Colouring in a Line Drawing on Photoshop Part 2

Our task today was to create a collage of images however, this collage was to be of our edited line drawing seen in the previous post.

As with the previous post, this is the beginning of the process. This is my original line drawing which has been scanned in and is ready to be coloured in. I repeated the process in the previous post do do this.  I set this document to a resolution of 150 pixels/inch.

This is the result of colouring in an is the first image to go onto our collage.

To start off the collage, I opened a new A3 document to which I also set to a resolution to 150 pixels/inch. This is so that the image isn't distorted on the new file.
I then used to move tool to drag my first image onto this new file.

The second image of our collage is an inverted image of the original. It is also dragged onto the new file using the move tool.

The third image of our collage is a desaturated image of the previous. It is also dragged onto the new file using the move tool.

The forth image of our collage is an inverted image of the previous. It is also dragged onto the new file using the move tool.

Final Image

Colouring in a Line Drawing on Photoshop

This task was pretty simple. We had to spend 20 minutes or so just drawing a simple line drawing of an object or multiple objects. I chose to draw a stack of books. We then had to scan in this image we had drew so we could edit it on photoshop and make it a colour image.

This was my line drawing. It was scanned in upside down so my first task was to rotate my image 180 degrees.

This is the result however, as it was evident in the previous image, the pencil had smudged and had cause it to look very unclean and I also had writing on the image. I used the rubber tool and magic wand to clean up my image but keep the stencil of my books. Once i had done this, I used the curves tool to make the lines darker and the white, whiter.

To add colour, I used the magic wand to remain within the lines in certain areas. Then, it was the simple task of using the paintbrush tool and colour to, like in an actual drawing, layer the colours to create a sense of light and shading.

I also used the blur tool, dodge tool and burn tool to help define or blend some areas.

Final Piece

Editing a painting on Photoshop

In this lesson, our task was to chose one of our images we had painted over the past week and edit it so that is resembles a final, mounted piece.

The first step was to rotate the image so that it was correctly placed and ready to edit.

Next, I cropped my image using the crop tool to A3 proportions [42x29.7cm]

Then, to help with editing the shading/brightness and contrast to my desired levels, I used the levels tool- which allows me to change all 3 of these so that my image looked as I desired.

I then went to image, adjustments and chose to mess around with hue/saturation. I could change the entire colour of my piece if  chose to but I decided to keep it realistic and see what i could do with the greens.

The last step was to as a boarder to my image so that it resembled a photography final piece where you would frame an image using black mount board. I did this by selecting 'canvas size' and choosing to add a black 100x100 boarder.

The Result