Kurt Michael Russell - comic book colorist, digital artist, and art instructor

► http://www.coloringcomics.com In this video, I'll show you how to clean up pencil lines in scanned art to get your lines ready for colors! If you'll looking to learn more, check out my complete Photoshop digital coloring course--50+ real-time video tutorials--10 hours of lessons (with downloadable presets for my brushes, tools, actions, and color swatches).

How to Clean Up Scanned Line Art in Photoshop using Levels

K. Michael Russell January 19, 2016

I was asked about this by a few people, so I thought I throw together a quick video to show you how to clean up your line art with Levels in Photoshop. This is not something I've really had to do very much professionally since usually the artist does it, but it's good to know!

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I've also started using Procreate on the iPad Pro recently. You can check it out here:

PC Setup

I get questions about my PC hardware often. My setup is completely overkill for coloring, but I do a lot of video editing, so keep that in mind! Here's my current setup:

Tablet

I am currently using a Wacom Intuos Art (Medium) & an iPad Pro 12.9 (2017)

I manage my YouTube channel with Tubebuddy. Great product for bulk copy editing and bulk annotation and card updating.

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