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Cleaning Scans In Photoshop (Page 1 of 3)
By  Alanna (Solenna) Elias
Being a mod, I see an awful lot of pictures. A lot are poorly cropped, or on lined paper (which is "illegal" in Elfwood), or incredibly pale, or smudged, or whatever. And it's annoying, because these problems can easily be fixed with 10 minutes and a computer program. As I have photoshop, that is what I will talk about. The method I use for removing the lines won't work with coloured pictures or delicately shaded pictures, but you shouldn't be colouring or shading pictures on lined paper anyways. It'll work for blue ballpoint if you're careful.
Change is good.
This is step one. I scanned a dragon I whipped up. Poor cropping. On lined paper. Smudged. This picture would get rejected instantly by the mods, and for good reason. The presentation is awful, and totally unprofessional.
So, we obviously have to fix it up real good. But the thing is, how?
First off, open up photoshop. This is what we'll be working with.
After photoshop is open, look for the crop tool, handily outlined in blue here. The first thing we're gonna do is trim the borders of this picture down to size.
So what you do is take the tool, start in one corner, and drag a box around the image. I usually start in the top left, but it's a personal choice. If you do it right, you should end up with a box around the main image, with everything outside of it shaded a darker grey. If you miss, and need to adjust the box, just click on the little boxes like the one the arrow is pointing at and readjust the box to fit. Then hit enter.
Aaaand, voila! The dragon, while still on lined paper and smuded and pale, is at least not surrounded by useless floating white space. Now lets get those blasted lines out of there!
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FARP Article Guestbook
| Date | Name | Comment | | | 22 Dec 2006 |  YuriGagarin | How do you remove the lines if the lines are black? This tutorial only refers to drawings drawn on blue or coloured line paper. | |
| 12 Feb 2007 |  Ulrich Lindqvist | I'm pretty sure the tools are analogous in Paintshop Pro, or anything else that costs less than $700US. If the picture is coloured or the lines are the same colour as the ink, I don't think there's a way to remove the lines that won't substantially change the picture (if it's supposed to be light grey in some parts), short of doing it pixel-by-pixel X(- The clone brush (in Photoshop, Paintshop Pro and possibly the GIMP, that I know of) is useful for this as it picks up adjacent colours as you move along. Anyone else, any other tips? | |
| 26 Jun 2007 |  Ashley N. Beerbroer | This didn't work for me at all. I have Photoshop 6.0 and I tried two diffrent pictures. When it didn't work on one that was inked I went to an older picture that had been lightened earlier but still had some annoying blue lines and that red margin line. I tried over and over but it did <i>nothing</i>. Did I do something wrong?? | |
| 13 Nov 2007 |  Caroline J. Anderson | Yay! It works with Serif Photoplus too!This is a good tutorial, especially as i do lots of grey pictures. | |
| 6 Feb 2008 | Anon. | Any thoughts on what to do if your page is black lined paper? | |
| 11 Feb 2008 | Boob | this sucks balls this will never work youball licking ****
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| 13 Feb 2008 | Steph | This helps me loads! Thanks alot ^^, | |
| 19 Feb 2008 | Squirellly | This is ridiculously simple, and I’m so glad you posted this. It’s one of those basic lessons you should really know. | |
| 22 Feb 2008 | Jeff | Pretty simple to do in PShop, though I don’t know why anyone would be drawing on lined paper like that anyway. Also, remember that even though PShop is hugely expense, there’s always GIMP and OpenCanvas for free. | |
| 4 Apr 2008 |  Roxanne Fuchs | Hey, thanks! I always have this problem, without drawing on lined paper even. I find when I sketch and scan stuff, it somehow scans in colours that are not on the paper (I think my scanner is not sealing properly.) | |
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