Tutorial: Isolating Lineart

often you just need your lineart to be transparent, so you can do stuff to it like colored lines, outer glow, etc.

here's some short, tiny videos (less than 2mb!) on some ways to do it. all of them will produce more or less the same result - it's down to your preference (or what PS version you have)

in my own experience, the direct to mask method gets it done the fastest. you can also download these vids from mega

quick mask method

mask channel method

direct to mask method

see the finished ling xiaoyu art here