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Tutorial: Editing Drawings
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Published: 2008-02-28 15:32:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 255542; Favourites: 3294; Downloads: 0
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Yes, I made a new tutorial! This time it's about how scanners work and how I edit drawings in Photoshop.I know I said I wouldn't make any more tutorials, but I got soooooooooo many questions about this, and it's something I won't be putting in my artbook anyway, so I've been working on this all day long.
And now I'm tired...
Oh well, hope it's useful
Watch my other tutorials here!
Eye tutorial
Nose tutorial
Hair tutorial
Shading & Blending tutorial
Drawing Progress tutorial
Detailed Hair part 1
Detailed Hair part 2
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Thank you! My drawings always get more annoying details after scanned than irl.
Thaaaanks!
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dunno if you guys have tried it.. but when the scan starts turning out lighter than the original (thus destroying those minute details) a good way to overcome it is to put a black color piece of paper behind the drawing before scanning it...
hope that helps..
cheers..
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Thanks for posting this. It's a great tutorial. I have a lot of those problems when scanning pencilwork and it's a pain.
Those evil scanners.
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you just seriously made my day!
i've been battling with my scanner and iPhoto for ages!
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Great tutorials. I'm so glad I found your tutorial becaue you've covered almost all my questions.
One question I have about this is have you ever had the problem where your whole drawing doesn't scan, or it's blurry/dodgy in one area? Sorry if that's more than one question...
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OMG! Thank you so much for the tutorial! This will definitely help me out next time!
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I need this tutorial sooooooo much. Now I'm thinking about going and finding my old drawings, editing their contrasts, and re-uploading them here on dA. Meh heh heh. Very helpful, this; thank you!
Also... I knew it was Ewan even before I read that it was.
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is photo shop a good program to use i just scan most of my pictures on paper they look pretty good but when scan they look kinda blah.. i've been using picasa.... but i don't know can you look at my drawings and tell me what to think also i'm going to use your tutorials. on a new picture an let you know the results great gallery by the way. hopefully with your info i can add more depth and make it look more realistic for thats my de lima
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OH MY GOSH!!!!! A LIFE SAVOR!!!! THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING THIS!!!!!!!!!!! ^^
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Aww, wish i had a scanner... I will just learn to do it by pencil!!!
If you have time could you check out my work? also, ill keep in touch. i drew a couple pictures beacuse you inspired me to draw much more, and try very hard... he he. your my insperation! thank you.
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this tutorial helped me in editing my pencil art [link]
thanks
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thaaanksss!maybe following this i won't yell so much at my scanner anymore! XD
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Thank you SO much. A very helpful tutorial, thank you.
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thanks so much for this tutorial! exactly what i need for my pencil drawings
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Hm, I'm going to use this...a lot 
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whoa!!You got the same laser scanner I have. I am so excited. I now know that my art quality will be the same with you after photoshop. But I got a question. If the outline W.I.P. scan is so light that you can't see some lines and I don't adjust it at first. Will the darkness affect those lines in photoshop? What I mean is say the picture i scanned is so light that with a naked eye it seems blank. Then I put it in photoshop and darken it, will all the parts show up it I darken it enough? Thanks for your help
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That's cool!! Are you have troubles with the software too by the way? 
As for your question, I'm not really sure I understand you completely but I think I have an idea what you mean!
When you scan a piece of paper with outlines only, the lines can barely be seen with the bare eye indeed. What I always do in such cases is
- open the file in Photoshop
- go to Image > Adjustments > Levels
- move the middle grey arrow underneath the contrast box to the right.
You'll see the lines of the lineart with change their contrasts, but the background will be plain white.
Good luck!
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oh, thank you, so I don't really have to use the HP scanning program to adjust it first? I just directly go to photoshop and change it? Well I'll try that, I believe it'll work
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thanx u very much for this tutorial !!
i think i need to buy a scenner like u ^^
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It is very useful! Perhaps my draws were in order to better, if I improved them. But I think that correcting is a little fraud however.
(sorry for my bad english......)
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Holy shit. I use a 2300 of the same thing. I always figured you had some uber awesome machine!
o.o I'm like.. amazed right now. I wonder how much of a difference there is between the two makes? Your's seems to pick up more detail than mine.
Anyway. Thanks for the tips <3 I'll /defiantly/ be using them in future. Er... might be going back with old stuff. Hah.. Anyway. Thanks so much!
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Wow, this is really really helpful. My pictures never have enough contrast after I scan them, but now I'll know what to do
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Thank you very much for the tutorial! Helpful and easy to fallow.
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Um...what if we're one of those wonderful people that are lacking photoshop?
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thank you so much for this tutorial, it saved me with scanning in my new Ashley Tisdale piece. I put a link to this in it to thank you!
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I just came by to say that your scanner is the biggest piece of crap ever!
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So simple and so easy to follow
You are an amazing artist ^^
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Thanks for this tutorial! I'll have a go when I get home! I was gonna invest in a "good" scanner because the quality of my scanned images were so poor. I felt I couldn't do traditional stuff and load them online!
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Glad you like it!
Are you still planning to buy a better scanner?
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thanks a lot for this. I'm just going CRAZY when my picture scans look so horrible. Now, I just must find someone that has photoshop
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What I find most difficult is making the picture so lifelike (with the lighting and contrast, I mean). Whenever I edit my pics, I always end up with a scan that is far too crisp and looks like someone sprinkled snowflakes all over it. It looks extremely strange. >,<
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I always had a problem with scanning, so this tutorial is very helpful for me, thank you ^^
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Yay I tried this out with 3 of my drawings and submitted them, the third was kind of a dud but I did like the SweenyTodd one and Jack Sparrow... It got a lot more faves on the resubmitted ones then the originals lol
Thanks for the turtorial, it's real helpful
And here is the link just incase you want to see ^-^
Jack Sparrow---> [link]
Sweeny Todd---->[link]
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Ooh, I'm gonna check them out right now
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Very lovely tutorial. If I had a scanner I would so use this tutorial! Haha xD Technically I do... but it likes to make random lines, and no matter what I do, I can't fix it. I think it's the light or something :\
Oh well, if I get a new one, I'll deffinately being using this tutorial. Oh, and congradulations on the DD!
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This is exactly what I do with every pencil sketch I scan. 
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Oh thank you very much for your tutorials! it's very very useful!
I love your drawings especialy Dr House! ^_^ i'm a big fan!
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This will be so much help to me, since I do a lot of traditional pencil work and the way it fades is incredibly frustrating. Thanks for providing this for everyone
Just wondering if there's any tips to improve colour fading, or do you just work in greys?
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ahahha!!! I used to do the last example a lot! HAHHAHA!
but well, I think also depend on the scaner some times. I just throw away my old one because it was inside a multi-funcion machine and it went really good, but the new one it's so bad.. I really can't scan anything good in there now =_=''''
u did a really nice job w it!!
^^
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Thank you so much for all of the time and effort you put into these tutorials^^
I know many people really appreciate it, myself included.
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Have you any tips on how to get a matt texture instead of the shiny appearance you get when using pencils to render dark areas?
Much appreciated.
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Very helpful ^_^ Thank you!
But I'll problably forget how to use anything like always
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not really! the scans look very light, but in real life my drawings look exactly the same as the edited scans
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I know, I was just kidding. But it's good that Photoshop can bring back what the scanner destroys
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