how do I work with pencil scans using photoshop???

[Scribla1]

how do I work with pencil scans using photoshop????, when I scan the pencil
lines look dirty or the paper picks of horrid tones. and how can I trace the
picture so I can save it as a section to colour with out the pencil outline
etc????, so I could use it as a cartoon piece??.

thanks
scribla

[J. Costello]

On 22 Jul 1999 09:51:03 GMT, scri...@aol.com (Scribla1) wrote:

>how do I work with pencil scans using photoshop????, when I scan the pencil
>lines look dirty or the paper picks of horrid tones.

Off hand it sounds like you've either 1. got a low end scanner, 2.
your monitor is not calibrated, 3. the paper with the drawing is
actually dirty.

>and how can I trace the
>picture so I can save it as a section to colour with out the pencil outline
>etc????, so I could use it as a cartoon piece??.
>

To do this either 1. scan the image as line art (and you'll need to
retouch some of the "holes" in the black lines later in Photoshop)
[note this solution produces a 1 bit line art NOT vector art) or 2.
purchase Adobe Streamline which can take an image and convert it into
editable vector (line) art.

J. Costello

[Rich Hudgins]

If you scan it in as grayscale (or RGB then bring it down to color in
PS) use Levels and/or Threshold to get your lines black and your whites
white. Then bring it down to Bitmap using the 50% threshold conversion.
Then if you want you can bring it into Streamline if you want to edit
the lines in Illustrator or FreeHand. If you do this I recommend
scanning the original at 1200 DPI for the best Streamline results.

[KDan]

In article <19990722055103...@ngol02.aol.com>,

scri...@aol.com (Scribla1) wrote:
> how do I work with pencil scans using photoshop????, when I scan the
pencil

> lines look dirty or the paper picks of horrid tones. and how can I

trace the
> picture so I can save it as a section to colour with out the pencil
outline
> etc????, so I could use it as a cartoon piece??.
>

> thanks
> scribla
>

I believe Edgar Tadeo's page would answer your question. He's a Comics
artist and has tips on how to do that...

http://eet3.virtualave.net/photoshoptips/index.html

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[Vince Da Stylo]

I've always made really dark pencil lines and scanned it in a 300 dpi or so.
When I went into photoshop, I did a select>color range and selected a near
black color from the image and copy and pasted it into it's own layer (or
select black and set the fuzziness to about 50 or so). I deleted the
background to white. At 300 dpi, the aliasing really don't show up that
much. You may need to do some cleanup work, but it should look nice enough.
I used this technique on anime-type images for my portfolio and it printed
out with no pixelation. You can also use the original image as a guide for
your pen tool, but sometimes this takes a while.

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