Scanning...

[Rellik]

I recently purchased some "professional" comic book art board. I would like to color my sequential work on the computer but unfortunately the paper is to big for my scanner. Has anyone else had this problem? Is there some other way I can make a size change to the original artwork before scanning? Any advice would be great.

[soul8o8]

Hmmmm, i don't really understand your question, but it seems to me you want to know how to get something that is bigger than your scanner area into your computer yes? and you want it in a good clean & holdsome resolution yes?

Well, i have 4 suggestions:

1) don't paint on the entire art board - draw some borders that define the size of the scannable area and keep your renegade artistic hands within those..

2) scan your art in 2 passes and then assemble those two images into one image - it's tricky but it works! I could describe some methods for doing it in photoshop but i don't know if you need me to.. yet :) (it involves moving around the rotation/scale pivot and creating gradient masks in the overlapping zone..)

3) if you're going to scan a lot then buy a bigger scanner!

4) hire someone to do it for you (someone that has access to a larger scanner..)


Well, you could take a picture of your art with a digi-cam, BUT! I wouldn't recomend it. Cameras distort the image and you'll have a hell of a time trying to get continious good lighting.

Ok, enough!