Remove the White Background From Line Art in Adobe Photoshop
August 8, 2024 2024-08-08 17:29
Remove the White Background From Line Art in Adobe Photoshop
Line art drawings are used as a base for a digital painting or colored drawing. They’re built, as the name suggests, from lines, and they should have lines only, without any background. When you draw the line art digitally, you can use a separate layer for this. But what if you used the Undo command one time too many and Photoshop, according to its weird habit, switched you to the background layer, and you didn’t notice it until it was too late? Or what if you have drawn your line art traditionally, on a white sheet of paper, and now you need to remove it without redrawing the lines with a tablet? In this very short tutorial I’ll show you two methods of getting the lines back—a popular one, and a professional one. If you don’t have any line art to use at the moment, feel free to download the attachment and follow me. Or practice this tip using our helpful Drawing Stocks from Envato Market: https://graphicriver.net/drawing-in-graphics?utm_campaign=yt_tutsplus_LMV1NlM-ww8&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=youtube.com&utm_content=description
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Comments (48)
@ybb220
Thank you thank you thank you very very much!
@wasist124
Very easy and to the point, thank you!!!
@1amb_t33th
thank you so much ypu saved my life thank you very very much i love you be happy
@-beee-
Keep coming back to this. Thank you!
@woafofbread
Thanks! This was very helpful! I had no idea that channels could do that
@madisonbaker4663
hands down my favorite method, thank you!!
@sumangurung3713
You should have told me the layers beneath will all turn into grayscale. Now my color drawings on separate layers are all grayed and I don't think I can recover them.
@unfriendlykarma
thank you so freaking much, this was perfect, i struggled bc my "line art" is stippled and omg i was struggglinggggg
@cherryeyr
I am eternally grateful for this video! I spent all day looking for this kind of tutorial. Thank you so much, makes my job 1000 times easier now. Much love <3
@OmnipotentSaiyan
I make character animations and when I draw lines and export the image when it's colored its a few pixels of white behind my line art is there a way to prevent that?
@lachlanstacey6300
saved my uni score for this semester. Cheers!
@onemanstudio5643
NICE VIDEO
@user-cn5ul7ri4f
so sick. this helps me so much!
@anjali_zombie
This worked so good! thank you so much and i love your voice!
@conniehipshire7928
Perfection! Thank you! This video was just what I was looking for!
@stankurcz6415
This is the worst video I have seen. She talks too fast, ane the screen shots do not capture the all of steps.
Terrible unless you already know how to do it!
@Rocarisleep
Спасибо
@conradruizph
really helpful, thank you! you have my subscribe and like😁
@M00nlord
This was perfect. Thank you so much. Saved me so much time in cleaning up a lineart with solid white background.
@denislavpetrov7723
Thanks!
@darrellthompson4206
I needed to remove the black background from a cloud of white smoke, I just inverted the image first, then followed your tut and it worked great. I exported it as a png so I can use it in another application 🎉
@RobertsDigital
too much talking
@mayursatardekar6974
Thanks
@nternetrat
YASSS amazing tutorial thank youu
@haleybarngrover
I come back to this video every couple weeks when I (inevitably) forget a step or miss something and it doesn't turn out how I expected. Thank you for the amazing resource!
@sapianolessons
Perfect explanation! Is there a way to colorize the sketch though, as well as removing the background as you've done? So lets say, you want the line drawing of the pegasus to be red instead of black. I'm just getting back into photoshop, and a lot has changed. Hopefully this is something simple.
@FictagiousDaveSavage
This is going to be a silly question but. Is there a way to do this using Paint Shop Pro 8?
Yes. Seriously.
@S-ivanov
Amazing! Thank you 🙂
@user-et2nx7ou7o
WOW finally I can do this Thank you
@jjuanringgold3999
Yo this worked, now I know what to do when I am extracting art from sketchbook pro to PSD appreciate you and thanks 🥹
@chokeromance
Thank you for this, I've been searching for a way to get rid of the white and the tricky little bits it leaves behind for ages!
@ghadanajjar3389
I had to repeat the video over and over to understand what she is doing! she is too fast and do not highlight her steps clearly
@ImNotGenerous
This is like my 7th time coming back to this video. I wish I could like it twice. Thank you very much!
@pasta_agiolio9611
Start from 2:06 minutes
@Emeehhh
very useful and so well explained!!!
I was looking for a way to remove the white background from the coloring pages i do when i need to relax and this helped me a lot! now there's no limit on what i want to color!
@FeralSwift
When i copy and paste in channels, my alpha 1 channel remains black, it doesnt paste the white and black like yours did.
@zaklay9399
The line art layer still has grey around it. What if I want specifically the line art with 100% transparency around it. Like If I had started in photoshop with a backround layer and line art layer.
@lazychief69
you saved my work omg THANK YOU SO MUCH 😩👌
@rafaelcoelho3063
thanks, great video
@TheSerek1
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@Niffe
I had to go back a couple times to just understand what you were saying. It was too fast, and you spent a lot of time talking about why making the layer simply multiply wasn't enough.
@renadabdelkader4361
so unclear
@catherinmella7501
I did everything that you explained, but the only thing is that my image is black (entirely)
@TheArtofKAS
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
@esimamedova5406
This helped a lot. Thanks for such an useful video!
@procionedepresso
it doesn't let me fill it with the bucket
@effervescence5
This used to work perfectly for me, but recently even when I fill my lines in with black they come out gray. Is anyone else having this problem?
@Contraltissimo
This is a really really good one. 8D Thank you for this! ^_^