Coloring Anime Picture

October 9th, 2006 by Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Color Management

Coloring Anime

Anime may be nice in black and white, but wouldn’t it be much better in color? Now you can color Anime very easy using a few steps to achieve this result!

Ever wanted to color those boring black and white anime?

  • Step 1 As an example, I’ve chosen the protagonist from DragonballZ, Goku, which, to me, is the best Anime ever!

    Coloring Anime

  • Step 2 First we need to create a random background of a random gradient, then place the drawing on top of it and change the blending-mode to Multiply;

    Coloring Anime

  • Step 3 EVERYTHING we’re gonna do takes place UNDER the drawing;
    Now grab the Magic Wand-Tool and select all the pieces of skin on the top layer;
    Select your first piece of skin and then HOLD SHIFT to select multiple area’s;

    Note:NIF YOU HAVE A WACOM OR A DRAWING-TABLET LIKE ME, YOU COULD ALSO USE THIS.
    REMEMBER TO STILL COLOR ON A LAYER UNDER THE LINES…
    EVEN THOUGH I HAVE A WACOM, I STILL USE THE MAGIC WAND-TOOL TO SHOW YOU HOW THE RESULT SHOULD BE!

    Coloring Anime

  • Step 4 Then go to Select>Modify>Expand and expand the selection by 1 pixel;

    Note:WE DO THIS BECAUSE THEN THE COLORS TOUCH THE LINES, OTHERWISE THEY DON’T!

    Coloring Anime

  • Step 5 Do this with all the colors and place them ALL ON DIFFERENT LAYERS UNDER THE LINES;

    Coloring Anime

    Coloring Anime

    Coloring Anime

    Coloring Anime

  • Step 6 If you want to add some nice shadow as well.

    Coloring Anime

Author        :  MICK MOOLHUIJSEN 
HomePage :  http://www.mickm.com