{"id":9785,"date":"2019-02-17T05:06:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T05:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/dazposer\/?p=9785"},"modified":"2019-02-17T05:06:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T05:06:22","slug":"multifill-2-0-for-photoshop-a-line-art-autofill-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/2019\/02\/17\/multifill-2-0-for-photoshop-a-line-art-autofill-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"MultiFill 2.0 for Photoshop – a line-art autofill tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

“MultiFill is always free to use.” Hmmm… I like the sound of that. Even better, as of January 2019 it is now in Multifill version 2.0<\/a>. <\/p>\n

What is MultiFill? It’s a 64-bit Photoshop plugin (CS6 and higher) that auto-fills black-and-white line-art with random flat colour. “Like the inked line-art made by Poser’s Comic Book Preview mode?”, you ask. Yes, indeed. <\/p>\n

The drawbacks are three… <\/p>\n

* it doesn’t make sensible choices of colour.
\n* it only works on black inks on pure white, not black ink on transparency.
\n* thus you can’t easily separate the colour flats from the inks. But there’s a partial way to get around the latter.<\/p>\n

It’s advantages are also three…<\/p>\n

* it’s blindingly quick, compared to Krita. A fraction of a second and it’s finished.
\n* it’s free and runs in Photoshop.
\n* it has a simple interface.<\/p>\n

Install. Find the plugin under Filters | Peltmade. Duplicate your Poser Comic Book Inks layer, make a new white layer, and merge the inks with it. This is the layer you’ll run MultiFill on. Invoke MultiFill. I found these settings good…<\/p>\n

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Though you can choose from a long list of colour combos…<\/p>\n

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A fraction of a second after being run, it’s done the business. You no longer have to worry about gaps in Poser’s line-art. Just paintbucket on top of the flat colour islands to re-colour. Which is still going to take some time, and because the lines are on the same layer as the colours, you’ll sometimes hit the lines with the paintbucket. <\/p>\n

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However, if you place your original inks layer on top of the MultiFill-ed layer, then accidentally hitting the lines on the lower layer will appear to have no effect. That’s the workaround I talked about above.<\/p>\n

However, I think Krita 4.x is to be preferred. Krita…<\/p>\n

* is iterative… you can build toward the correct paint-in while making small corrections.
\n* keeps inks and colour flats on their own layers.
\n* can work cleanly with ‘white knocked-out’ line-art inks.
\n* doesn’t produce so many hard-to-reach little niggly bits of colour.
\n* has a ‘restore transparency to the background colour’ option.<\/p>\n

See my Tutorial: How to autocolour Poser lineart with Krita 4.x<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, what MultiFill 3.0 could do, to work with 3D output from the likes of Poser, would be to sample a colour layer directly below it (i.e.: the standard 3d colour render). Then autofill the line-art with flats keyed to the sampled colours. Of course, Photoshop’s native Cutout filter can do something similar with a plain colour render from Poser, but I’m imagining that MultiFill 3.0 could offer something far cleaner in terms of pure flat colour islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“MultiFill is always free to use.” Hmmm… I like the sound of that. Even better, as of January 2019 it is now in Multifill version 2.0. What is MultiFill? It’s a 64-bit Photoshop plugin (CS6 and higher) that auto-fills black-and-white line-art with random flat colour. “Like the inked line-art made by Poser’s Comic Book Preview […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,11,13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-comics","category-companion-software","category-freebies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/dazposer\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}