Secondly, once you make a live paint group you have to have automatic gap detection checked (turned on) and you choice of predefined or custom gap sizes specified. For the subject image my guess would be to start with a preset and the one I would choose would be comic art. There are a boat load of parameters for this process. Here are some comment on the three steps needed.įirst, the Live Trace step must be done well. Like numerous Photoshop tools, the success of Illustrator tools like Live Trace and Live Paint are very image dependent and some experience helps. I can make a few quick comments, however. I doubt that I will get to trying the proposed method on that sample image this weekend. I just did a little playing around with your image, and the process is pretty quick and easy. When youâre finished, trash "Layer 2" and flatten. Repair "Layer 1" as needed with hand painting or erasing. While youâre working, occasionally turn off the visibility of "Layer 2" to inspect your work. Switch to "Layer 1" fill with your color of choice. Default tolerance of 32 should be good.Ĭlick with the Magic Wand tool within the area you just "closed in" with the Brush Tool. Now, with your Magic Wand selected, make sure the boxes marked "Contiguous" and "Sample All Layers" is checked in the Options bar. Working in "Layer 2", use a small brush to draw lines which appear to close the gaps in the lines in your original drawing in "Layer 0". ("Layer 1")Ĭreate a new layer above "Layer 0" in the stack. I canât believe Adobe hasnât come up with something like this already.ĪLT+Click on the I think it came from Australia⦠and it was a basic digital paint program of some sort. It was a free dowloaded program that I got once, way back around 1998. I KNOW that such a program exists⦠because I recall there used to be such a program. Photoshop will only select shapes that are 100% intact, so I wind up having to spend lots of time searching to repair broken lines before Photoshop selects just that one area. What I wish to do is scan a pencil drawing and then create selected shapes in a quick and easy method using a magic wand tool.Ä«ut it needs to be a magic wand tool that will select an area drawn from a series of broken lines. I work mostly in Photoshop CS, but I have been searching for a solution to a digital problem that I canât quite seem to find using either Photoshop or Illustrator. Iâm an illustrator⦠working in both digital & real artwork.
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