GIMP Help

[VA_Ninja]

After my PS trial went out, I decided to try out The GIMP. I've gotten used to it because it's pretty similar to PS, but I need help with something. I've got a scanned picture here, and I want to rip out the lineart and give it it's seperate layer so I can digitally color it. Grandmaster_Skweeb(hope I spelled that right) had a tutorial of how to do this with Photoshop, but it's not quite as applicable to The GIMP. Anyone know how to do this?

[Nique]

If you posted the picture it might be easier to figure out what you're trying to do. I'm not a gimp pro by any means but I use it a lot.

[VA_Ninja]

Pic

I want to get the lineart on it's own separate layer, rather than being attached to the paper, if that makes sense. I put the lines onto a transparent layer and put coloring layers underneath.

[Nique]

Open your picuture.
Click 'tools'
Click 'Brightness-Contrast'
Adjust your Contrast to about 118 or whatever you'd like (more would be better as i'm finding out). You'll loose all of your drawn shading, but you don't need or want that on there for what you're doing anyway.

Theres probably a better way to do that, but it seems to work. You can figure out how to delete all the whitespace and select your drawing only, right?

[Arlia Janet]

Will this work? I used photoshop and saved it as a transparent gif. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the GIMP, but I think this'll work.

[VA_Ninja]

Originally Posted by Nique

You can figure out how to delete all the whitespace and select your drawing only, right?

Actually, that's what I came here for.

Originally Posted by Arlia Janet

Will this work? I used photoshop and saved it as a transparent gif. I'm a bit unfamiliar with the GIMP, but I think this'll work.

Perfect! *ego hug* Exactly what I was looking for. Though I still need a more permanent solution.

[Arlia Janet]

Does the GIMP have "threshold" and "color range" functions like photoshop does? 'Cause that's all I needed.

[VA_Ninja]

Originally Posted by Arlia Janet

Does the GIMP have "threshold" and "color range" functions like photoshop does? 'Cause that's all I needed.

I've found Threshold, it might have Color Range under a different name.

[Arlia Janet]

Here's how you would do it in photoshop-
1- go to image->adjust->threshold to turn all of the grayscale images into just black and white. Photoshop has a little bar that you can slide to change the threshold level. Play around with it until you get a good outline without it getting dirty with extra speckels.
2- Change it to RBG Color Mode
3- Go to select->Color Range. It'll show your picture either as it is with black lines and a white background or vice-versa. Click the black lines until it has a black background and white lines. This will automatically "lasso" all the lines in your drawing.
4- Cut and Paste in a new layer.
5- Ta da!

[VA_Ninja]

Yes! Thanks AJ, that tutorial and a little experimenting got me just what I needed. Thank you so much!