color inside the lines?

I have a scanned black & white drawing where I want to paint color in the white parts without painting over the black lines. What's the easiest way to do this?

(The latest Macworld had an article about a similar idea, except they showed how to paint over the black lines & leave the white space intact. I tried skipping the step where they inverted the selection created by loading the gray channel as a selection but that didn't seem to work.)

JMR wrote:

I have a scanned black & white drawing where I want to paint color in the white parts without painting over the black lines. What's the easiest way to do this?

Set your brush mode to "Darken" and start painting.

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JMR wrote:

I have a scanned black & white drawing where I want to paint color in the white parts without painting over the black lines. What's the easiest way to do this?

(The latest Macworld had an article about a similar idea, except they showed how to paint over the black lines & leave the white space intact. I tried skipping the step where they inverted the selection created by loading the gray channel as a selection but that didn't seem to work.)

Use the paint bucket , and play with the tolerance setting a bit to get rid of the white fringes.

To preserve the original lines more accurately, dup the line art to a new layer first, and set it to darken mode, then click on on the original layer before using the paint bucket.
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Mike Russell
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