Change digital black line drawing to a different colour

[Fiogob]

I know the hue/colour/saturation feature (that I so love) doesn't work with standard black line drawings.

Does anyone know a good, easy-to-follow way round this?

I have several images that I want to change the colour of and they are quite intricate with reasonably fine line work, so I can't trace over them in any way.

I love PaintNET but I'm wondering if I would be better off buying Photoshop Elements - though I don't know if there's an easy way of doing what I want in this package either.

 

[MikeRobe]

Ah, now I have the solution for you. You can lighten the lines to a grey tone, then you can apply Sepia to get colour in it. Then you can change the Hue/Sat as you like.

 

There are better ways involving plugins, but this is an easy way to do so with no plugins

[TechnoRobbo]

You can you TR's Alpha Mapper to make Black transparent  and put a solid color layer underneath..

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y67pwy9deuh9sde/Pythagoras.PNG?raw=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/87alw9llmxh7942/PythagorasRed.PNG?raw=1 https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3v1hirrh35u0ly/PythagorasBlue.PNG?raw=1

 

use a selection to limit the mapping

[pdnnoob]

You can also use the recolor tool with a large brush size. (See the Paint.net Documentation for instructions on how to use it)