Deleting the white from a drawing

This video tutorial explains my method for preparing a drawing to be painted in Photoshop. My method elegantly deletes out the background of a drawing leaving nothing but the lines in about 10-15 seconds. Enjoy!

Hotkeys I use in this tutorial:
adjust levels: ctrl L
RGB channel selection: ctrl alt ~
delete selection: delete
deselect: ctrl D
default colors (black/white): D
lock transparency: /
fill - forground color: alt backspace
merge layer down: ctrl e

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Education

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• video
• tutorial
• digital
• painting
• prep
• preperation
• deleting
• white
• Phtotoshop
• Mohrbacher

[dumiinfo]

CTRL+ALT+2 on CS5

[jordy5889]

ON A MAC!!!!! ITS APPLE+ALT+2

[amassasa]

@frowlong i have photoshop elements 7. The solution i found was: Select a white space of your drawing. Now go to Select > Similar, and it should select all the white in your drawing. Now just delete it.

[frowlong]

what about photoshop elements 6??

[brittisnow]

Hey I just bought photoshop 2.0 and I can't do any of this?!?!? I'm running a 1.33 ghz with 4 gigs of ram and my processecor is a Dell, is it my mouse???

[pikachugirl16]

can you make basic tutorial how cleaning lineart by using sketch in scanner on photoshop CS5?

[SeoJinnn]

omg thank you so much.

this was so helpful !

[Serelie]

what is it in elements 10? ):

ctrl alt ~ does nothing.

[Morbenadic]

Best white removal tutorial I've ever seen.

[FreakRHW]

I know this is probably a bit sad but this just blew my mind! I have have messed about with this stuff for ages!! Never knew it was so simple....thank you!!!