Coloring inside a Clipping Mask?

1. Add a blank layer and Edit > Fill it with your chosen car body cclor. Then turn off the layer and return to the image layer.

2. Choose the Quick Section tool and select the car body.

3. Choose the flat color layer and click on the Mask symbol at the bottom of the Layers panel

4. Change the Blending Mode of the layer to Multiply

5. Use a hard edged brush to touch up the mask where the Selection is inaccurate.

I would like to know an easy way to clear up the edges instead of physically having to go around and "erase" the excess color.

Hi

A clipping mask can be used to colour the lines - it clips the layer above to the non transparent areas of the layer below. However from your description it sounds like you need to paint in some, but not all, of the transparent areas.

One way would be to use the selection tools on the drawing layer to select the area you want to fill with a particular colour and then add a solid colour fill layer beneath the drawing layer. The colour fill layer will be masked to that selection.  Repeat for the other colours. This will keep your colours editable by just clicking on the solid colour fill layer and changing the colour.

Dave