Hugh T

Oh, dear. I'm another one with comic book creation in mind. Have come here after not finding 'bitmap' among the new document options. What more can I add? Other posters have done a great job explaining the need for a way to create 1-bit art, in various scenarios. In fact, this is so basic is it that it didn't even occur to me that it would be a missing feature. So why so useful for comics? Two predominant reasons: 1. Linework needs to be clean black, because it is used to trap the colours underneath it. One clean trapping colour. 2. When colouring in, adjoining colours need to be aliased. This process is called 'flatting'. There's a pair of Photoshop plugins that make this straightforward. They (Multifill and Flatten Pro) first fill areas between lines with random colours, then extend those colours to meet each other, at aliased edges. Recolouring those areas then becomes a simple matter of dropping new colours into those areas. No messy anti-aliased edges that don't change colour properly as adjoining colours change. All artwork is nice and clean for press. So Andy, you’ve said ‘never’, and by saying ‘I’ll be honest’ I guess you’re emphasising that it’s just not possible. I’m very sorry to hear that.