Removing all color but line art from a comic page ?

[jmusich]

I have a sectoon ofs comic page I wish to recolor. In order to do that I wish to preserve the line art and then to re add the color. What are the steps to removing existing color alone ? Thanks. I am using Elements 2023 but also have both 2024 and 2025. Thanks

[Greg_S.]

Can you show us an example. 

To remove all color from the page, you can change the image to grayscale, using Enhance>Convert to Grayscale.

One of the new features of Elements 2025 is easy recoloring using the Enhance>Change Object Color tool. 

[jmusich]

Thanks I appreciate your reponse. I have tried changing the art to grey scale. What I want to do is eliminate all the coloring  except the line art which were originally black ink over pencil. Do you have a video source forEnhance>Change Object Color tool ?

I will post the image... 

[Greg_S.]

If you just want to create a line art page with your sample, I think the best option is to use the Enhance>Convert to Black and White tool.  Using the Newspaper style option and making a few adjustments with the sliders, here is what I achieved:

But I'm not sure that is the best way to replace the colors since you will no longer have a color to replace.

If you want to simply replace the existing colors with the new Elements 2025 Replace Object Color tool, here is a video tutorial.

[jmusich]

Thanks. I did try the infrared choice achieved a sort of result I liked. I will also try newspapers as you did. My next step will be to save the result as not a psd but a jpg. And then bring it back into Elements. A friend shared with me a how to video using full photoshop. I did review the video you linked. I am not sure color replacement is as simple as this video that is also out there. This is quite deceptive in termd of it's simplicity.

[Greg_S.]

I agree that the Adobe promotional video is over simplified and should not be regarded as a How-to video.