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- 1). Open up your art program. Make sure it's a bitmap-based program, such as Photoshop, Open Canvass or GIMP, rather than a vector based program such as Illustrator or CorelDraw.
- 2). Go to the "File" menu and click on the "Open" option. Find the file that has your clip art in it and open it.
- 3). Examine the clip art. Find any areas where the line art has a break in it. The lines in the artwork will divide up different fields of color, and if two areas that need different colors are not completely blocked off, the colors will bleed into each other.
- 4). Select the "Line" tool from the art program's toolbar and set the brush size to 1 pixel. Use the "Line" tool to block off any breaks in the line art. To do this, click and hold the left mouse button on one side of the break, then drag the mouse over the gap and release the button when you reach the other side. This will fill the gap with a straight line.
- 5). Click on your program's "Paint Bucket" tool and choose a color you wish to use from your program's color palette. Click on the area of the artwork that you wish to color. The Paint Bucket will fill that area with color, stopping only when it reaches the black lines of the artwork. Do this for each color.
- 6). Fill each area with its appropriate color again if there are jagged white lines between the colored parts of your clip art and the black line. Many art programs will extend the colored area out by 1 or 2 pixels.
- 7). Save your newly colored file by going to your "File" menu and clicking on "Save As." Enter a new file name to save the colored art as a new file. Choose either JPG or GIF for your file format and click on the "Save" button.
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