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Colored Outlines in Krita
4 years ago
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I'm sure that I'm not the first person to figure this out, but I have a quick way to do colored outlines in Krita that I thought I would share. Something like this could be done in Photoshop or GIMP, no doubt. It's not particularly complicated, but it does require a couple things ahead of time.
1. Your outlines must be on another layer
2. Your outlines should be black, or at least a solid, dark color
3. You've already done your color fill
You should be looking at something like this.
https://d.furaffinity.net/art/mepht.....phthecat_a.jpg
Next, set the layer blending mode for the outline layer to "Grain Merge", this is why a dark outline color (black, preferably) is important.
Next, hold down the control key and click on the little preview of your outline layer in the layer selection docker. This will place a selection around your outline, like this.
https://d.furaffinity.net/art/mepht.....phthecat_b.jpg
From here, select the your fill layer, pick the appropriate color using the eyedropper tool (in Krita, hold control and click with the brush tool to pick up a color), and begin to color in your outlines. Change your selected color as necessary. It's very important that you only draw on the fill layer. If you draw on the outline layer, you'll know immediately because it'll look very wrong. At the end, you should have something that looks like this.
https://d.furaffinity.net/art/mepht.....phthecat_c.jpg
It's pretty easy to tell where you have and haven't filled in by looking at the color of the outline. If you add a white layer underneath everything, you'll see the white bleed through the outline where it hasn't been filled. The marching ants effect of the selection box can make it difficult to see how the outline looks zoomed out, you can hide the selection box visibility in the layer selection docker. Note, however, that this will disable the selection with respect to the brush, remember to turn the visibility back on.
1. Your outlines must be on another layer
2. Your outlines should be black, or at least a solid, dark color
3. You've already done your color fill
You should be looking at something like this.
https://d.furaffinity.net/art/mepht.....phthecat_a.jpg
Next, set the layer blending mode for the outline layer to "Grain Merge", this is why a dark outline color (black, preferably) is important.
Next, hold down the control key and click on the little preview of your outline layer in the layer selection docker. This will place a selection around your outline, like this.
https://d.furaffinity.net/art/mepht.....phthecat_b.jpg
From here, select the your fill layer, pick the appropriate color using the eyedropper tool (in Krita, hold control and click with the brush tool to pick up a color), and begin to color in your outlines. Change your selected color as necessary. It's very important that you only draw on the fill layer. If you draw on the outline layer, you'll know immediately because it'll look very wrong. At the end, you should have something that looks like this.
https://d.furaffinity.net/art/mepht.....phthecat_c.jpg
It's pretty easy to tell where you have and haven't filled in by looking at the color of the outline. If you add a white layer underneath everything, you'll see the white bleed through the outline where it hasn't been filled. The marching ants effect of the selection box can make it difficult to see how the outline looks zoomed out, you can hide the selection box visibility in the layer selection docker. Note, however, that this will disable the selection with respect to the brush, remember to turn the visibility back on.
