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

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Spinless:
I used to use a mouse to draw. Now I use my laptop's track pad. The way I see it, it's just another tool like a pencil. You can use a pencil? You can use a mouse.

Y'remember Mac Hall? Mouse.

salamander13:
Sometimes, like when i discover Adobe hasn't been installed to my laptop, I start in Paint to clean the obvious stuff. Say what you will about Paint, but when you need to do the basics, and don't have photoshop, use it. I like being able to zoom in easily and then just use white pencil and erase pixel by pixel. It take a little while, but you can really fine tune some things if you're using a mouse, and not used to the transition. After that, save as a .png, or you get blurring, which sucks. Then i usually load it into Adobe and get rid of some of the other messiness that results from my scanner being crap, and finish touching it up.

Neskah:
I used to work with a mouse, then got a tablet, but retracing my scans was a pain in the arse even with a tablet. I'd get sick of staring at the same picture over and over again.

Now I adjust the levels of my scans, and using the select colour range option select only the dark tones. Create a new layer and then stroke it. It's saved me a lot of time and pain.

KharBevNor:
Do none of you people have Illustrator?

caseyyano:
Here's a random tip:

If you happen to draw something on graph paper or notebook paper you can erase the guidelines in Photoshop.
You scan the image in "color" from your scanner. Go to the channels tab and select the blue channel. Select the dotted circle.
Invert the selection, create a new layer, and fill the selection with black. The image will become grayscaled and the blue channel should be removed.

Add a white BG under that layer and now you have your drawing without guidelines.
For clean up purposes, adjusting the contrast and brightness works though it is basically the same as adjusting the levels. If there's a lot of smudginess and dust, drawing larger is better. If you draw with a pen it looks a lot more clear.

If you plan on drawing over pencil lines you may want to draw over it sloppily and just erase away the unnecessary part. Setting an opacity a bit lower on the layer may help you identify where you're drawing over your sketch/drawing. Illustrator will create lines that come with line weights and if you understand how it works your image will look ultra crisp at any size and that's awesome for logos and whatnot.

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