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Scanning Comics: How to color? How to clean up?

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Sherwood WindRunner:
It takes a while to clean up my scanned comics. Even then, it sorta looks like crap.


So, how do you scan your comics? (If you do)

tomselleck69:
Scan in greyscale at a high DPI. I scan at 300 dpi, but I think most would suggest going even higher. In photoshop, I use levels to make the blacks black and the whites white. Levels is pretty common, but there are certainly other ways to do this.

What is your inking situation like? This is important probably.


And coloring... is a mystery to me.

jeph:
600dpi is pretty standard if you're working in black and white. Sammy Logan swears by it. 300dpi is fine if you're gonna color shit.

Levels, threshold->128 to get rid of antialiasing, then use BPelt a la my tutorial.

C Patrick Carolan:
I scan at 300dpi and then colour in Photoshop... but I clearly really don't have a damn clue what I'm doing. Gradients and shading are a mystery to me.

A good way to clean up line art before colouring is to adjust the contrast on the image. I crank it to like 90 at least, and also punch up the blacks. I find it takes care of a lot of the stray grays and erased pencil marks from the original art... on that note, it helps if your art is really clean before you even scan it in to start with, but that should go without saying.

jeph:

--- Quote from: C Patrick Carolan on 05 Dec 2007, 18:06 --- erased pencil marks

--- End quote ---

Get a non-photo-blue pencil! They don't show up on scanners and will save you from having to erase your pencils.

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