Coloring Comics in Photoshop Tutorial 1, Getting Started

This is part one of a six part tutorial currently being posted on coloring comic books digitally through Photoshop the way comic book professionals do. If you would like to give a shot at coloring this exact piece to practice, you can download it here: http://overgroundcomics.deviantart.com/art/Lineart-for-Youtube-Tutorial-12586...
Thanks for watching!

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[wallyweathers]

Everything goes smoothly until (after I create a Black Channel copy and set options) I click CMYK Channel, choose "Select" and then "ALL" and, here is where t goes wrong, I click "Edit" and choose "Fill" and set options as instructed (white/normal/opacity 100%) - when I do the last part the preview images in my color channels disappear and become blank white. What am I doing wrong?

[OvergroundComics]

@wallyweathers Filling with white is a step that you complete before coloring begins. I recommend watching the entire series through to finishing your work before you begin working the process.

[donroda]

Hi O.C.!Great Tutorial, thank you very much. I have a question. Wen you are done with coloring, how can you save your work in a JPG (for uploading, as example) Obviously the fifth channel (black inks) won´t appear. How do you save it in a compressed format other than PSD or TIFF?

Greetings, I hope you can answer my question.

[OvergroundComics]

@donroda sorry for the wait on the reply. If you completely watch all of the tutorials all the way through to the end, you'll see that the extra black channel is eliminated before the end of the process. You will just use the channel to load as a selection and color in to the rest of your channles.

[bkojak]

i have a question, it might be hard to describe but i'll try. i'm doing everything you have said here, and have been successfully for the last 6 months, but now after i make the black copy and fill the cmyk channels with white, and i'm viewing all of the channels together, the black copy is pink. and if i view all of the channels together along with the black copy before filling with white it's a really vibrant red. something is awry. any clues? i really need this figured out PRONTO!

[OvergroundComics]

@bkojak sorry for the delayed reply, but it sounds like something has changed with your settings. just watch carefully when you are creating the new channel and filling it. you have a color box that will come up and probably show red. click on it and replace it with pure black and that should solve your problem.

[OvergroundComics]

@B4mBoozle This is a coloring tutorial, not a drawing tutorial. I used an interpretation of a well known pose intentionally to give those watching something familiar to work on. It's pretty lame to go around bothering people for no reason.

[OvergroundComics]

@Narcomics You really don't need to go over 8 bit. Also, I think 1200 dpi is probably going way to far. Recently at a show I was talking to some fairly accomplished artists and I was actually advised to just color at 150 dpi. Going really high on your resolution can actaully hinder more than help. I'd advise at the very least going down to 300. I never go over 300 anymore, and my work is looking better than ever. Thanks for watching, let me know if you need anything else.

[matttriano]

Ok. Thanks for posting man, but I have an issue with the anti-aliasing thing--I want my pages grayscale. I scan them grayscale to keep graded wash, spatter, drybrush intact. Every tutorial I come across assumes I want my pages spartan bitmap, stark B&W. I need to find a way to color my work without extracting any of the tonal finish. Please advise.

Thanks so much!

Cheers,

M

[smiley6668]

my problem only occurs when changing the black copy from masked to selected ?

[smiley6668]

and then when i click the eye the whole image is black :S

[smiley6668]

when i select all/ fill/ white ... my black copy looks more like an inverted image ?

[RODNEY383]

With CMYK mode can i switch to that made after already finishing the image for print ? Say i have a image i done a while ago and I wanna print it out and keep the color detail and depth ,does the mode have the be in CMYK from the start ?

[SenjiroAkechi]

@OvergroundComics thank you, i already saw the series but i didn't recall everything.