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Red-Priest-Usada — Editing Scanned Drawings
Published: 2011-05-05 21:31:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 78064; 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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this is really helpful! Thank you!
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Ja mam pytanko odnośnie markerów. Zastanawiałam się nad kupnem markerów Tria lub Promarkerów. Które są wg. Ciebie lepsze?
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Hm... Tria co pamiętam miały bardziej miękki pędzelek (wygodne w cieniowaniu) ale na codzień używam zarówno Promarkerów jak i Tria (tych pierwszych mam więcej ze względu na niższą cenę).
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Czy jest ogromna różnica w jakości/łatwośći kolorowania i cieniowania między Tria a Copics'ami?
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Copici mają jeszcze bardziej miękki pędzelek- myślę też, ze ich kolory są bardziej jaskrawe niż Tria.Uważam jednak,że obydwa rodzaje pozwolą na wykonanie fajnych rysunków. Wszystko głównie zależy od umiejętności rysownika, jak nakłada kolory i je ze sobą łączy.
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Dzięki bardzo za odpowiedź c:
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Such a helpful tuts!
I wanna ask you something if you don't mind.
I always have problems when scanning my traditional art which is in A3 size. While my scanner is in A4/letter size only.
When I scanned the A3 into 3 parts, they are so hard to be combined. Especially when the drawing is colorful. The parts don't have same color anymore >>> I couldn't combine them.
So, do you have any tips? Thanks
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Thank you so much for posting this - a really useful and clear tutorial you made, here. 
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I've been having problems with my scanned drawings, and this is definitely helpful. Thank you!
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Nevermind..I got it back online...I'm sorry...
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Sorry to say but...
HOW THE HELL DOES THIS TUTORIAL WORK??? IT DOESN'T WORK ON MINE (CS4) AND NOW TO TOP IT OFF, PHOTOSHOP AND MY SCANNER IS NOT WORKING!!!!!
THIS IS BULLCRAP!!!
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Sharp is good. Blurry is bad.
Especially with detailed drawings.
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Yes, with detailed drawings we have to be careful when using Blur. That's why I always set the opacity to 20% or less.
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Having blur at all isnt best, Imo, at least.
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thaks for all your tutorials.. are so helpful 
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Thanks for this awesome tutorial! In my opinion it's quite detailed, it has a lot of fine techniques of Ps that can improve my scans greatly. It's absolutely useful, especially there aren't much tutorials around dA concerning scanlation imrpovements.
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I've always wanted a good tutorial like yours, thanks!
-Luke
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Thank you so much! I especially liked it how the lineart and paper texture is smoother! Thanks for sharing this tut!
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This is a very hand resource! Thank you for taking the time to put it together.
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Really helpful! Thanks for sharing! I would never have thought to use a blur like that
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Znam tego myka z innego tutorialu na devie, wiec lekkie deja-vu ale fajnie, ze wszystko jest tu pokazanie jak krowie na rowie.
Ale inna sprawa mnie tu kieruje.
Moje urzadzenie wilofunkcyjne ktore ma lat 5 od roku odmawia wspolpracy. Niestety ostatnio umarlo calkowicie. Ja juz takie urzadzonko mam gdzies, bo jakos skanera byla zalosna. Stawial mi ciemne plamy na obrazach ktore w dodatku byly rozmazane. Edycja kazdej pracy to strasznie duzo dlubania i mam tego dosyc. Chce kupic sobie skaner. Drukareczke niech rodzina zakupi, ja juz tego starego trolla kupilam 
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Pfe! Perfection! Pomieszalo mi sie z urzadzeniem wielofunkcyjnym XD
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This helped me sooooo much! Thank you for making this! ;w;
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This is wonderful thanks a bunch! I only used the adjust colours option and the adjust levels option but here you showed so much more, I'm going to try them all.
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I'm sure that there are even more options but I use only those presented here : ]
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What a helpful tutorial! Hav a fav!
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This is amazing! It's so hard to find easy-to-understand tutorials for those of us who prefer traditional media but like to touch them up on the computer. Thank you.
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I remember having hard time trying to fix a scan of my drawing coloured with Crayola crayons few years ago. I got depressed because I couldn't make it look better (the colours were totally destroyed). Luckily,I finally found nice tricks in Photoshop and decided to share them here with deviantart community
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