when computer coloring sketches, how would you darken the outline of your picture and make the white transparent, so that you could color in the transparent part with any color you wanted? Does that sound too complicated? Like making the outline stay, but the white turns transparent and then you can color the transparent part that used to be white... Does anyone get this? I really hope so because I have been needin to know how to do this for a long time...

Like after you scan a drawing into your computer?

Create a new layer and use the pen tool to trace around the outside. You could also use the magic wand to select the uncoloured areas and delete them - but the outline probably wouldn't be very crisp.

You don't really need to make the whites transparent, you can just color over them. It's much easier then trying to do it that way. Though you could try duplicating the layer, erasing the white, and darkening the outline. Plus it also depends on the graphic program you use.

ok....I'm confused

Kittypurrson, whoever you are, this is NOT an appropriate post. If you want to chat, go to the chat section. Don't add nonsense posts on the end of already answered questions. If you can answer a question, fine, answer it, but no nonsense please!!!

very good tutorial about how to outline graphics like that can be found here:

http://www.daydreamgraphics.com/tutorials/list.php?action=list&cat_id=1&id=78

what i did with a drawing from myself was this:

1. i scanned it in and have used the "black & white" option to scan in. So you don't get dodgy greyscaled outlines, but only black and white. I also made my drawing with a fineliner, that's always a tip to do. Pencils are way to light.

2. then i opened my image. I made a new layer and i want doing the edges on that layer like explained in the tutorial i gave above. Onto that layer you will get automatically a raster layer on top of it (so in total you get 3 layers) because of the bezier option.

3. then you go go the second layer (vector) you made yourself in step 2. this is the layer wher eyou go colouring. you can just go colouring with a brush tool, because you haev lines you don't need to be so exact. The lines are ON TOP of this colouring so don't worry.

4. when you are ready with colouring you go to layers > merge > merge all and your images is ready. If you did it right you should see the lines AND the colouring in one image.

Love,
Mirna