Anyone familiar with Adobe Photoshop Elements 6?

[ILove2Write]

I've been trying to figure out how to color my panels with Elements since it's too expensive for me to get the $600 program. Anyone know where the "Line-Art" channel is? I've been going crazy trying to find it. I bought a book that takes you step by step through coloring and so far everything that it has had has been in this program. I only hope Line Art is as well.

Help!

[sunandshadow]

Have you tried Gimp? It's free and similar to Photoshop.

Line art channel? When I've colored in photoshop or gimp I put the lineart in it's own layer (bottom layer if it is scanned and has a white background, top layer if it is digitally inked and has a transparent background). But a layer isn't the same as a channel. There are approximately 4 color channels per layer, depending whether you are using RGB/alpha coloring or CMYK coloring. Personally I don't use channels for much of anything.

[ILove2Write]

Thanks for the info. I've never heard of Gimp. I'll have to check it out, but I'm assuming you haven't had any trouble with bugs?

[sunandshadow]

Bugs? No. Gimp is the biggest most well-respected opensource art program there is, a LOT of people have donated labor to exterminate bugs and add features to it, it's more or less as good as Photoshop.

[8thSamurai]

Oh boy.

There is no mystical 'line art' button. (Nor are there 'make this good' buttons, or 'color this perfectly' buttons.)

Usually, I import the scan of line-art and make that the background layer, or just draw directly in photoshop.

Gimp has the exact same functionality as PS, and is a very highly regarded open source piece of software. I can't think of one digital artist who hasn't at least heard of it...