Preserved Topic: Digital coloring

Hi
I'm new here.My friend recomend me this site as a solution for my problem.I try to colour my sketches but i realised that my scans are bad the lines aren't smooth enought.I try many methods:experiments with brightness,improving lines by paint brush and corecting by eraser but the work still isn't looking as it should.
I turn to you guys for some advices or clues how i should do my work properly.Maybe you know some good tutorials ilustrating whole proces from scan to digital art.To better ilustrate my problem i add links to image after scan and after some improvements. http://62.181.182.10/~lr/sol.html

uki: As luck would have it we have discussed this before - see these netries in the FAQ (quite a few of the tutorials in the second FAQ deal with exactly this problem so check them out:

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As you are new you might also want to check this out:

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[edit: BMP isn't really a suitable format for web distribution of graphics a gif would have been better for showing the example ]

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I think your main problem is you are scanning to too small, try incresing the resolutions or the number of pixels of your scan.

I would scan it the highest native resolution of your scannere. (ie. if it a 1200X2400 scanner scan at 1200. This will produce a huge scan, so scale it down in photoshop to about twice the size you need for the final usage. Once finished coloring scale a copy for your website or whatever, this in most cases improve your line quality and had any minor errors.

Do be careful of fine linework as you do risk the chance of loosing them in the re-size.

jstuartj



[This message has been edited by jstuartj (edited 01-22-2003).]

When I take lineart into Photoshop, the preliminart thing that I always do is to screw around with curves (multiple times if necisarry), levels and brightness.

Adobe (at some point) had a program that took line art (inked, especially) and turned it into lines. I forgot what it's called.

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A couple of suggestions... First, try saving your scan as a .tiff , then in Photoshop, type CTRL+L (levels) and move the slider on the left to the right until the lines darken nicely. Then, maybe add some contrast. (Image>>Adjust>>Brightness/Contrast).

If all else fails, trace it with the pen tool, and stroke it. Or, when you color it, paint(or fill, whatever) over the original line art (on a separate layer, of course) and then when you have the layer the way you like it, select the layer and stroke that.

Hope this helps.

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[This message has been edited by docilebob (edited 01-23-2003).]

Thanks to all of you guys that give me advice i will look through them when I come back from the party .
Once again thanks for this whole helpful stuff

Adobe Streamline (which is really getting on in years) is a dedicated program that turns raster artwork into vector paths. Recent versions of Illustrator (Freehand, Corel Draw) will do the same thing, if you poke around enough. However, if you don't know much about working with vector-based artwork, this is probably a bad solution for you.

Is scanning program importatnt for quality of scan????????
Do you know any good?

and one more how to change position of one point to make line smother ??

If you mean moving a single control point on a path, (witth the pen tool active) you can hold CTRL and drag it, or grag the entire line, or nudge the point (when selected) with the arrow keys. If it has *handles* hold ALT and you can pull one side of the handle by itself to adjust that side of the curve.

Is that what you meant ?

Thanks docilebob that's exacly what i need.And now i have another question : when i finish my sketch by pencil what stuff is the best to ink it.

i know this is a bit late, but here's a good site: http://www.merekatcreations.com/
they have a tut that explains how she does her work.
from the main page click on tutorials and then how mynx was created (how i work)
it's very informative!!!

Never is too late thx Lacuna