super_almoner Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I'm currently looking for a relatively cheap, but still decent scanner (or printer/scanner combo) to scan line art and possibly watercolour. What do you recommend slash what is your method? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazrandus Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I use a HP PSC 4000 all-in-one scanner so it does both printing and scanning. It is fairly decent except the software can only be installed in windows xp or below for some reason so keep in mind the compatibility of the software to your operating system when buying a new scanner :) If you are interested, here are some examples: - pencil - colour pencil - lineart (felt-tip) Sorry I haven't scanned any watercolour stuff :( Good luck buying your scanner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 I invested in a Canon CanoScan Lide 700F 2 years ago. I don't draw a lot, but it's been useful to scan documents too. :P Main advantage of not using a all-in-one scanner is that you get a much better resolution if you buy just a scanner. For instance, my scanner is 9600 dpi and the one posted by tazrandus is 4800 dpi. Before owning a scan, I'd just use my camera to take a picture of drawing and retrace in photoshop. It's not as good, but it can work if you don't have anything else you can use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_almoner Posted August 20, 2012 Author Share Posted August 20, 2012 @tazrandus, I run Windows 7 so that's a shame since it seems to do the trick. I LOVE your drawings by the way! So awesome!!! @Xepha, I've been using my DSLR to take photos, but it's definitely not going to work for the webcomic I'm starting up. Hm, if printer/scanners have worse resolutions, maybe I should look at ones without. Though the printer would save me a trip to the basement every time I need to print :P To resize or compress artwork, you do that after the scan in the GIMP or some other program, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xepha Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Yep, once you have scanned your document, you can do any kind of touchup program such as Gimp, Illustrator, Photoshop, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
super_almoner Posted August 21, 2012 Author Share Posted August 21, 2012 Okay perfect! As for cleaning up the image for colouring, I'm not really sure how to go about doing that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tazrandus Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Here is a tutorial to help create a transparent lineart layer from a scanned image using GIMP, hope you find it useful :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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