Yuck! The comic doesn't look too good in flat color, huh?

A crucial step, and a very quick one. After inking the comic in Photoshop, I open it up in Illustrator. All I do is run a Live Trace on the artwork, allowing me to simply click-fill everything and leave backgrounds transparent, in a matter of minutes!

I used to hate this step before discovering this process, because I would have to manually draw in all the colors in their own layer in Photoshop, taking up to two hours! Thank you, Alex Kolesar (No Need for Bushido), for sharing this!