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I'm new to TVP and having a problem converting a scanned pencil drawing animation to white on black. I'm thinking the best way would be to do a scan clean and then have a blacked out background layer and use a blending mode to make the pencil lines white on black but I've have tried all the blending modes,maybe I need to use a combination of line layers with different blending modes? Sorry if this is an obvious question but I've tried everything I can think of. I know I could use the fill tool but the animation is over 200 frames and I hope to use the same style in the future so a simple one click method would be ideal. Any help would be much appreciated, Paul

I'm guessing i need a combination of the stencil tool or the preserve transparency with a blending mode but i'm hitting and hoping..

Managed to get it by duplicating the layer setting the top layer's blending mode to value and setting the background to none but course it won't export like that

Hi,

I would do it like this:
1. Scan Drawings in one layer
2. Use the basic scan cleaner (or FX - Color / Scan Cleaner) to delete the white space (makes it transparent)
3. Use FX - Stylize / Negative to change the color of the lines of the drawings from black to white
4. Set the Background Color to Black (or add an extra layer totally filled with black under the drawing layer)
5. Exporting the animation with background checked

That's it

Worked a treat! Knew there had to be a simpler way. Thanks a million Mark,was really getting my goat

or alternatively simply apply on your scanned sequence a Color/Curves/HSLO_FX with the Luma curve set inverted. save the "invert-Luma" FX in the Bin to re-use it at the next occasion.

Thanks Zigotto,i'll remember that for again,my friend ended up doing the editting on Premier as he has much more experience and I think he used your method. You can see the finished film here(animation is just the first 20 seconds)
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