Humility Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 I just got a newer scanner after my old 3 in one behemoth died. I figured a pure scanner would work much better and although it kind of does, it leaves my pencil drawings looking messy. The other scanner would leave the actual drawings looking rather sharp and auto-remove or fade most of the random spots on the paper. And whatyever it left behind could be removed by sharpening the image twice, setting the paintbucket on global, 50% and clicking a white spot with white paint. Then just turn the rest of the lines pure black with the global paint bucket. But now that doesn't work, it still leaves a huge mess of spots to clean up. So any suggestions on how to get rid of the spots while keeping my lines? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Could you post an example? If the random spots are lighter than the text and lines you want to keep, you can dial up the brightness and contrast until they're gone. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted May 28, 2014 Author Share Posted May 28, 2014 Whoa, that worked like magic. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted May 28, 2014 Share Posted May 28, 2014 Glad to help! Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 The plugins "Make Transparent" and "AAs Assistant" coupled with some layer duplication will also work wonders if things get too messy for brightness / contrast to handle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 Hmm... This has umm... has left holes in my lines. I'm going to post a series of images detailing each step I am taking to my current results and ask best way to improve it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 Here are the images and steps. Step 1. Base image. Step 2. Make Black and white. Step 3. Set bright and contrast to 10. Step 4. Sharpen twice. Step 5.Use the global paint, color white 50%. Step 6. Use the color black, global paint 50% on lines to darken them completely. And there you can see my problem. Especially in the vertical lines, the lines look like swiss cheese. I have to Trace each line with the paint brush which is rather time consuming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Try this: Start with your original image. Effects > Stylize > Outline -Move Intensity all the way up -Adjust line thickness Adjustments > Black and White Adjustments > Brightness / Contrast -Move contrast all the way to the right -Adjust Brightness down until drawing looks good Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted May 31, 2014 Author Share Posted May 31, 2014 That, actually worked pretty good. Won't know absolutely until I color it in but that was way simpler then what I normally do and really effective it looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted July 6, 2014 Author Share Posted July 6, 2014 Found an absolutely most superior way of doing it. Felt I should post it here for anybody searching. I found that Black and white> Max contrast+minimal Brightness>Oil painting with the tiniest brush setting makes it practically perfect. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david.atwell Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Nice, thanks for reporting back! If you'll post before/after images, sounds like it might be worthy of promotion to Mini-Tut status. Quote The Doctor: There was a goblin, or a trickster, or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world.Amy: But how did it end up in there?The Doctor: You know fairy tales. A good wizard tricked it.River Song: I hate good wizards in fairy tales; they always turn out to be him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) I'll have to figure out how I'm going to make a before and after image. I'll have to draw some scribbles on a page or something Edited July 7, 2014 by Humility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humility Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) Digitally Inking a Pencil Drawing. Before: After: As you can see the starting image is very messy with bleed through and smudges and stuff that doesn'r actually exist but is scanned in anyway. Anyway my steps are 1. Click black and white. 2. Probably not relevant but for some reason the scanner causes the left edge of my paper to be messier then the rest. So before I can do anything else I have to select that area and lighten it with the 'curves' adjustment. Because its important that the entire image be at the same level of messiness. 3. Then I click brightness contrast, bring contrast all the way to the right, brightness to the left. Though sometimes i an image is extra bad I have to make brightness a little less to the left. 4. I then use oil painting with brush size and coarseness at minimal. This removes tiny specks and closes tiny gaps in the lines. Most of them at least. Still far better then anything else I've tried. Edited July 7, 2014 by Humility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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