Colorizing black-and-white comic strips

Aperture isn't a 'painting' program. You can manipulate colors and tune particular areas of images but adding arbitrary colors isn't its goal. You need Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, or any of several free or shareware applications, e.g., GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program).

coxorange wrote:

I haven't tried Aperture yet but I've also read that it can use overlays. So there is really no way with aperture?

Nope. Without third-party plugins Aperture does not work with either layers or transparency. Not sure where you read about overlays.

The Tint adjustment won't add colour: it uses a picture's colour information and alters its phase. Without colour to work with it doesn't do anything at all.

Neil's suggestions are exactly what you should be looking into.

Reports from users of the OnOne beta were that it was more reflected smoke than anything substantial. Proceed with skepticism.

Message was edited by: Kirby Krieger -- added link.