Introduction

Aight! So the last tutorial I posted was quite an embarrassment in terms I got the title completely wrong-

ANYWHO! So here’s a proper tutorial focused on the Autocolor feature of CSP, without hope you find this useful~~

Lets keep it simple and easy, gois

For starters, lets assume you have your clean lineart ready to get your groove on. What you want to do is use the ‘magic wand’ tool and select the outer area of the lineart. Since I have two characters here, I leave one of the characters deselected, depending on whichever I want to work on first.

For that I use the ‘selection brush’.

 

With the BG and the character selected I ‘invert’ the selection.

After selection (you can do this step before selection as well) you go to the lineart layer and then you set it as ‘reference layer’.

After setting it as the reference layer, I make another new layer beneath it and start filling in the colors roughly, I add a lighter color on the hair as a shine so that it makes a good shade when processed in autocolor.

 

(Repeat this step when having more characters after selecting them separately so that the colors are kept distinguished and clean).

After filling in the rough colors, go to ‘edit’ on the tool bar and you’ll find ‘Colorize’ from which you will select ‘use hint image and colorize’.

And viola! There you have it! (I repeated the same steps with the other character on separate layers.

Notice how using the selection tool kept the colors from breaking out of the lines and spreading out? Its a neat simple trick, saves plenty time in erasing it out or working on making it soft enough to be invisible.

I then work on fixing the colors now given to me after colorization with the same palette now provided. I use the dropper tool to select the colors and the blur tool to blend them whenever possible.

I paint the eyes on separate layer cuz yes, precious. Everything’s in its place lol.

After that I start adding shades, here I used the same color palette in the base rather than other colors with my shading layer set to ‘multiply’.

 

After shading, choosing a lightly darker color from the one selected for shading from color swatched, I line the shadows for a firmer look.

 

For real? That’s all there is to colorization, its amazing for quick work and saves a LOT of time than to color in lines and fill by the shape.