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DIY Lightbox
Published: 2010-04-13 08:00:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 51015; Favourites: 1125; Downloads: 737
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This is a quick tutorial to show how you can make a lightbox out of mats. I work in a frame shop and put together one of these a while back and just wanted to show people how they can do the same thing.To make a larger one try 8-ply mat board. The best part about this lightbox is you get the mats cut by a framer and you don't have to use a box cutter on cardboard, and the end result looks a little more professional. The mats are usually cheap (mine were $.50 each) so there's no reason not to do it if you can find them.
If you have any Q's just comment and I'll do my best to answer. I've never done a tutorial before, and there are probably typos in there, so apologies in advance. :3
And for the record I'm by no means a skilled or experienced photographer- just good enough to photograph the D&D Miniatures I painted. This is just to give someone with no knowledge of photography something to start with!
ETA- Wow, thank you so much =Romaji and ^shelldevil . I hope some of you browsing the DD's find this useful. <3
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I know a lot of people just scan and print out sketches in a non-black colour (blue, green) and then remove it in photoshop later. But you'd have to not use that colour, so it's only good for inking. Then you'd print out the clean black lineart. 
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Actually, for inking, I'm just lazy. P: I just do a half-assed quick ink over light pencil, erase the pencil, and then go back and fix the lines, adding weight, fixing mistakes, etc. What I really want it for is transferring sketches onto marker paper. * 3* I've tried scanning and printing on to it, but the computer ink doesn't go well with the paper. T~T
For some reason, I can never sketch something I LIKE on the marker paper first. It's weird. D;
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Ah well, it sounds like you need a lightbox! ;D lol
It's always easiest to draw on blue-lined notepaper. Nobody knows why.
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Whoever created blue-lined notebook paper was a EVIL GENIUS. We would have a love-hate relationship. P:
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Hmm, I had a lightbox once which was made by my dad. It was quite inexpensive to make.
You could buy one of those cheap glass photo frames, remove the frame and glue the glass onto a 10+cm deep wooden frame (or box could work too). Then just spray white spray (or leave clear, if you prefer to work with REALLY bright light) under the glass, and put a light source (a small fluorescent tube lamp or a round lamp) underneath; works pretty well.
I oughta make a new one, I broke mine accidentally. T-T It's also a good base to cut paper with an art cutting knife.
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