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Red-Priest-Usada — Editing Scanned Drawings
Published: 2011-05-05 21:31:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 78062; 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 a Humongous help! Thank you so much for making it so easy to follow and understand too! 
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Good luck with your scans
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Such a handy tutorial!
And the rest of them too! ^^
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This is going to come in so handy. Thank you very much.
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Seriously... Thank you. Thank you so much! This is the best tutorial for editing traditional pictures that I've ever seen! Plus you've explained everything (with pictures) clearly enough for me to be able to do all this editing with GIMP 2. Thank you!
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I'm really happy to hear that :3. Thank you!
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that's the spirit! tak care!
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Thank you T_T I always have trouble with scanning
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Glad to hear that
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Części z tego co pokazałaś już używam(poziomy, jasność/kontrast, krzywe), ale nie wiedziałam o Gaussie... muszę wypróbować, bo ładnie wygląda.
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Gaussian Blur można tez wykorzystywać jak chcesz uzyskać efekt rozmycia przedmiotu lub osoby, co pozwala np. skupić uwagę oglądającego na tych częściach rysunku, które zblurowane nie są.
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Dobra robota, Usadko! Właśnie takich informacji mi brakowało i wykręcałam się nieznajomością programów graficznych. Następnym razem zastosuję Twoją metodę i zobaczymy co z tego wyjdzie. Pozdrawiam serdecznie
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Miło mi to słyszeć :]. Naprawdę cieszę się, ze mój tutorial okazał się dla Ciebie pomocny. Powodzenia w skanowaniu i edytowaniu!
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Thanks for this. 
I will use this Tutorial for sure!
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An important point you should add is clean the scanner before you use it since the damned thing always seems have a bit of dirt in it.
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It was so obvious that I didn't mention it 
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Oblivious yes, easy forgotten more so.
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Hey now. Do we really need to teach art thieves more ways to get away with stuff?
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usually art thieves don't have photoshop.
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In which way does it teach art thieves to get away with stuff O_o?
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ooh! the Gausian blur trick! love that one.
I've been using that to edit my AP Studio Art photoshots.
The filling the layer also looks like another good trick. I use the Photo Filter in adjustments for the same effects
>.> had no clue that you could scan directly into photoshop though. :3 it's so cool to see all the different ways artists do stuff though.. yeah.
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I was sure that Importing a scan into Photoshop was a common step XD''.
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I usually scanned it through my scanner's special gizmo programs and then opened it up in Photoshop 7. Ah, if only I had known there was a quicker way haha <.<
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Hu, never knew bout the sharpen, thanks for the tutorial~
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this is very helpful thank you for sharing
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I'm glad I could share my experience with editing scanned drawings :]
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I always line art first, so this will be a big help with cleaning and stuff!
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very basic but we all need a reminder of good fundamentals...
not as step-by-step as i had expected but very well done.
lots of room to experiment in...
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