How I Do It: Coloring

Now that our image is in digital form, we can use another Adobe Illustrator tool to allow us to color it in.  The Live Paint Bucket tool will convert our digital image into a series of vector paths that Adobe Illustrator can interpret and "paint" inside of.

Once your image is in Live Trace form, it is very easy to convert it to a colorable state.  Simply select the Live Paint Bucket Tool from the Toolbar, and click on your Live Trace image.  Once the process is complete, you can then select various colors and color in your comic.

Things are really starting to take shape now!  You probably can really see your comic coming to life and are getting pretty excited.  There are a few more minor details (adding text, cleaning up), which we will cover next week.

Below is the colored image of Comic 1.