How To Always Scan As Line Art?
Liku
I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
I, am the Somberlain. Join Date: 2003-01-10 Member: 12128Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Is there a way? If so tell me please!!!</div> Ok. When I draw something, I like it to all be black and white, which is Line Art, no greys. And my Scanner scans in various ways... Black and White, Illustration, and Line Art, probably more, but everything I scans black ink. I don't know how to set it to Line art all the time. Any clues on how to?
PS: Setting it to Line Art in PS makes it become grainy with black everwhere.
PS: Setting it to Line Art in PS makes it become grainy with black everwhere.
Comments
um... decrease the colours to 2... or something.... i cant remember how u do it
Just a recommendation as well.. scan in at line art at wacky-high resolution (I normally go for about 1200-1600dpi), clean the pixels, change to color or grayscale, do any coloring, and then resize down. If you resize down in line-art mode (aka: not converting to grayscale or a color mode) it can't dither/antialias the lines, so you get nasty jaggies at the lower resolution. As well, if you color at the lower resolution, it's very difficult to get an accurate flood fill or shading without white bits around the dithered lines.
Levels (Ctrl+L in Photoshop) and treshold are the same AFAIK, so just look either of them and start toying arouind with those three nodges. In my scanner drivers, theres only two options to adjust the scanned picture and another of them is treshold. But usually its just best to once calibrate the scanner and then adjust the high-res pic in PS for best quality.
//off-topic
Talesin your sig is very hypnotizing <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'll stick with PhotoShop. You can probably change Threshold with PhotoShop. And your Avatar/Sig's busted.
So you want to scan pure, dark lines only from picture as clearly as possible? Like black and white picture.
Then you just scan the picture normally (300dpi, grayscale (no black and white yet)) and in Photoshop choose Image - adjustments - Levels (or ctrl-L as I said). Cant supply the picture right now but use those sliders to adjust whats the darkest and lightest color which will be visible in picture. After this, theres only clean black ink drawn to pure white background.
<a href='http://koti.mbnet.fi/meki/pic/Piirroksia.jpg' target='_blank'>This isnt fully worked</a> picture but good example, too bad I cant show what it would like unmodified.