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  • Digital Hair Coloring

  • Digital Lips Coloring

  • Blushing Highlights

  • Clean-Up Drawings

  • Fixing Color Scans


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    • CLEANING SCANNED DRAWINGS IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP




    This best applies with black & white drawings, using anything from pencil to ink. If you're like me, and have a really crummy scanner that makes your artwork have a nasty yellow tinge and dark around the edges, this tutorial is right for you.

    It's simple and easy to get a "professional" clean look.
    We're using Reita here for our demonstration.




    Scan your artwork into Adobe Photoshop. It doesn't matter which version you use, because they all have the same feature. Since I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, the placement of your tools may be different then mine, so you might have to do a little bit more searching.

    Thumb in ctrl + U on your keyboard and a small screen will pop up, like the one shown on your left.

    Move the Saturation notch all the way to the left side (-100). This will make you drawing black and white. You can skip this step if you've already scanned your drawing in grayscale.


    Next you want to darken your shading if your scanner made your drawing lighter. Enhance > Brightness/Contrast > Levels... Or thumb in ctrl + L

    Play around with the notches to get the darkness you want.

    - The white notch makes the white areas lighter.
    - The grey notch makes the middle shadows dark/lighter.
    - The black notch makes the deep shadows darker.





    Lasty is getting rid of the shadows along the edges if your drawing. You know, the ones that show when you don't place your paper flat against the scanner.

    Pick up the white color of your drawing with your eyedropper. You're doing this so that the shade of white you're applying will match with the white already present.

    Then take your airbrush and lower your opacity to around 30 or lower. Use a large brush and delicately run it along the edges so that it erases the shadows. You're using a large brush with a low opacity so that your airbrushing will blend it more neatly and discretely.

    Keep an eye on the opacity, lower it and heightening it when you feel it's necessary. For delicate, finer areas, use a smaller brush (in this case, the parts between his hair)

    Onto Basic Photoshop Coloring >>
    See Reita put on some color!
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