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Published: 2006-04-05 03:21:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 2606; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 151
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It's such a shame that so many people submit pencil and ink drawings to DeviantArt but don't know how to scan them correctly to give them the correct impact.This tutorial explains how to set up your scanner for this particular kinda of image.
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My problem is not scanning my drawings, but that my drawings are too big for my scanner...lol. I've been relying on taking pics of my drawings with my digital camera, which aren't coming out the way I want them. My drawings are 11x14, scanner will scan images legal document size. Any suggestions on that?
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I think there'sa a tut for just that:[link]
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Nice tutorial. I know a lot of deviants who could benefit from this, myself included. Now all I need is a scanner...
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ha ha, the same technique can work in photoshop on digital photographs in the levels menu... if you have photoshop!
keep it up,
Spence
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Nah, all I gots me is a digi camera and the super hi-tech microsoft picture editor.
Does the trick (just about), but I always feel like the details just haven't come across.
Btw, lovin' that cheesy avatar pose.
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Very nicely put together; I never thought of drawing control squares in my own images but now I think about it that's what they do in professional printing 
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Yep, professional photographers often include a shot with a white, middle gray and black card in them along with whatever transparencies or digital files they give to repro companies or the designers (depending on if its transparencies or digital!).
The calibration bars you'll see in printers marks are actually for checking screen angles when printing. You know when you see a billboard and there all those tiny dots, or if you look at a newspaper or magazine with a magnifying glass or linen tester ([link] )?
That's each ink set up to print on a different angled grid, called the screen angle. I'd have to check my notes to tell you the standard screen angles, but changing them in quark or indesign can lead to some interesting effects related to moire ([link] ).
I hope that didn't bore you too much! I'm a print geek so I find it quite interesting!
Spencer
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Not at all, I didn't know anything about this screen angle stuff, but I know about moire
Keep up the swatting
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Update:
I used some incorrect terminology.
In Photoshop Levels, the "Shadow", "Midtone" and "Highlight" are actually referred to as "Black Point", "Gray Point" and "White Point".
Using all three allows you to tweak the color balance of color images.
Spencer
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This would have been helpful IF I had photoshop. -Scratcheshis head-
Hats off to you anyways ~ I'll keep this in my favorites for faster access.
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In the tutorial it mentions that some scanner software (but usually not the built-in windows or mac one) will have the same options, so you don't neccessarily need Photoshop for it. I've just had photoshop for as long as I remember and Epson don't have any standalone software for the mac as far as I know!
Spencer
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Oh hey! Hp Image Editor has these options! Now 'this' IS going to be useful!
I'm so unobservant these days.
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