I have an old sketch made about 10 years ago. There isn't much shading but there are area's where the dirty paper from aging and wear really shows from my scanner. I scanned in top quality which shows the defects of the paper really well. How can I remove this so it looks like it's on a clean piece of paper?
2007-12-02 22:54:11 · 3 answers · asked by Sandfrog 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Scanners
You'd have to edit the picture using a good image editing program such as the free Gimp editor. http://gimp.org/ and then use a white color to touch it up. It might take a while, but the efforts would be better than trying to use a picture editor.
Also, if the picture is in .jpg format, it will always have some type of non white background, so after you clean your picture up, save it in a .bmp format, or .png format.
This isn't a detailed answer, but it should help point you in the direction you need.
2007-12-02 23:18:21 · answer #1 · answered by sinseer_1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The really "doh!" way is turn up the contrast and the brightness. You *did* scan in grayscale, right?
After that, it's a matter of cleaning up manually the areas that are obviously NOT a part of the sketch. There's no magic button you can push that'll do all that in a click.
2007-12-03 10:56:40 · answer #2 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what software you are using. With Photoshop it's easy as it has a magic eraser for such jobs. What software are you using?
2007-12-02 23:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by Pontius 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋