Cleaning Scans In Photoshop (Page 2 of 3)

By Alanna (Solenna) Elias

Next, we will remove the lines. This is my favorite step because pictures look SO much better without stupid lines running through them. So we go up top to Image, then down to Adjustments, then finally to Hue/Saturation. Or you just hit Ctrl-U. Whichever.

Once you do that, this box will appear. This box is your friend. You can move the slidy bars and make pictures lighter or darker or brighter or different colours entirely but that's not what we're going to do right now. Even though it's fun.

What we WILL do though, is go to the box up top that says Master, and change it to Cyan. This means that only cyan (a greenish blue colour) coloured things in the picture will be affected.

So once it's turned to Cyan, take the slider bar under Lightness, and crank it up to 100. See how the lines start to go away? Change the box up top from Cyan to Blue, and that should almost totally get rid of them. Change it Magenta or Green if you really need to.

There we go. Now the lines are almost completely gone, and this picture would still probably get rejected. It's still smudged and pale and you can still see faint line remnants. Lets get rid of those shall we?

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FARP Article Guestbook Date Name Comment   2 Jun 2008 Jai "Jaybird" Foster Loading... Umm. I don’t have any of that fancy stuff...all I got is Paint and Microsoftword...which is what I use on pictures. Sooo, how would I do it on one of those??? 30 Sep 2008 Sexy Waffle #39 Loading... Thanks SOOOO much!! That was really really helpful, I’m so happy I found this tutorial Thanks again! ~<3 6 Nov 2008 Anon. Loading... This is amazing!!! I can finally get rid of those lines!! Thanks so much!!! 8 Jan 2009 Anon. Loading... thanx alot! 12 Mar 2009 Hans Loading... i´´d like to know what to do when the lined paper is not with colored lines. cause i´´ve tried this, fiddling a little after reading this tutorial, and it just pales the entire drawing. 1 May 2009 Marie walsh Loading... thanks this was realy great, ive only just got photoshop 6.0 and it looks a little different,but this will definutly help 24 May 2009 Aki Loading... Excellent tutorial! It’s really simple and helpful and I LOVE simple tutorials like these that point out SEEMINGLY simple stuff, coz not everyone has what some people call ’basic’ knowledge =) Thank you! 16 Jul 2009 Flarp Loading... good tutorial, but I still have leftover grey lines 16 Jul 2009 Flarp Loading... nevermind! I just figured it out! thanks for helpin out! 6 Aug 2009 Victoria L Smith Loading... Thanks so much!!! This helped tons! Page: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 Not signed in, Add an anonymous comment to this guestbook...     Your Name: Your Mail: B I U URL ? Click here to write something! Post Message!    Private message? (Info)

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