: How to create a solid color background for a brush drawing? Imagine I draw something with the brush tool in Photoshop CS5. I want to save the drawing as .png, but I want it to have a

@Cofer715

The easiest way might be to:


Make a background layer fill it with white.
With your line drawn character on the top layer, flatten the image.
Magic Wand the white on the outside of the character and hit delete.


This should leave you with the white character!
Hope that works!

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@Turnbaugh909

The basic answer you already know... Do it by hand. That's how everyone does it if they are trying to fill brush strokes.

You can try the flood fill tool but that often requires you to work on the same layer as your key line (Black outline) and it has a tendency to feather edges requiring you to manually correct those anyway.

Often what is done is that the key line layer is set to Multiply and color fills are painted (manually) on a layer below the key line. This method ensures you don't mistakenly mess up the key line.



Ultimately, you have to do it by hand. There's really not any other solid method. And if for animation, you have to do each frame.

I don't really understand the issue with small areas (legs). You can zoom in when you paint. If you find it difficult painting with a mouse there are tablets and other input devices designed to make painting easier, but they do cost.

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@Pierce403

I think the best solution for your need is to use masks.
Just put a background and select with mask the drawing, delete the background... And you have the draw with background.

Is what you need or I'm wrong?

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