Comic Flatting Tutorial Part 2

Ok, this is part 2 of my flatting Tutorial. My name is Lisa and I have been working flatting comics for a little over a year now. I enjoy it very much and a couple people have asked me how I do it. So here is a tutorial/walkthrough were I show you how it works. You can check out my website at www.just-flats.net

The Young Flame - The comic pages featured in this video are from a comic called The Young Flame. You can check out the official myspace for this comic at: http://www.myspace.com/millicomics

Best Tutorial for learning how to Flat:
As I mentioned in the video this is the best tutorial that I have found for learning the process of flatting. It is actually the tutorial that I learned from:
http://www.mark-sweeney.com/Site-Pages/Tutorials/PDF-Tutorials.html
It is the first tutorial on that page.

Thanks for looking and if you have any questions for me, ask away!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• comic
• flatting
• flats
• comics
• coloring
• photoshop

[VarVarGin]

what I don't get about this is why you don't get color filling on over the color you've already done,

In other words your selection overlaps something already colored , why when you bucket fill it doesn't fill in that overlapping part?

[safarisunset83]

Well the other colors sort of act as a barrier that keeps it from coloring over every section. So if you use your bucket to fill in a blue color then only that color will be changed. It just goes up to the other colors and stops. Now if you use the bucket to color in any other color within the collection then it will change. Basically it only changes the one color your actually using the bucket on. Hope that makes sense.

[betudi]

hey can i ask question? how many minutes do you finish on per page

[safarisunset83]

It varies really. Though I'd say most pages take at least an hour. An average would be about an hour and a half per page.

[Psytheslasher]

Do selecting similar colors matter on different pages?

[safarisunset83]

Not sure what you mean, are you talking about where I said to use the same colors for each person on the page? If so then no you don't have to use the same colors on different pages. If you want to you can just start over and choose whatever colors you want. Or what I usually do is just keep a page I've already flatted open and just use the eye dropper to select colors for the new page. If that isn't what you meant just let me know.

[hueville]

@patrickmondragon Just posted the tutorial for this. Let me know if you have any questions about it! It's pretty straight forward.

[hueville]

@hueville Otherwise known as the username I'm logged in as. Doh. lol I didn't realize I was logged into this account when I replied. lol

[hueville]

@patrickmondragon I'll try to make a tutorial on this for you today. I have another channel set up that I'm going to start posting more stuff on if you didn't know. It's at username is hueville.

[patrickmondragon]

once flatting, and coloring is finished how do you merge channels and the new black alpha channel in rgb mode.

[patrickmondragon]

once flatting, and coloring is finished how do you merge channels and the new black alpha channel in rgb mode

[Byakoyane]

what table do you have

[VarVarGin]

ok that kind of makes sense, I tried it and your right it does work! and after all these years of using photoshop I didn't know that! boy do I fell dumb, the hours I could have saved!

well thanks a lot , your tut sure has helped

[betudi]

thx 4 reply i learn from your tutorial...