Line work in photoshop

[Airbrush Art]

No Maybe this is the problem ,I do not want my line turn into a negative shape.
All I asked was how do you take the white background out of a line drawing that has been scanned so that if I want to put a color on a different layer ,it will show through so that the line art is sitting on a colored background instead of white.
Lets forget it . An art director of mine gave me the easy solution which I described in the earlier messages.
Thanks for the help.

[Matt Shadis]

ok, I know you gave up but there is a way easier way to do all of this, it’s a feature of Photoshop that many people don’t seem to know about and is made just for your case.

Take the line art layer and place it above the gradient layer.

Double click to the right of the line art layers name in the layers palette, just that blank white space that is there. This will open Layer Styles.

In the layer styles dialog you should be on the section labeled ‘Blending Options:Default’. If not, just click there in the left column.

In that portion of the dialog at the bottom there is a section labeled ‘Blend If: Gray’ below this are two sliders.

In the first slider (labeled ‘This Layer’) grab the white triangle and move it to the left.

Poof! All the white is now transparent. You may have some gray around the edges of your line art so hold down the Option key (Alt on a PC) and grab that same white triangle again, now it will break into two parts. Adjust these as needed until your lines look smooth and contain only the parts you want.

Some levels may help here as well if you can’t get any of the fringing off, just eliminate the white in levels and you should be cool.

Hope this helps.

-Matt

[Vincent Rosati]

THX. I wasn’t aware of that. : )

[Scott Butzer]

Grey scale/or rgb
Channels-top bar-grey: command select layer
Go back to normal layers
Create new layer
Invert
Fill with color

My bro sent me this, and so long as the line work is solid (ink) this works like a charm.