inking help please!!

[Laughing Dragon]

Hi, I'm back again, poor ignorant Dragon.

Here's what I need to do:

I've drawn a character, scanned it into PE4. I then created a layer from the background to ink the character in with a black outline. Now, what I want to do is color it. But I'd like to keep the black outline layer separate from the color layers. That is, I'd like to be able to click on a layer and the black outline image appears. Then I'd like to create a color layer in which I color the character, say, pink. Then I'd like to create another layer in which I color the character yellow or something. In the end I'd like several layers that I can click on and I'd get: black outline drawing; black outline with pink coloring; black outline with yellow coloring; and so on. All separate. Is that possible? Thanks for the help!

[cats4jan]

Duplicate your outline layer - keep the original outline layer to use again

Using the magic wand - click inside your outline - and once you see marching ants - select a new foreground color - then use your paint bucket to color the inside by merely clicking inside the selection

This way the layer will have both the outline and the color on the same layer

EDIT - I keep reading what you want and I keep interpreting it differently.

Another way to approach this is to control click on the outline layer to select it - marching ants will appear

Open a new layer - and again - using the paint bucket - color the layer within those marching ants.

This way - the color will be on one layer - the outline on another layer

[frank abramonte]

Sounds like cats4jan's first suggestion is what your looking for.
This will give you a complete character in each of the colors with a black outline, also the original character in black outline without color.
You can also achieve the same by making a separate document of each and naming it "Pink", "Yellow" etc.
Here you would select inside the character and fill it with the color and save as "Pink", then repeat for the rest.