I am going to say something amazingly obvious yet obligatory, but as of this strip the way I color my daily strips has been altered. I use markers now! Prismacolor!
I… have no idea how I scanned them back then without blue pencil lines persisting. When you scan in B&W Lineart mode, the blue lines disappear, but in order to get these halftones, you gotta scan grayscale or color, and the pencil work still shows up then. So, I dunno, I guess I’ll, uh, play with the layers a bit. But I want to keep some of the texture of the markering intact, now that we’re all high-res, so you may see some blue poking in and around places as an editing compromise. You know, like when you try to remove voices from a single track recording while keeping the background music, and if you remove the voices entirely parts of the background music go missing, and so it ends up being preferable to leave occasional echoes of the voices in instead. It’ll be like that.
It’s okay. We’ll live.
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When I lived with my parents during high school and they left me alone for whatever reason, I made sure to sing as loud as I could throughout the house, knowing that no one would ask me to stop.
I scared the hell out of the dog, but it was totally worth it.
Seeing such serendipitous themes between today’s IW! and today’s DoA.
This is what Dorothy is trying to prevent.
…It’s kind of scary how well my thoughts and Walky’s match up sometimes.
See, if you hadn’t said anything, I never would’ve noticed the hints of blue in this strip, Willis.
I totally zoomed in just to see them.
I haven’t used photoshop for a while (I prefer manga studio now), but you should be able to get rid of the blue fairly easily.
If I’m remembering correctly, if you scan the art in color and then put a gray scale layer mask over the scanned image, photoshop will allow you to adjust how dark/light gray the colors translate to. So then you can make blue adjust to white, and get rid of the pencil marks.
(Hopefully this works and I’m not confusing it with the thing I do in Manga studio!)
or you could make a saturation adjustment layer and just drop it all the way down
The first place I lived on my own was in an extremely warm and tropical country. This was my motto.
What makes me super-jealous is how often the blues don’t match the inks at all. Those permanent lines are freehand.
Somehow I must learn this dark power and exploit it.
Just futz around with the levels/channels in photoshop a little! You should be ale to get rid of the blue line pretty easily
I don’t see any blue lines. Time to get new glasses.
I just noticed. Walky’s hair is see-through.
…huh. I always assumed the greys in these strips were done digitally.
Protip: Just desaturate the image. It’s greyscale anyhow, they’d blend right in. Won’t work for the Sunday color strips unfortunately…
Coloring aside, to me this strip always marks a turning point at which Its Walky! seemed to hit its stride. Which I guess means it’s only logical it would feature Walky clothesless.
Now that I think of it, what hardcover book would even hold Walky’s interest?
As Joe and his twinkies would say
“Its my chair now”
whoa, it’s true. if you zoom in with the navigator you can still see ghostly shades of blue.
I totally see the blue, but it’s pretty faint. It’s more obvious if you look at your monitor from a low angle.
Regular resolution, normal angle, blue’s still visible in one spot: Jason’s hair in panel 3.
…and right after posting that, I notice more blue almost everywhere.
I want this to be the theme for the next Slipshine.
I’m with Walky on this one.
I’ve had a bit of luck with the following: scan in color, turn off the blue and red channels, convert to grayscale.