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Add colour to digital artworks instantly with new free web service

Oona McGee Feb 2, 2017
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Artists in Japan and around the world are raving about this handy new tool.

The world of digital editing and design can be a difficult one to navigate for beginners more used to working with traditional materials like paint and paper. But now there’s an easy way to create digital masterpieces, thanks to a new web service that adds colour to your sketches at the touch of a button.

Developed by mechanical engineer @tai2an, the line drawing colouriser is called Paints Chainer, and it can work both automatically and semi-automatically, adding its own selection of hues to an image or allowing the artist to choose their preferred colour palette. The results are so impressive that artists from around the world have been enthusiastically sharing their artworks on Twitter.

These images show just how much difference a splash of colour can make to a line drawing. Whether it’s the simplest of line drawings…

PaintsChainerをWindows動かす方法を詳しく説明！オフラインでも使えるようにする。自動で線画を着色しよう！ https://t.co/61Sd1klOfp #paintschainer pic.twitter.com/ItnEIvZT8n

— はうちゃそ (@HowTo_Mania) January 29, 2017

…or the most detailed, these sketches are instantly brought to life with a variety of gorgeous hues.

PaintsChainerで自動着色というのを試してみたけど面白いなこれ。塗りの苦手な自分はこんな感じで色塗れたら楽にカラー絵が出来るんだけどｗ pic.twitter.com/2utkMpdO4z

— さきの新月 (@sakino_shingetu) January 27, 2017

▼ Paints Chainer works beautifully with moving images too.

FreeStyleの出力を自動着色(ヒントなし)。色は塗れてるけど黒いモヤモヤが消せなかった。知見としては、入力を512の倍数にしておくと綺麗に出やすいのと、線の太さや濃さの影響が大きいので可能なら調節する #PaintsChainer pic.twitter.com/R7c2HJtu04

— id:ultraist (@ultraistter) January 31, 2017

The attention to dark and light shading is incredibly impressive, with points like the creases in this jacket given depth in the final result.

PaintsChainer、影指定用の色トレ線があると、気にして塗ってくれる。しかし、肌部分の認識率の高さが凄いなぁ。 pic.twitter.com/Sg2f6YE0Il

— イヌゾー (@inuzo999) January 28, 2017

▼ The skin tones are also beautifully done.

線画に色をつけれるというので、試してみた。えーおもしろい。１枚目がヒントつけての自動着色、２枚目もとになった線画 https://t.co/H6hv9PcV7a pic.twitter.com/G4SjU3md9s

— 響 (@hibiki_palm) January 27, 2017

https://twitter.com/B_Sah8/status/826421485992415233

The washed-out watercolour-style colours give images an ethereal, otherworldly look.

https://twitter.com/madara_sai_/status/824951574216613888

Paints Chainer chooses colours to fill in drawings on its own, or responds to hints from the artist to achieve personalised results.

#paintschainer Hey, not bad pic.twitter.com/vOkmO9ZhXP

— Pujolart (@Pujolart) February 1, 2017

塗りの手順はこんな感じです。chaineで自動塗りした部分は弄っていないと思います。 pic.twitter.com/jHl9QupekH

— すか@えりまき (@skysuka) January 29, 2017

It’s amazing to see how the same picture can take on a different appearance, depending on the colour palette used.

自動着色のやつ試してみた
やっぱりノーヒントだと無類の金髪好き…#PaintsChainer pic.twitter.com/dBKudcFo4I

— winn (@winbee) January 31, 2017

To try the new web service, you can visit the website here, or to see more beautiful artworks made with the handy tool, check out the hashtag #paintschainer on Twitter. And if you need to get started transforming your penciled illustrations into cleaner, more defined line drawings online, this other handy tool will help you get there!

Source: Net Lab
Featured image: Twitter/@cham05694773