Photoshop help !!!??? ?

Question

I drew a person in photoshop and he's on one layer separate from the background layer , I haven't colored him in so there's only lines no color. And I want to put a background in. But when I do put a background picture in, The background shows through the guy (As if he was colored by the background.) I want to be able to put in a background then color the guy. I have no I dea how to do that!

Answer 1

In your layers window you can add new layers and move them around. If you want the lines on top, simply make it a top layer. ie:

lines

color

background color

background

Answer 2

You can add your background, which will be on another layer. You can hide that layer while you color the guy. Click the eye icon next to the layer thumbnail; that will hide that layer. You might also want to lock that layer (click on the lock icon with the layer selected that you want to lock). Now create another layer (or more than one) under the layer with the lines for the guy. Put your color on that new layer. You can drag layers in the layers palette, so if you need to put the layer(s) for your color between the layer with the lines and the background layer, that's easy to do. Just drag them where you want them (layers are like a stack of sheets of paper, and all you are doing is rearranging the stack). That background was showing through because with just lines, the rest of it is transparent pixels, so you will see any layer underneath. You will want to consider using more than one layer for the colors if you want to block them in roughly first, so you can control the colors without them running into each other/changing each other.

When you want to put the colors together, you can always select the layers you want to merge, then go to Layer>merge. It will bring the selected layers together into one layer. You can then work the colors altogether. Note as you work, especially if you start merging layers, you will want to do a Save As, so you can have the earlier versions still available if you need them.