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TUTORIALS
Step 5: Scanning
Once you've completed cleaning up your drawing, set up your scanner
and paint program. Now, if you properly cleaned up your drawing,
you shouldn't have any problems painting it. I scan in at 150
dpi. With the lastest version of Corel Photo Paint I am able to
adjust the brightness and contrast in the scanning stage. I do
a couple of previews to make sure the image is clear. If I really
want to have a big image to work with then I scan it in at 300
dpi ( dots per inch ). However, this size takes up allot of memory
and it might slow down your system when working so big. If your
computer can handle it, then by all means work as big as you want
to. Also try to keep in mind where your final image will end up
at. If you are only going to post it on the net, then you really
don’t need to work that big. However, if you are planning
on making prints or putting a book together, then you will need
these big files. For the comix I was scanning at 300 dpi at first.
Then I found out that it was really slowing down my program because
each page of my comic book was at that size and I usually work
with all the pages at one time. Ultimately I would only end up
exporting at 96 dpi, so it didn’t make sense to scan at such
high resolution. I now scan my comic book pages at 100 dpi, just
slightly higher of what I export it out as.
Spiliting RGB channels:
This next step I just discovered not too long ago. It has worked
wonders for me. For starters, it helps me iliminate all the blue
sketch, leaving only the black line. How do you do this you might
ask? Well, once you have your image scaned and into your paint
program, go the the “Image” pull down menu. In there,
select “Split Channels to” then choose “RGB”.
This option will split the drawing into three different images
filtering out either red, green or blue. I’m interested more
in the blue filtered image that will knock out all the blue sketch.
This is the image that you will save. All the others you can delete.
Adjusting Brightness/Contrast:
I adjust brightness and contrast on my drawing. I do this to get
rid of all the grey, but make sure you keep a good quality of
your finished line art. Bring the brightness just high enough
to bring out the white. Also, use the contrast to darken the lines
a bit.
Next -> Step 6: Painting
part 1
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