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BETTER SCANNING AND DIGITAL INKING
Now that youre done drawing your sample pages, the next thing to do is to scan. There are MANY ways to produce high-quality, scanned
artwork, this is a simple way of improving the quality of your scanned pieces. I hope you find this useful.
Joseph Caesar SD
THINGS YOU WILL NEED:
Computer hardware
Photoshop 6 or higher
Scanner
Well skip the TILING of art pieces together when using a small scanner since all of you who can scan know it anyway.

STEP 1. SCANNING THE PENCILLED IMAGE (LINE ART)

IF the penciled image has BLUE NON REPRO PENCILS beneath the leads, you will have to do this step. In PHOTOSHOP, set the scanning
resolution to 300d.p.i. , 24 bit colored mode. Select the area to be scanned and scan the image.

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resolution to 300d.p.i. , 24 bit colored mode. Select the area to be scanned and scan the image.

STEP 2. CLEANING UP THE BLUE

PENCILS IN THE IMAGE

FEATURED
Davide Tinto

Youll have something like the raw image on the

right. Blue pencils showing on top of the lead
pencil.
Go to the IMAGE menu > adjust >
HUE/SATURATION.
Select CYAN and set the slider LIGHTNESS to 100.
select BLUES and set the slider LIGHTNESS to 100.
Click OK.
You should have something like this now, blue
lines are now removed.Go to the IMAGE menu >
mode > GRAYSCALE.
The image is now converted to a much less
memory demanding file.

Rico Lima

STEP 3. CLEANING UP THE IMAGE

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STEP 3. CLEANING UP THE IMAGE

Go to the IMAGE menu > adjust >
AUTOCONTRAST.
You now have a darker image.

Zooming on the image will allow you to see dirt

and weaker pencil blackings.Go to the IMAGE
menu > adjust > BRIGHTNESS/CONTRAST.
Adjust sliders until the image becomes cleaner
(adjustments are variable), be careful not to wipe
out details
in the process.
YOU DONT HAVE TO CLEAN EVERY SPECK OF

DIRT AND IMPERFECTION HERE.

You just need to make the image a little cleaner.

The image here, as you can see, is a lot better

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The image here, as you can see, is a lot better

now, compared to to the image above.

STEP 4. INKING THE IMAGE

If the penciling is tight enough and you were able
to achieve something like the previous image,
then adjustments could be made to ink the
image on Photoshop.
Heres what you do:
INCREASE the image resolution to TWICE the
original scanned resolution.

This is the FUN part.

This technique, I was able to develop through trial
and error. I am sure there are other ways of doing
digital inking, but this one works a lot better for
me.

:-)

go to FILTERS > blur > GAUSSIAN BLUR.

SET the radius to around 2 PIXELS.

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SET the radius to around 2 PIXELS.

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(1 pixel radius per 300 DPI resolution. So 600dpi

will need
2 pixels of blur radius, 300 will only need 1 pixel,
150 will
need .5, etc.)
This procedure is done to level down
imperfections in the
pencils strokes and grays and ALSO to eliminate
specks
of dirt on the image. WHAT this does is it
smoothens out
pencils so the lines becomes more fluid looking.
The image becomes something like this:
Adjust brightness and contrast again, being
careful NOT to lose details or BREAK any pencil
lines.

You should have an image like this now.

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You should have an image like this now.

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Go to the IMAGE menu > mode > BITMAP. click

OK.
Then, Go to the IMAGE menu > mode >
GRAYSCALE.The lines now have more of that
BRUSHED look.Now reduce the image size back
to its original 300 DPI file size.

Just compare the results of the edited version to the original scanned image!

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