Just one question; what advantage is there to using alpha selection versus the multiply layer? It seems like essentially the same result either way.

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The visual result is the same, but you can do a lot more with the lines without some adverse effects.

For example, in a lot of my own color work, I will apply an adjustment layer to my characters, but I do not want it to affect the background. So I will merge the color for the character and the character's lines together into a single layer, and then apply the adjustments I want. The only problem is that if I merge the lines with ANY other layer, it will adopt the "normal" layer mode, and the white will become visible.

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Also, allow me a second to show one of my own color works for visual reference: [link]

I grouped a new layer to my lines layer. The lines were set to "normal" and the white was removed using this approach. I would not have been able to change the color of my lines the way I wanted to soften the edges around my fills if they were set to "multiply."

I see. So basically it just simplifies the more advanced coloring techs out there? Simple enough.

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This is definitely a tutorial for people who have had a fair amount of experience, and have built enough confidence in their artistic abilities to manipulate the colors of lines as well. It's something I struggled with for years, trying to find a very simple and effective means of converting the white in a lineart to an alpha channel. I wish somebody spelled it out like this for me months ago.

Thank you for posting
i always wondered if there was any other way to remove the white from a lineart.
I myself don't have much photoshop experience, but this is a very simple tutorial to follow (even for me ).
This will definitely help me a lot ^^

Thanks again ^_^

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Uh, what should we do if we have something like Elements, and don't have channels?

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Perfect timing. Thank you!

For any artist using The Gimp, you can simply take the lineart layer, and select:
Filters -> Colors -> Color to Alpha
make sure you select pure white (ffffff) as the color.

I'm using an older version of The Gimp (because I do not care for the newest version--it's too photoshopy) but I can't imagine they would have taken that feature away.

Hope that helps any linux/open source artists out there that needed it!

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Oh... and just to clarify, you'd get the same results as this tut. You know -- no grey boxes around your lines, or anything.

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