How To Make Fire Alpaca Brushes Colored

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FireAlpaca is a free illustration and photograph-editing software compatible with both Mac and Windows. Lots of people apply this to starting time out their digital art career or hobby, and so it's useful to know all the tools available. Coloring within the lines is important for a clean expect, and can exist done with the Magic Wand tool or the Bucket tool.

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Create a new file. Go upward to "File" on the top left of your screen and select "New" from the dropdown menu. It should exist the first choice.
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Choose your file specifics in the window you opened. You lot can choose your background color from a color bicycle, set up your paradigm size, and more than. You don't need anything fancy, and then you can just become ahead to printing "OK" to motility on with the default settings.
- The default settings are set to "Standard". If you're planning to utilize a comic outline, go to the peak of the file window and choose "Comic".
- This tutorial has prepare the background colour to white. The default is a clear checkerboard pattern.
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Draw your paradigm outline. It can exist one item, two items, 3 items, annihilation. Use the pen tool or another clear drawing tool to make your outline. It's advisable to use a darker tool, such every bit the pen, because it'll show through easier when using translucent layers (described later on).
- It can be a crude sketch for now, as this is an outline.
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Open up the Layer menu. Go to the meridian of your FireAlpaca window or the middle acme of your screen. Click "Window" and select "Layer". A window showing your current layer should open up up.
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Create a new layer. Get to the top left of your screen and select "Layer" and "Add" from the dropdown carte du jour. A new layer should appear on your Layer window you opened in the terminal pace.
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Proper noun your layers. Go to the Layer window and double click on a layer. A window should pop upward and you'll accept the gamble to name it. Click "OK" to save your changes.
- This is optional but useful to articulate up confusion, especially when you have multiple layers at once.
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Activate Onion Pare Style. In the Layer window, click the layer you want the last drawing to be on, as opposed to the outline you originally made. Go to the top middle of the screen and select "View", and then "Onion Skin Way" from the dropdown menu.
- Elevate the final drawing layer to a higher place the outline layer if not like that already, in the Layer window. This ways your final drawing will be placed above the outline, which is what you want.
- The outline layer y'all made should appear faint pink in the final drawing layer.
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Make your cartoon in the final cartoon layer. Use the faint outline as a guide. Add necessary details but don't colour still.
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Clean the lines. In gild to use the Bucket or Magic Wand tool, your image should have lines that are all connected to each other. Otherwise, the software volition not exist able to recognize where your paradigm ends and your background starts. Zoom in by scrolling your mouse to see if there are any breaks in the lines.
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Delete your outline layer and end Onion Skin Mode. Select the outline layer from the Layer Window. Become to the meridian of the screen and click "Layer", and then "Delete" from the menu. Stop Onion Skin Mode by going dorsum to "View" and selecting "Onion Peel Fashion" again.

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Select a colour from the Color window. Go to the summit of the screen and click "Window", then "Color" from the menu. A window should open; choose your desired colour hither.
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Select the Bucket tool. A gray selection bar inside of your FireAlpaca window (the saucepan tool is non in the Brush window) contains a lot of tools. Choose the icon that looks similar a tipped saucepan.
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Tap the section of the image you want painted. If your lines are neat and connected, the Bucket tool volition cover a section with paint.
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Clean up the paint. Sometimes, when using a thick pen for the terminal outlines, the Bucket tool volition go out a white outline inside of the image. Switch back to the Pen tool in your gray pick bar and clean this up. Zoom in past scrolling your mouse to get the smaller details.

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Select the Magic Wand tool. Inside the gray pick bar in the FireAlpaca window, there's an icon that looks like an exploding firework stick. Click this.
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Click the area outside of your drawing. This will illuminate your drawing in blue, while beingness surrounded past moving dots. If this doesn't happen, your lines are not connected. Press Command+Z to deselect, and go back in to make full in the lines.
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Create a new layer. As before, go dorsum to the "Layer" option on the meridian left of your screen and select "Add". A new layer should bear witness in your Layer window, which you can then name.
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Name the new layer and drag information technology below the current layer. In the Layer window, double tap the new layer and name it. Just drag it below the current layer (that y'all used Magic Wand on) and then that the color will stay inside the lines.
- Now you should be on the new layer yous created. The blue image from the Magic Wand should still be there.
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Select the Pen tool. On the greyness selection bar, click the first icon. This is important, considering if you endeavour to draw with the Magic Wand notwithstanding on, your image will finish up beingness dragged effectually and distorted.
- Your cursor will look like the Magic Wand icon if you are still using this tool.
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Select your preferred castor. Become to the eye meridian of your screen and select "Window", and then "Castor" from the bill of fare. The Brush window should open and give y'all options on a brush design. Watercolor works well to color, but you can play around with the settings.
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Select a color from the Color window. Open the window from "Window" and "Colour" if you have airtight it.
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Invert the Magic Wand choice. Go to the tiptop of your screen and select "Select" and then "Inverse" from the menu. The bluish Magic Wand pick should now be outside of your image and leave your cartoon white (or the color of your groundwork).
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Color! Y'all should now be able to scribble your color on without worrying nigh it going out out of the lines. You can add shading and details without going over the edges.
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Deselect the Magic Wand. At the acme of your screen, select "Select" and so "Deselect" in the menu. Now your drawing should appear, cleanly colored!
- The outline volition be visible (if the outline layer is placed above the colour layer), because it is on a split up layer. You can delete this outline if you desire, but it's useful to show fine details.
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Command+Z volition undo an activity. The delete key will delete everything on that layer.
If you lot click on a line with the Bucket tool, the line itself volition change colour.
You only have to make a new layer in Magic Wand if you want the outside lines of your image to exist preserved. If you lot don't make a new layer, the color will encompass the terminal lines.
This tutorial was done in Mac, merely is basically the same in Windows. The options (such as File, Window, and View) are in the FireAlpaca window itself instead of the top of the desktop like Mac.
If you lot want to separately color two items that are connected together, you may demand to create separate layers for each detail. Onion Skin Style is useful hither.
You can also use the Magic Wand tool to move an prototype. Just select the image as usual, merely don't select Changed. While withal using the Magic Wand tool, drag your cursor.

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