How can I enchance an artwork made from color pencils in Photoshop?

Question

Do I need to make it a line art?
Should I recolor it in Photoshop?

It will be more convinient if you can state links for tutorials like those?

Answer 1

Make the lines as dark as possible. Scan it.
In photoshop go to Select > Color Range > Shadows. (you can adjust brightness before to improve the selection)
That will select all the dark lines in your drawing,
then go to Channels, create new channel.
You will see you selected lines are white, go to Blur effect in filters, blur it, then press Ctrl + L for levels, adjust it so the lines are smoother then before, repeat a couple of times to get the smootheness down to a desired level.
Ctrl + Click on the channel to select the new better linework.
Go back to layers, fill in the selection with preffered color.
Then adjust levels again Ctrl + L, then adjust brightness and contrast.

You can also apply a neat filter, go to Filters and click on Artistic > Cutout.

Once you have you lineart down, simply enhance your original drawing colors by adjusting brightness and contrast.

Better linework that you did in the beginning should be over the original enhanced drawing.

You can also do Filter > Artistic > Cutout to make colors crispier and without any small lines on it.

That should give you the best line work there is.
That is what i do.

Hope i helped.

Answer 2

Well as far as tutorials, http://www.cgsociety.org has a lot of graduate and professionals that use photoshop and other programs, i'm pretty sure you can get some good links or tutorials from the features in the site.

Other than that.....what would you like to enhance on the artwork? Because there's an endless amount you can do to enhance it.

Answer 3

(Assuming it's a JPEG, BMP, etc.) With it opened in Photoshop go up to "Image" then "Adjust" and then click on "Auto Levels".

It will automatically adjust the photo (Correct color, sharpness, etc.). If it doesn't do what you wanted, just click "Edit" then "Undo" to get youb ack to where you started.

Hope I helped.

:)