Coloring in Photoshop help please?

[Victorelle]

ok so I just got started on Photoshop and Ive been watching LOTS of tutorials but what I cant figure out and this makes me mad is the magic wand coloring trick it doesnt work for me and its making me made cause I dont feel like coloring the whole thing by hand just so that I can finish it I want to be FASTER!!! so I was wouldering if someone could help me a bit cause its really bothering me... it does this circle thing instead of the whole screen... so help would be loved (I use Photoshop CS 4)

[Saturo]

This may seem redundant, but do you have the correct layer selected?

[Victorelle]

This may seem redundant, but do you have the correct layer selected?

yep Ive made sure of that

[Chimera]

lol yea thats the issue i have the most-- doing something to the background layer when im actually on a totally different layer and not noticing.. >.< um, otherwise-- maybe google the question and see if you find and answers about it? thats how i learned to make backgrounds transparent in GIMP when it was buging out majorly

Edit: Have you checked the Tolerence? that determines how much of the picture is being selected, incase thats what your trying to figure out.. im just starting to get the hang of my programs one feat at a time haha ^-^

[Victorelle]

lol yea thats the issue i have the most-- doing something to the background layer when im actually on a totally different layer and not noticing.. >.< um, otherwise-- maybe google the question and see if you find and answers about it? thats how i learned to make backgrounds transparent in GIMP when it was buging out majorly

Edit: Have you checked the Tolerence? that determines how much of the picture is being selected, incase thats what your trying to figure out.. im just starting to get the hang of my programs one feat at a time haha ^-^

Tolerence wheres that at?

[cowmuflage]

Um if you magic wand the picture and I think it's inverse it will cover the picture instead of the stuff around it. Sorry I'm new to PS just learning it myself. Toon boom animare pro on the other hand I'm good at.

[Victorelle]

Um if you magic wand the picture and I think it's inverse it will cover the picture instead of the stuff around it. Sorry I'm new to PS just learning it myself. Toon boom animare pro on the other hand I'm good at.

what was that last part

[cowmuflage]

On sorry its ment to be animate XD was that what you where asking? or am I just not helping at all.

[Victorelle]

On sorry its ment to be animate XD was that what you where asking? or am I just not helping at all.

I guess XD I ment tho whole last sentence

[cowmuflage]

Er toonboom animate pro is a colouring program made for animations basicly.

The magic wand tool can inverse what you click on IE say you have the blank space around a drawing selected and you clcik inverse it will then select the drawing instead of the blank space. Its hard to explan atm I do have a step by step guide but its at uni.

[Victorelle]

Er toonboom animate pro is a colouring program made for animations basicly.

The magic wand tool can inverse what you click on IE say you have the blank space around a drawing selected and you clcik inverse it will then select the drawing instead of the blank space. Its hard to explan atm I do have a step by step guide but its at uni.

ok Thank youuuuuuu

[lilatha]

Photoshop you say!
Well for colouring don't use the magic wand, it leaves a white line and you have to go back and colour it again anyways as annoying as it is I find colouring by hand (or mouse) alot better and sometimes I just cheat!
There are loads of ways of colouring on Photoshop which are better then using the wand tool, you can do your linework on a transparent layer and under that you can do your colouring. Or make a new layer, if your linework happens to be on a white background, and change its settings to 'Mutiply' means the line work will still be ontop of the colours
If you do choose to use the wand tool make sure your ready to zoom in and clean up any mistakes it makes!

After I've came back from the shops I'll give visuals to what I'm talking about.
Or if anyone knows a good free video editing programme that has a speed up option on it I will record myself drawing (since the video programme on Windows 7 sucks D:)

[Victorelle]

Thanks guys I got my dad whos a computer teacher so help... I was useing the wrong wand option thanks tho ^^

http://torame.deviantart.com/#/d3d45vk
http://torame.deviantart.com/#/d3d4bdk

[Chimera]

^ That pic is reeeeally cute i love it

[Victorelle]

here's the Final

http://torame.deviantart.com/#/d3d530z

[Chimera]

:O i loooooooove it <333