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Okay. So I did this line art from pencil and inked it. Erased and picked up all kinds of little marks n’ stuff, scanned it at 600 dpi,(that’s what this book says to do, FYI), went back in and cleaned it up again on the computer. It looked spotless.
Set the image to 300 dpi, converted it to greyscale, then to RGB, which is what I’m working in on accounta I’m just sending to my little Epson C80 Stylus. Also tried CMYK in case the mode was the problem.
Selected ALL
Went Edit>Copy then clicked to the right of the layers tab for Channels. Made a new channel and labeled it "line art". Made sure that the Color Indicates Masked Areas is checked. Made sure the color is pure black with 100% opacity. Clicked OK. The area went black.
Went to Edit>Paste
And there was the line art with what appeared to be *every* imperfection in the world *still there*. It was amazing. Like I’d taken a big black magic marker and went nuts with it.
So….my question is…..how do you get line art *clean enough*?
I wound up coloring it in a layer with the multiple blend mode selected. Looks great but I had to go back in and redo the ink work for that crisp black. Sure, this process is intended for CMYK but it looked like a time-saver if I could’ve worked in "flats" like I was hoping, from back to front. Ideas?
Thanks,
Martha
Set the image to 300 dpi, converted it to greyscale, then to RGB, which is what I’m working in on accounta I’m just sending to my little Epson C80 Stylus. Also tried CMYK in case the mode was the problem.
Selected ALL
Went Edit>Copy then clicked to the right of the layers tab for Channels. Made a new channel and labeled it "line art". Made sure that the Color Indicates Masked Areas is checked. Made sure the color is pure black with 100% opacity. Clicked OK. The area went black.
Went to Edit>Paste
And there was the line art with what appeared to be *every* imperfection in the world *still there*. It was amazing. Like I’d taken a big black magic marker and went nuts with it.
So….my question is…..how do you get line art *clean enough*?
I wound up coloring it in a layer with the multiple blend mode selected. Looks great but I had to go back in and redo the ink work for that crisp black. Sure, this process is intended for CMYK but it looked like a time-saver if I could’ve worked in "flats" like I was hoping, from back to front. Ideas?
Thanks,
Martha
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