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You love the doodles that are available. You’d love to color them to match your layout or craft.
As I am sitting here, creating my BBQ doodle kit, I had come across a very easy technique to make color so very easy.
The results are fantastic.
Create your first doodle color section:
Open a blank file
Place doodle in file
With the doodle layer being the top layer, create a layer below for each part of the watermelon you will work with. For instance, the illustration on the left shows the layer I’ve created for the green “rind”.
Using one of PSE’s round brushes, paint the rind. (TIP: be sure to play with the opacity setting as you roughly add approximate colors to your layer. Don’t worry about staying within lines. Don’t worry about the colors blending together.That will come later.
Blend your painted colors together
To blend the colors together, use your Gaussian Blur (FILTER – BLUR – GAUSSIAN BLUR). See how your strokes have now blended together.
NOTE: the blur will make your coloring transparent. This means that any background paper will show through. We will later do a step to ensure your element does not remain transparent or opaque.
Erase excess colors from inside the doodle (colors that go over the lines):
We need to remove the colors from the appropriate sections. Let’s only worry about the color overlaps inside the doodle for now. At the end we’ll remove the colors from the outside edges.
You could use your eraser, but…
I find the quickest way is to use your MAGIC WAND on the DOODLE LAYER, to grab the areas where you want to delete the color. In this case we want to keep the green in the rind, but not in the fruit part.
So I’ve used my MAGIC WAND to form the marching ants INSIDE the fruit part of the doodle layer.
Press delete on the color layer (in this case, the rind layer).
You MUST remove the “marching ants” created by the MAGIC WAND. To do this, press [CTRL [D].
Create and color another part of your doodle:
Create a new layer for the next part of your coloring. Notice my pink layer in the illustration on the left.
Using a round brush, different colors, sizes and opacities, color the melon.
Our coloring actually looks pretty good without the blur. So you can choose to blur or not to blur. I’ll still blur. You can see the results in the next illustration.
Remove color from outside the doodle:
On the doodle layer, use your MAGIC WAND on the outside edge of the doodle. You will see “marching ants” appear surrounding the around outside of the doodle.
Select the RIND layer and press the [DELETE BUTTON]
Select the MELON layer and press the delete button
You can see the before and after results in the illustrations below
Don’t forget to press [CTRL] [D] to remove the marching ants when you are done these steps. What happens if you forget? Well, the marching ants block out parts of your document, and you will find yourself wondering why something simple like the paint brush no longer works.
Add a new blank layer for the seeds, color, blur if you want, and delete the excess as show in the steps above.
Create a solid white doodle background so that your colored doodle is not opaque nor transparent:
Create a layer, below all of the colored layers. This will be your solid white doodle background.
Turn off all of the color layers and white background so that you can see only your doodle.
Use your magic wand outside of your doodle. You will see the “marching ants”.
Click on SELECT – INVERSE to invert the MAGIC WAND selection to cover the inside of the doodle.
On the new layer, use your PAINT BUCKET and fill in the shape of the doodle which is created by your MAGIC WAND. See the illustration on the left.
Remember to press [CTRL] [D] to remove the marching ants after you have your shaped white background.
The completed item:
Turn back on the colored layers.
Save your doodle as a .PNG (FILE – SAVE AS - .PNG).
Use your .PNG file in your layouts or kits!
Download a PDF version of this tutorial HERE
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