Sketching over a reference picture

[ben-o]

The main use for the image-based color mode is obviously to pick colors but here is a very simple trick to use it as an actual drawing reference:

Pick any brush you like, switch to image-based color and load a picture:



You can rotate and place it as you want in your canvas and adjust the opacity of the displayed source picture.

And here is the trick: in the "Color Shifting" tab, check enable and push the value slider all the way to the left. That will simply make any picked color black:



Then just draw over your picture:



Once you're done, be sure to uncheck the "enable" box in the color shifting tab or any color you use with that brush afterwards will be black too!

[u2bleank]

Nice tricks / workaround !
But the BlackInk's coder MUST implement a easier way to do it ....

[silouart]

How do you add an image in to a Black Ink document? There aren't enough tools for this?

[lmnd]

How do you add an image in to a Black Ink document? There aren't enough tools for this?

Select a brush, in the color menu select "image-based color", then leftclick on the area on the right and select an image from your harddrive.

[4ace]

You can allways convert any image to .PNG (using other program) and open it on Black ink... just a litle more work

[ben-o]

This is a just a workaround using current Black Ink's tools. When we'll be able to import a picture into the document as a real layer this will become outdated.

[scobles]

Thanks for this tip; it'll come in handy for making customised images for Christmas cards later in the year

[scrotieflapwack]

This is a just a workaround using current Black Ink's tools. When we'll be able to import a picture into the document as a real layer this will become outdated.

Wow can't wait! This is a nice workaround for now. Can't wait for the new update and features!

[rambomuttnutts]

Ah excellent! I was looking for a way to import a reference image the other day.

A bit of a long way around, but thanks a bunch

[tal-kai]

You can allways convert any image to .PNG (using other program) and open it on Black ink... just a litle more work

Yea. One way I found was [1] open the .png file on black ink, [2] copy/cut it, then [3] open another black ink document and then [4] paste it on the new document (on a separate layer). In the case of having multiple images, repeat steps [1] and [2], then skip to [4] (make sure to save the doc from [4] since you will have to reopen it again to add the additional images).