Okay. After you've scanned your picture, what do you do to color it? And what do you do when you add speach? Just wanted to know how you guys do it is all, please tell me though.

I won't go through every detail, but in a broad sense here's what I do...

Once you've got your scanned art in Photoshop, I separate my line art in a separate layer (by selecting the lines and copying them into another layer).

In a layer beneath the line art, I add my colors (personally, I tend to put backgrounds, main colors, and highlights/shadows on separate layers, but different people do that differently). And I color all the art, including the parts that will most likely be covered by speech balloons, just in case I change my mind.

I save my art in a .jpg, then pull the art into Macromedia Flash. Then, in a layer on top of the art, do my text and speech balloons (I find that because Flash does vector graphics, the text is much much cleaner there than in Photoshop).

Hope that helps!

ironhand
Okay. After you've scanned your picture, what do you do to color it? And what do you do when you add speach? Just wanted to know how you guys do it is all, please tell me though.

Set the B/W Lineart on its own layer. Set the layer to Multiply. Create a new layer. Put that layer underneath the B/W layer. Color my flats. Make a new layer between the B/W and the flat color and color my shading. Viola. Colors.

For speech, I open the file up in illustrator and use that to create my dialog and my speech balloons and text boxes.

Save the file. Make a .pdf of the file. And then go back to photoshop to make the pdf into a pre-formatted .jpg that I can upload to here and to my myspace blog.

BTW, the DC Comics Guide to Coloring and Lettering gives a very detailed step by step on how to prepare lineart in photoshop and how to color it. I've glossed over and skipped a few of their steps. I've seen this guide for sale at a bunch of different comic shops and am pretty sure it's available on amazon.com. It at least gives you a basic standard (or knowledge of how one mainstream company does it). And from there you can experiment and do your own thing and find what makes you comfortable.