How to colour in the doodles [Archive]

Possum

11-28-2005, 05:30 AM

Hi everyone.

I posted up a layout I did useing Angie's lovely doodles and I actually coloured them in myself as I had seen this done by Angie herself and really wanted to try it out ever since...

I actually really had trouble working out just "how" to colour them in. And seeing as I got a few nice replys on my layout for sharing the technique I used on the splotches I did on may layout as well....

I thought I might post up how I did the colouring in on here - and maybe others have a different way of doing it too....

For mine I tried lots of ways - until I finally worked out the quickest way to do it was to open up a layer underneath the doodles and then just colour in on that... so if you went over the edge you wheren't drawing on the outline of the doodle. Then once done - it's just a matter of merging them down together.

Hope that makes sense LOL and maybe saves someone trying to work it out and doing it all the long ways first like me ROFL

ChristineS

11-28-2005, 07:51 AM

great idea!!

bucket fill works too

Possum

11-28-2005, 08:53 AM

I thought that would be the way to do it actually - but I found that it didn't work all that well as it wouldn't fill 'totaly' or it would fill the out line - to stop that I then tried just sleciting little areas with the section tool and then useing the bucket to fill then - but still need to use the paint brush to get areas it missed, and the whole slection thing was very fiddley.

but then maybe it was just the way I was doing it LOL.

scraprascal

11-28-2005, 09:52 AM

One thing I've done previously for a 'soft' stamped look--is just enlarge it and use a medium soft round brush and just "paint" inside the doodles (on a separate layer). This gives kind of a free form look, kind of like stamping or coloring in with watercolor pencils! Loving all the doodles!! You're the queen, Peta--you've got using them down to a science!! :D

anotheraddict

11-28-2005, 11:08 AM

these are great ideas! Thanks for sharing.

angleigh

11-28-2005, 11:10 AM

I usually use the soft round brush also to just lightly "paint' inside.

Possum

11-29-2005, 04:53 AM

HAHA thanks Jenn!!! - I love your suggestion might have to give that a try next time! :)

I love reading how others do things - as I know I've got the worst habbit of doing things the hard way!! ROFL.

Happy2bhere

12-18-2005, 10:49 AM

Wow, thanks for the tip. I love those doodles!

happyrobyn

12-19-2005, 07:44 PM

Thanks guys! I've been avoiding doing this because I didn't know how. Now I'll have to give it a try.

sorashell

12-25-2005, 01:30 PM

I also found a fun way to do it was to use the doodle like a templete. Drag a sheet of whatever papers you're working with under the doodle, use the magic wand too on the doodle layer in whatever space you want to fill, make the paper layer active, choose Select>Midify>Expand it a few pixels, Select Inverse and Delete. It sounds like alot of work but you can choose quite a few areas at one time. Here's an example from my gallery here~

http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3853&cat=500&ppuser=2022

It was actually really fun to do!

UnDecided

12-25-2005, 02:19 PM

I also found a fun way to do it was to use the doodle like a templete. Drag a sheet of whatever papers you're working with under the doodle, use the magic wand too on the doodle layer in whatever space you want to fill, make the paper layer active, choose Select>Midify>Expand it a few pixels, Select Inverse and Delete. It sounds like alot of work but you can choose quite a few areas at one time. Here's an example from my gallery here~

http://www.scrapartist.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3853&cat=500&ppuser=2022

It was actually really fun to do!

WOW!! What a fun way to use them! You're so creative.... :)