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Scanning Sketches
I had some sketches (simple pictures; color) made by an artist that I
would like to get into an electronic format. These sketches will be customized on the computer with text and then printed. I want them to retain exactly the quality how the artist drew them. I have a cheap HP scanner that doesn't seem to be doing this. Anyone have suggestions how to do this? In the future, would it be beneficial to find a computer graphic artist? I assume they would costs more to do this work. |
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ps.com... I had some sketches (simple pictures; color) made by an artist that I would like to get into an electronic format. These sketches will be customized on the computer with text and then printed. I want them to retain exactly the quality how the artist drew them. I have a cheap HP scanner that doesn't seem to be doing this. Anyone have suggestions how to do this? In the future, would it be beneficial to find a computer graphic artist? I assume they would costs more to do this work. How to scan graphics (line art). http://www.scantips.com/basics04.html The results depend on your skill in using your scanner and the tools you have available. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com -- |
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This should not be a problem, really. Scan in color (at least 36 bit
color), 300 or 600 dpi, and do a preview scan and adjust the 3 exposure controls (the names vary, I call them black level, white level and gamma, but you can find a good half-dozen names for each) to JUST not clip (at either dark or light ends) and for what looks like proper rendering of mid-tones. You should be able to capture the image just about perfectly, even with a relatively cheap scanner (cheap is usually ok, but it does have to be working properly). The problem is that most people don't really know how to use their scanner software, and for that matter don't know enough about light, color or photography to even understand the terms necessary to describe what is going on. wrote: I had some sketches (simple pictures; color) made by an artist that I would like to get into an electronic format. These sketches will be customized on the computer with text and then printed. I want them to retain exactly the quality how the artist drew them. I have a cheap HP scanner that doesn't seem to be doing this. Anyone have suggestions how to do this? In the future, would it be beneficial to find a computer graphic artist? I assume they would costs more to do this work. |
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"CSM1" wrote in message
et... wrote in message ps.com... I had some sketches (simple pictures; color) made by an artist that I would like to get into an electronic format. These sketches will be customized on the computer with text and then printed. I want them to retain exactly the quality how the artist drew them. I have a cheap HP scanner that doesn't seem to be doing this. Anyone have suggestions how to do this? In the future, would it be beneficial to find a computer graphic artist? I assume they would costs more to do this work. How to scan graphics (line art). http://www.scantips.com/basics04.html The results depend on your skill in using your scanner and the tools you have available. -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com -- I missed the color part. The above page is a good starting place, but you do need to scan in color. This page is a good starting place on getting great scans in color. http://www.scantips.com/simple.html -- CSM1 http://www.carlmcmillan.com -- |
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ps.com... I had some sketches (simple pictures; color) made by an artist that I would like to get into an electronic format. These sketches will be customized on the computer with text and then printed. I want them to retain exactly the quality how the artist drew them. I have a cheap HP scanner that doesn't seem to be doing this. Anyone have suggestions how to do this? There have been several good responses. I would add that we can help more if you either describe the problem you're seeing, or post example images on a photo site like flickr, and provide a link to them here. In the future, would it be beneficial to find a computer graphic artist? I assume they would costs more to do this work. Certainly, and you can also do it yourself, provided you have the time to spend. Use the money you save to go out to several fancy dinners :-) -- Mike Russell - www.curvemeister.com |
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Although your comment about color gamuts is entirely correct, in most
cases, as a practical matter to the untrained eye, the real issue is more one of color calibration than of gamut. While the printer (or monitor) can not reproduce every color, it can reproduce MOST colors EXACTLY, and it can get close on the rest. But if it isn't calibrated, it won't even be trying to reproduce the same color. [In this situation, calibration involves both the scanner, the display and the printer(s)] Bob Williams wrote: wrote: "I want them to retain EXACTLY the quality how the artist drew them." No Can Do!! No inkjet printer or scanner can reproduce the entire gamut of colors that are available in Artists' paints, pigments or inks. Going from an original color sketch to a scanned image to a print only compounds the problem of the limited color gamut of each device. Having said that, I must report that I have made inkjet prints of original Watercolor paintings that I scanned on my Canon 8400F, and printed on the same paper as the original with my Canon Pixma iP3000 printer that looked very close to the original. However,when placed side-by-side, subtle color differences were obvious. Bob Williams |
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