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🎨 DESIGN · Visuals & 3D Level: Intermediate ⏱ 15 MIN Free & Open Source

Auto-Colorize Black & White Manga and Lineart While Preserving Crisp Ink Lines in ComfyUI

Save 60% of flatting and cel-shading time. Use ComfyUI ControlNet Lineart Anime + IP-Adapter color reference and Multiply blend-mode compositing to colorize manga pages without blurring ink lines.

CORE TOOLS ComfyUI (Open Source), ControlNet Lineart Anime, IP-Adapter Color Reference
BEST FOR Manga artists, webtoon colorists, anime illustrators, concept artists
REQUIREMENTS ComfyUI environment; clean black-and-white lineart; Anime SDXL checkpoint
✦ WHY THIS WORKFLOW

Artists hate how VAE decoding softens hand-drawn ink lines. Generating only the underlying color flats while Multiply-blending the original ink layer on top preserves 100% of your linework.

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READY-TO-USE PROMPT TEMPLATE
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I want to colorize black-and-white anime lineart/manga in ComfyUI with clean cel-shading while keeping 100% of the original crisp ink lines.
Provide:
1) Positive & negative prompts for flat cel-shading (avoiding muddy painterly gradients);
2) `IP-Adapter` settings to lock character hair/eye/outfit colors;
3) Multiply blend-mode compositing steps to preserve native ink resolution.
Use Cases & Tags:
Black-and-white manga to full-color webtoon conversionCharacter concept art multi-palette explorationCel-shaded anime illustration flattingStoryboard color script generation