Photoshop gurus, I request assistance.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:20 pm

If the images aren't in color... all you have to do is change it to Black & White...

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:21 pm

How does that remove the lines?

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:22 pm

Won't the blue lines just be black then?

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:25 pm

Yeah. I tried it just in case I ws missing something (you never know...), and it made the blue lines black. Not helpful.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:31 pm

Oooh, i see what your saying now, I thought you meant you drew them with blue ink or something :p

You can just do Select Color Range from under one of the menus, and that should help clear a lot of it out.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:40 pm

I tried that already, but it occurs to me that I may have not made the selection fuzzy enough to get everything, because it just l;eft crap behind for me.

I'll try that again, I think that may be the most viable method that's not "erase all of them by hand" in any event.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:40 pm

Ok I was just fiddling around in photoshop, and I think it can fix the problem if you simple turn off all the channels EXCEPT the blue one. Doing this just cleared up my artificial blue lines that I created, and left the drawing intact.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 9:47 pm

I found a method. I'll post it here for those interested.

Color Select the blue lines, setting the selection color and fuzziness to get ONLY the lines themselves. Copy paste them. Set the layer style to Screen. Duplicate the layer until they fade away entirely.

I should just carry blank paper with me for drawing... >_<

I'll post the picture later.

Chaos Angel · Post by **Chaos Angel** » Mon Apr 07, 2003 10:01 pm

I tried that, Xarxrax, and it didn't work right. The image as scanned in has the blue lines being as much red and green as blue in terms of color ratios (not pure blue or even close to it), so it left the lines in, just somewhat less blue.