Removing ink lines from a scanned illustration

[MarcyPB]

Hi all, Let's say I have a simple ink drawing that I want to fill (no problem so far) but then completely remove the outline. 

How do I cleanly do this for only this layer? Attached is a quick screen shot

[thomaso]

Hi MarcyPB,
welcome to the Affinity Forums!

There are various ways to get rid of the black contour. One would select the pixels, e.g. by color and with an according tolerance (menu Select > Select sample color), and either cut or recolor or fill them with a different color.

Alternatively you could do the entire coloring on a separate layer which gets the color fills based on selections of your scanned image layer below. To hide the black contour then you simply deselect its layer visibility.

[Lisbon]

Hi Marcy

Gradient maps are also one way of doing this.

[MarcyPB]

21 hours ago, thomaso said:

Hi MarcyPB,
welcome to the Affinity Forums!

There are various ways to get rid of the black contour. One would select the pixels, e.g. by color and with an according tolerance (menu Select > Select sample color), and either cut or recolor or fill them with a different color.

Alternatively you could do the entire coloring on a separate layer which gets the color fills based on selections of your scanned image layer below. To hide the black contour then you simply deselect its layer visibility.

Thank you. I am such an early/novice user, I'm going to have to google how to do these, I think. Thank you for helping. I'll start learning these methods.

[MarcyPB]

20 hours ago, Lisbon said:

Hi Marcy

Gradient maps are also one way of doing this.

Thank you! I'll check this out!