[link] - download this action first to the DESKTOP, ill show you how to load it (at the bottom) and use it!

Red bullet points are what you should see (as a help)
Blue bullet points are are the guide

Step 1

make your sketch or drawing
If its a pencil sketch make sure the major lines are really dark!
Scan in your sketch or inking at about 300-600 dpi
If you did an inking, use Black and White Scan, if its a sketch or other, use a Grayscale scan

Step 2

Open Photoshop and your image
Click *image* then *mode* then *RGB Colour*
Click *image* then *Adjustments* then *curves*
You should see a graph with a diagnal line from bottom left to top right..........
Make the graph into a S-shape by clicking on the line and draging it.
Fiddle around till you get your line art all dark and the distortion to a minimum

Step 3

Click *window* then *actions* click the blue arrow next to the file *Line Art Cleaner*
Click *Line-art Cleaner*
(the sub file under "Line Art Cleaner") it is positioned more to the left than the others
Click the *play* button (a little triangle symbol)
Click *ok* on the window that pops up
You will get a message to "Get out a big black brush (i use a big pencil) and cover all the lineart
with the transparency locked. see below
To lock the transparency, (it should already be done, but check anyway)
Click *window* then *layers*
Make sure "Clean Line-art" is the active layer by the little paint brush selection,
Or in CS2 making sure the "Clean Line-art" is in a blue selection (just click the name if its not)
There should be a button that says lock transparency, or lock transparent pixels, click it, and a padlock sholud appear
Go and cover the "Clean Line-art" layer in black
You should see all the Line Art in the marching ant selection go a bit darker!
Select *background Layer* and begin to colour
You will not be able to draw over the marching ant area (the black bits), but you can shade the other white areas

There you go, Good luck!

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How to load the Action
Download the action from the link at the top of the page, and save to desktop
Highlight the file on the desktop and press *Ctrl X* on the keyboard
Open Photoshop, click *window* then *actions* the click the little arrow under colse sign
Click Load actions
A box should open up,
Click in the box, in an empty space and press *Ctrl V*
Click the file that should now be there and click load

There you go guys,

Happy drawing

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