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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:47 am
by Masteroftheweb
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 5:12 am
by kaos
Did you clean it up in photoshop?
it looks really clean

like you either cleand it up in photoshop or really really stressed over the original linework.

id like to see a version before cleaning, if you have one.
If you did clean it up I'm thinking that you may have inadvertently erased away lots of the detail that went into it.

for a sketch I think its good to have some left over details and stray marks. somtimes it can help to give a sense of light values.

I think somthing this clean would be more for the begining stages of a full digital color piece. were the details would be added back in with the paints.

anyway.
good work. post more often
this forum is slow

Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:02 pm
by Masteroftheweb
Actually... my scanner simply removes alot of shading... I don't like that about it becuase it DOES remove detail...

Prime example,

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This picture is alot darker in paper format, but I'd say about 60% of the shading has been lightened and removed.

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Taken with my camera

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:39 am
by kaos
ah, the scanner thing. I hate that.
somtimes you can counter that with Ctrl + M

but somtimes that just makes it crap too.

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:42 am
by Bogey
just tweak with the brightness/contrast. That's what I do

Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:41 pm
by Masteroftheweb
I tried... it still loses so much detail...

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:34 pm
by Bogey
Also something good to get into the habit of doing is to scan in at a high resolution and reduce the image size once you've cleaned it up.

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 5:20 pm
by kaos
yeah.
about 300 dpi = perfect scale print
so i like to scan at 600 or 900 sometimes.

75 dpi should do if its somthing youre not going to print

Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 7:27 pm
by Chewi
That's why I never saw the point in 9000 dpi scanners or whatever they have now. What are you trying to scan in, an atom? My scanner is ancient but it does the job great and it's really thin, which is handy.

Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 6:56 am
by Descending Fate
the scanner is thin?

i personally don't consider you to be a bad artist there will.. /clap

Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:01 pm
by Chewi
Descending Fate wrote:the scanner is thin?
Yeah. You can easily carry it under your arm. Some of them are real chunky bastards.

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:18 am
by Mik
I have Scanner that could easily double as a WWI tank.