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Published: 2011-05-05 21:31:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 78061; Favourites: 3304; Downloads: 1375
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Since many people asked me how I edit my traditionally made drawings in Photoshop, I made this tutorial today to explain everything as clearly as I can. I know that scanners often ruin the colors and that's very frustrating. I hope my tips will help you with that problem.There are some screenshots where it's hard to find any differences between them but it's just because of the picture I chose for this tutorial (my scanned image is actually very bright and clean).
If any problems, don't hesitate to ask me :]. I used Adobe Photoshop CS3 for this tutorial but I think other versions should allow you to do the same as me.
My other tutorials:
[link] TUTORIAL: Cleaning Pencil Linearts
[link] TUTORIAL: Drawing Hair
[link] TUTORIAL: Basic Drawing Tips
[link] Marker Tutorial- Part I
[link] Drawing folds and frills in women's clothes
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You can do this with pretty much any scanner and any raster-based art program. Some details might be different, but the general process with work in any program that has blur filters, color adjustment and layer options.
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Yeah but my scanner is awful...
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Check whenever it has been properly calibrated. My cheap-ish scanner occasionally adds a line in the middle of the scanned document every now and then, but running the calibration fixes that. Of course, if your scanner has damaged glass and/or non-functioning parts, then it's a problem. If you have a decent digital camera, you could try taking pictures of your artwork in daylight and still post-process them with similar methods as in the tutorial.
Good luck!
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Mmm..maybe I can sent you my scanner menu?
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I can take a look, sure, though I am not an expert on all scanners in the world.
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Β here the setting of my scanner...
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I've replied to this image in your Stash.
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All your tutorials are awesome and helpful. Thank you!
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Thanks for sharing. ;u; Really helped me out.
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You're welcome!
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This is really helpful tutorial!!!Thanks for sharing it.
I usually use levels and contrast, but I have never tried anything other.Good ideas-I'll use them.
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I'm so happy to hear that 
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I'm happy you are happy
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Aww... thank yo for your kind word. If you need any help or have questions concerning my tutorials then don't hesitate to ask. I will be glad to help.
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Sorry for late reply!
Thank you!!!I appreciate your offer very much!I don't have exactly many experiences with PS(or at least not as much as with traditional art) and I'm not the kind of person who would do experiments with it so there are many things I didn't figure out yet, so advises and tutorials are very much appreciated
Huh, it reminds me I didn't visit your gallery yet
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This tutorial has saved me, thank you so much!Β
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Near the end of the tutorial you say to 'duplicate the layer of your drawing again and blur it with the gaussian blur filter' But didn't you already do that above? Do you do it twice or something? I'm just wondering cause I got a bit confused XD
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Yeah. I did it twice. First on the big 3000dpi version and at the end when the image is resized.
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I had been looking for advice on processing scanned artwork. Thanks a lot!
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You're welcome : ]
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Thanks for the great tutorial, it was a HUUUUGE help after I could only scan this pic with my phone: [link] , but thanks to you, I think it turned out rather nice in the end!!
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Thank you so.. much for the tutorial... >w<
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Thanks a bunch! I'll feel better coloring traditionally and scanning now
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I'm glad I could help
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Thank you SO much for doing this! It helped a ton
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Aww! Something I really needed! I will try this asap!
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this is amazing cant wait to try this out on my next scan work
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these are really helpful..I always have problems when i scan in my images, they always end up looking really grainy ...so thank you ^_^
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So every traditional drawing have to be edited? Pencil, Crayons and watercolours?
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No, of course. Everything depends how your work looks after it's scanned. Sometimes scanners do great job so you don't need to edit everything.
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Meeh...my scanner is totally crap >.>
It makes everything lighter!
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That's a frequent problem with scanners :/
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Thank you thank you thank you!!!!! It was really useful and helpful tutorial
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You're welcome
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O, nie wiedziaΕam ΕΌe rozmawiam z rodakiem
Mam dwa skanery: staruszka Plusteka i ΕwieΕΌo zakupiony "kombajn" HP... Z tym pierwszym o wiele Εatwiej mi siΔ pracuje.
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Ja teΕΌ mam starego Plusteka i mimo, ze podczas skanowania "zΕΌera" nieco kolory a do tego przeszedΕ juΕΌ dwie naprawy to jednak dalej dobrze sobie radzi i nie narzekam.
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I am sure I will find this useful as I get more and more back into drawing. Thank you for the tutorial.
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