

Maybe this is how you’ve been doing it, or maybe you’re already light years ahead of me on digital techniques.īut while working on my book, We Are Fungi, that quick-fix method just wasn’t cutting it. For too long, I had been removing my backgrounds the lazy way: by setting my linework layer Blend Mode to Multiply. In this quick tutorial I’m going to show you my new and improved method for removing a background from your line art, using some of the artwork from my upcoming book, We Are Fungi!įirst, let me make a confession. But if you work initially on paper, like I often do, then you can run into some problems. Obviously, if you work completely digitally, you can just draw your linework on a separate layer and you’re good to go. If "inversion" that Clenny thinks is related to other actions, please write down the question following this thread.One of the requests I hear most from other artists is how to separate linework from a background when you scan a drawing into Photoshop.

(However, if you do not draw anything, the message "There is no deformation target" appears and can not be executed)

If you want to invert left and right or up and down, press the fourth "zoom, reduce, rotate" (deformation) from the right of the selection range launcher and press the left-right inversion or upside-down icon which appears on the tool property palette, You can invert the selected range. Please try it because you can cancel it with undo. When you flip it and press it, the outside is painted. (Or vice versa)įor example, if you turn around from lasso surrounded by lasso selection, and press the third bucket icon from the right of the squash selection range launcher, the inside surrounded by the dotted line will be painted. The state where "inside" of the range enclosed by the dotted line was selected was reversed, and "outside" of the range surrounded by the dotted line was selected. The toolbar is said to be a "selection range launcher", but if you select "reverse selection range"
