forumsdrawing discussionPhotoshop Question
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Kloxboy (Sep 2, 2007)
I'm working on a piece in Photoshop. I want to color the lineart, currently it's black, how do I change it to a different color? I know there is some way to select all the lineart at once and then I can just color fill it but I don't recall how to do that. Does anyone know how? I would greatly appreciate any help, thanks.

-JEM
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Wraith (Sep 2, 2007)
Are you talking about the Lasso Tool next to the Magic Wand Tool? That is what I use to select an area that I want to color differently.
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Kloxboy (Sep 2, 2007)
Wraith: Not exactly. I want to select all the lineart at once. I believe you use the Magic Wand tool and some other key(s) to do this, I'm not certain. So not just one piece of the lineart but all of it, so it's all selected at once.
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PolythenePam (Sep 2, 2007)
I'm not sure if it's the "proper" way to do it:
select the lineart layer
(I haven't used photoshop in a long time so I can't remember which file menu thing it's under) open up the box for hue/brightness/contrast and "colorize". You'll have to adjust the brightness first, then adjust the hue to the colour of your liking.
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Kloxboy (Sep 3, 2007)
PolythenePam: That's an interesting solution but I still need to select all the lineart somehow. Thanks for trying. :)
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SoraItachi (Sep 3, 2007)
Your lineart is on a transparent layer, right? The way I color lineart in photoshop doesn't require any selecting, but it works very well and is super easy to do.
On the layers window, where it says "Lock:" and has two (or four, or more, depending on which version of photoshop you have) icons next to it, you click on the first one that's like a box (if you hover over it, it says "Lock transparent pixels"). Just make sure the lineart layer is selected in order to lock it. So after that, you can use the fill tool, brush tool, whatever you'd like to color in the lineart.
I hope that was what you were talking about! C:
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Kloxboy (Sep 3, 2007)
SoraItachi: Thanks! That worked great. That was very easy. You rock! :)
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SoraItachi (Sep 3, 2007)
You're welcome. I'm glad it worked for you! :D
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sincity (Sep 5, 2007)
another way to do it, is select all then hit move and just move it a bit ( it will normally go back to its original position ) There is a short cut key to do this but off the top of my head I can't remember it. This works well though.
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mikron (Feb 8, 2008)
if you want to select every pixel you have in a layer you can hold "ctrl" and left mouse click the layer's tumbnail.
 
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