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Sun for the Snowman
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 Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 2:56 pm Post subject: Coloring anti aliased drawings |
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This is what you get when you fill something you've drawn with anti alias.
There's an uncolored space between the filling and the contour.
How do I work around this problem?
Is there som setting that can fix it, or do I have to fix it manually?
I've come up with 2 manual methods for fixing this.
Either making the background a similar color to that of the contour (if you've got black contours you use a nearly black background) so that the color in the spaces blends in with the contour.
But this doesn't work if you want to use more than one contour-color...
The 2nd method is simply makign another layer underneath the first, where you draw the appropriate color where the spaces are.
But this gets pretty tiresome if you draw alot...
Isn't there an easier, more automatic way to fix this?
Has to be a very common problem among photoshoppers, so it feels like there should be a more automatic solution than the ones i've come up with... |
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Matt
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Hi there
Very annoying problem.
It's the softness of the brush that's doing it. Try using the pencil tool which has completely hard and aliased edges. You can always reintroduce anti-aliasing afterwards by adding a smidgen of gaussian blur.
Hope this helps
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Sun for the Snowman
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Thanks so much for the answer.
But unfortunately the gaussian blur doesn't look nearly as good as antialiasing.
I also tried to smudge the image, but that was even worse.
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Sun for the Snowman
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I guess the only reasonable solution to this problem would be to select the figure, and copy the selection to another layer (under the layer with the figure) you could just fill the entire thing with color. Quick and easy.
But I'm a n00b so you'll have to help me out again.
How do I copy selections from one layer to another? |
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Matt
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Yeah that's a pretty good workaround actually. To duplicate a layer, first make sure it's active in the layers palette and then use the keyboard shortcut CTRL J (or CMD J on the mac). Now select the original layer and use the paintbrush to fill in the gap.
Another method that just occurred to me is to use the stroke layer style from the Layer menu. Set the colour to the same as your brush stroke and you should be fine.
Out of the two, I would personally work with your suggestion though.
Finally, just a thought but have you got Adobe Illustrator? It would produce this kind of artwork quite easily using its vector-based shapes and live fills?
Hope this helps
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Sun for the Snowman
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Yeah I actually do have Adobe Illustrator! Thanks for the tip. I've never got round to using it before.
Looks like a very nice program. Vector graphics are so smart.
| Quote: | | Yeah that's a pretty good workaround actually. To duplicate a layer, first make sure it's active in the layers palette and then use the keyboard shortcut CTRL J (or CMD J on the mac). Now select the original layer and use the paintbrush to fill in the gap. |
Well, that's actually the method I described in the first post. It's a bit too fiddly, since you have to be a bit precise when painting. I want a more automatical solution.
| Quote: | | Another method that just occurred to me is to use the stroke layer style from the Layer menu. Set the colour to the same as your brush stroke and you should be fine. |
Perhaps I'm doing it wrong/didn't understand, but it doesn't seem to work.
The effect doesn't fill in the gaps. Just looks like this:
(first the original, then the one with the effect)
Just to clarify:
What I really want is to be able to make a cut-out of the entire figure.
Then I could just fill the entire thing with paint in one click, and place it behind the other layer. Would be so easy, and perfect. |
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Matt
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Oh I see what you mean now!
Make sure you're working with a transparent background, create the shape and then CTRL click the layer thumbnail to create a selection. Now go to the select menu and choose grow. Finally go back to the select menu, choose modify and select contract. The amount of pixels will depend on the size of your image but I'd suggest starting with something like 5.
With the stroke layer style option you'll need to switch the position to either outside or centre and then play with the size.
Hope this helps
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