remove the colors??? 1

[hassified]

Hey, can someone tell how to get just the outlines of an image?? Look here, I do my own hand drawn comics, I want to scan them in to photoshop an remove the hand applied colors and recolor to give a new clean look. Is there a way to just grab the black outlines and shadows without the colors so to start fresh??? Thanks in advanced.

 

[blueark]

Convert the file to CMYK, go to the channels palette and select each channel except black and clear them. Using levels, curves or even brightness/contast you should be able to clear any remaining gray areas.

 

[HowardMarks]

Please post a link when you are done, i would be interested to see your comics. Nick (Web Developer)

http://www.retrographics.co.uk

nick@retrographics.co.uk

 

[mscallisto]

Blueark

How does one actually clear the channel color to zero?

I can click the channels eyeball off untill I have only black remaining but the CMY colors still remain in the picture. Can the CMY colors be cleared to zero so I have only a black on white picture?

 

[jc52]

turn on only the channel for the color you want to clear;
select all, then delete;
they're gone!

 

[mscallisto]

JC52

That worked great...exactly what I wanted.

I had previously tried to delete each unwanted channel until only black remained (right click, delete channel) and found the results to be quite different (not what I wanted).

Can you help me understand the difference between deleting a channel and deleting the contents of a channel?