Scanning Question

[The Soulforged]

New to the forums here... Just had a question about scanning drawings and sketches in pencil for coloring in painter, does anyone know of anyway to remove the grain from the paper so you can use the magic wand to get the sketch down to just the outlines. Or is going over all the lines and deleting the original the best way around it?

[Maidith]

If you want to color your scanned sketch that has a white background, you just can put a new layer on top of it, set the mode to "Multiply" and then go wild with the brush. Just try it :)

[Mirana]

I have a very old, but still viable tutorial on scanning, adjusting and creating lineart here (http://hikarikat.com/mirana/tutorials/lineart/). In particular, the adjusting in figure-2 should help you with your inital problem. The "creating lineart" filter should help eliminate the need for magic wand. If you have any questions, PM me.

[Rabid]

I find I just work over the grain and it adds a nice texture after a couple layers of color it all dissappears mostly...

[sicko]

never use the magic wand for stuff like this.

[The Soulforged]

Thanks alot for all the responses, I'm gonna try every one out tonight.

I guess I should have mentioned I'm on Painter X. I've got a copy of an older photoshop somewhere, unless I can do the said techniques on Painter as well?

[Mirana]

You should use them both as needed. Photoshop is the only way to use the filter I offered, but it's easy enough to work in one program and switch to the other.

[The Soulforged]

If you want to color your scanned sketch that has a white background, you just can put a new layer on top of it, set the mode to "Multiply" and then go wild with the brush. Just try it :)

I tried this, I didn't see, or understand, the effect it had, it looks like I just put a layer on top and colored over the lines. I'm probably doing something wrong.

[Flake]

You need to paint under the multiply layer. Your layer stack should look something like this.

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3774/layerstackoi5.gif (http://imageshack.us)

And now you can paint , doodle and smear away under the lines without affecting them at all.

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9224/underlinesok9.gif (http://imageshack.us)

[The Soulforged]

You need to paint under the multiply layer. Your layer stack should look something like this.

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/3774/layerstackoi5.gif (http://imageshack.us)

And now you can paint , doodle and smear away under the lines without affecting them at all.

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9224/underlinesok9.gif (http://imageshack.us)

Oh ok, so why set the layer to multiply, the other settings have the same effect.

[Flake]

Not really, play around with it and you'll see.