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ElementalJess — Tutorial: Cleaning up Bad Scans Using Any Program

Published: 2012-11-22 20:52:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 1222; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 7
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My first EVER Tutorial that I randomly mentioned doing for this summer.

I'm sure I left out steps or mixed something up, but here it is...

Many groups don't allow "Bad Scans" of images, because it just makes the art look poor and amateurish, no matter how hard you worked at it.

So here's a step by step of how to clean up your bad scans, camera images, and what-have-you.

I have a Mac, and I used the "Preview" program. No matter what photo viewer you have, even if you don't have a painting or photoshop program, chances are that you'll have the equivalent to the tools I use here. The main four are: Cropping, Grayscale (also called "Saturation,") Brightness, and Contrast.

That's all I did! Using just those four tools, you turn a muddy yellow image into a fairly attractive piece of dA art!

Enjoy ^.^
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Comments: 8

ArtyBSmarty [2012-11-24 14:26:53 +0000 UTC]

Hmm...this could be very useful for the future if I post more traditionals ^^ thanks, very nice tutorial!

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ElementalJess In reply to ArtyBSmarty [2012-11-24 14:46:27 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^_^ It's the best I've got right now I was going around DA the other day taking advantage of tutorials and I felt bad for not paying it forward!

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ArtyBSmarty In reply to ElementalJess [2012-11-25 06:40:35 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome c: seems like a good enough reason

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Siver-Paw [2012-11-23 09:26:07 +0000 UTC]

Ahhh, this is great, thank you for uploading this!! c: Omc, so long time no talk, how have you been, how's everything going for you? :3

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ElementalJess In reply to Siver-Paw [2012-11-23 14:29:26 +0000 UTC]

Really good O_O Just buuusy. We were house sitting, and I spent that whole weekend packaging and shipping books <3 <3 then I got sick o_O Then it was Thanksgiving and next week I have a book party in my town!

How are you?

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Siver-Paw In reply to ElementalJess [2012-11-29 05:08:15 +0000 UTC]

WOW, i'm glad to see that the progress with your books are going very well!! <33 Daww I hope you feel better very soon :3 Fsssfffsfsfsfsf BOOK PARTY!! XDD

I'm doing okay (as usual) life could always be better lol But my friends always make it ALOT better for me c': <3333 I am so happy to hear from you again, and i'm so sorry that I haven't been able to comment and check up on you for the longest time, school is really getting to me ;A;

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ElementalJess In reply to Siver-Paw [2012-11-29 16:08:54 +0000 UTC]

Aw that's okay. I'm a really sort of ...feathery (I prefer that term to 'flighty') sort of friendship keep anyway ;D Best of luck with alllll the school things O_O!

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Siver-Paw In reply to ElementalJess [2012-11-29 23:41:03 +0000 UTC]

X3 Thank you so much, and I hope everything goes good for you until we talk again!! c': <33

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