Yar looks good! Inking in photoshop using paths and such I've found is very very tedious. That's why I like inking by hand. Or with a tablet, it's not too bad. Just have to zoom waaaay in.
Those two ways make much more sense to my head, than by using the paths. When I use the paths I have to keep hitting undo, adjust, re apply, etc over and over on the same line and I Still don't get what I want, so I just use the manual method. 
I've found that if I can get a nice smooth outline, that the Live Trace function works pretty to give you some nice paths while still keeping a hand-drawn feel.
Given it takes a little tweaking afterwards, I've found it works pretty well.
((I can show you an example with your piece if you'd like. :P))
"Live Trace"? Is that an option in Photoshop CS? Heck yeah, I'd like to see an example! 
I think that by using a combination of pen tracing and brush work with my rusty, dusty wacom (I..think it uses coal for power still...) I might come up with a satisfactory look without tons of time.
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Okay :P This took about 5 minutes with a little touching up in photoshop first. Only thing though, it does much better with pure outlines than actual shaded work :P
http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3...examplefc9.png
EDIT: Whoops, knew I forgot something. Live Trace is in Illustrator CS2 :x
Huh! That's not bad at all, considering it was a pencil sketch. Now you're going to make me have to find a copy of CS2 to work with....
Thanks, Hex!
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Adobe has a trial version of it (I think it has all the features working for 30 days or something) so that you can at least try it out :P
http://www.adobe.com/downloads/
Not something you'd wanna blow that much money on for a whim. I bought it as a package with a student discount, so, um... yeah
What is Live Trace?
Basically, it takes a raster image (one with pixels and stuff) and automatically turns it into to vector paths. You can specify the complexity or simplicity of the path, and then expand it to edit it.
Ooh really so it'll turn it into vectors? That'll make it nice to resize. But how do you color with vectors?
Well, there's 2 ways. You can use a crapload of gradients and meshes to get the desired effect, but the way I'd suggest is re-exporting it as a raster graphic, then coloring it in something like photoshop or whatever. It'll keep its hand-drawn and clean look while giving you the flexibility to do many different effects.
The upside to using the meshes and fills though is that it works like vectors in that it's also resizable.
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I think I'm gonna write an FAQ on this for people...
Oh, and if anyone has any pure outline raster images they want vectorized (the cleaner the lines the better) I'll happily do that for them :P
Howdy folks! I was looking over some tutorials on inking in Photoshop last night and thought I'd give one of the techniques a try. I like how it went.....except, since I was inking using paths, it took over an hour. Take a peek at it.
Black Atom Inked
If you want to see the pencils I worked off of, you can see them here:
Black Atom Pencils
I'd be curious to hear comments, and other folks experience at digital inking. I really, really like the look, and maybe I can cut some corners to make things faster...but...
Oh, and if you want to see the tutorial I was using to guide me, it's here.
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