykid]

@lucianboymacon What happened on the "paper" layer was, he forgot to hit enter when he renamed the layer.

[lucianboymacon]

at 5:14 you lost me, you named one layer paper then suddenly there was "new layer" in its place? then you made another layer and the box closed.. im so confused

[runepkr855]

i colored my picture but all i see is grey.

how to i see the color?

[7Hoshi7]

thank you very much :D I didn't know of the curve!!! I dind't understand the second part (from the new layers) but this tutorial is very helpful for me :D thanks

[lc528ky]

man thank you so much!!!

[360xDX]

anthro??