Welcome to Adobe Streamline. Well, At least for anyone who has the program. If not, you can just skip to the next page.

Anyway, open your .psd file in Streamline. Now go to file/convert. I don't know why I'm telling you this. I mean, if you have Streamline, you probably already know how to do this since it's about all streamline can do.

Streamline takes your line work and converts it to vector shapes, meaning there will be no ruffled or fading edges anymore! It will be a 'strictly' black and white image. Without Streamline, you have to do this manually in photoshop, but with the program, I find life to be that much easier.

The only down side to Adobe Streamline is that it will DISTORT your line work. It will sometimes make your lines thinner or remove them altogether. You may very well have to redraw lines back in photoshop. Sometimes, if your linework is really thin, it's best to just skip streamline altogehter and tought it out in photoshop.

Anyway, save this new file as evil_yori.ai . The .ai stands for adobe illstrator. It simply means that you're saving the work as vector art instead of pixel art, meaning you can adjust it to any size you like, and it won't pixelate.

Now back in photoshop, it's time to set up your new streamlined art. First, for those who used Streamline, open your .ai file. It'll ask you what size you want ot make it. Just select what it defaults to, which is the original size of the image. What you'll get is your line work with some opaque white areas and some transparent areas.

Now flatten your image by selecting Flatten Image in the Layers palette, as shown. You're ready to set up your basic color layers now!