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coloring animation frames in photoshop

I've been doing this process of hand drawing my animation on paper and then doing my "ink and paint" in flash. But recently I've been seeing people take their cleaned up animation into photoshop and just color on top of the pencils. then they export the colored frames into after effects.

So my question is this: I already know how to color in photoshop. what I want to know is how are they making the background of their frames transparent? Are they just using the magic wand tool to select the white of the background and delete it? if so, how are they selecting it without getting those ugly artifacts?

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Perhaps they creating it directly in PS.

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basically put the layer with the drawing on the top layer, have your colouring layers under it, right click on the top layer (lines) and click blending options, select 'multiply' from the drop down box.

now you can colour on the layers below and see whut your doing

hope i explained it ok

basically put the layer with the drawing on the top layer, have your colouring layers under it, right click on the top layer (lines) and click blending options, select 'multiply' from the drop down box.

now you can colour on the layers below and see whut your doing

yeah, i know how to do that, but when you flatten it to export it, the background of that frame is going to be white. I want to know how to keep the background of the frame transparent after I export.

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If the background is transparent when you're done coloring, then just export it as a PNG with an alpha channel. That should do it.