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Making a pencil layer in teh Gimp

Tree · 2006-10-24 23:04:14

How does one go about turning an opaque pencil drawing into a transparent pencil drawing that you can colour behind? There's a lot of pencil on the page and various shades of grey that i want to keep, and ive no clue how to go about making the whiter bits invisible.

25-10-2006 12:04AM

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How does one go about turning an opaque pencil drawing into a transparent pencil drawing that you can colour behind? There's a lot of pencil on the page and various shades of grey that i want to keep, and ive no clue how to go about making the whiter bits invisible.

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#2 08-11-2006 06:23PM

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You can't do it perfectly but changing the layer blend mode of the pencil drawing to multiply will work a bit. The best route is to digitally ink onto a new layer.

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