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Tutorial: My Scanner Hates Me
Published: 2010-10-02 06:16:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 50300; Favourites: 1902; Downloads: 777
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Have you ever said the following?:a) "Help! My scanner has killed my marker art!"
b) "The colours look much better in real life."
c) "My scanner is a piece of crap/ hates me/ is evil!"
d) All of the above.
Fret no longer, as this tutorial will solve all your problems and then make you a cup of tea when it's done. Repair your scanned marker artwork in four simple steps.
Demonstrated in Photoshop CS4.
Find the featured artwork here [link] and a Copic swatch chart here [link]
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Comments: 128
this was really helpdul thank you! you know if you buy a bamboo tablet you get ps elements 7 and nik color filters (which is a really good plug-in to brighten/contrast, and etcetc. your artwork) 
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Thanks! And I love it when hardware comes with nifty software freebies like that 
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This is incredibly helpful! Thank you very much for putting this together. :3
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OK...I'll try...hopefully I'll be able to pull it off. 
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This is so helpful, you have no idea @.@
Thank you so much!!!!
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I like your informative yet comical style to delivering this helpful information! Good tutorial :3 I'll make sure to keep it in mind when I color next time
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thank you this will really REALLY help me ^^
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I love you!!! Haha sadly my scanner also likes to put a little yellow tint to my images, but for that I play with the brightness and contrast. But you are amazing I will try this when I upload my next picture
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*__* Awesome and very helpful, thank you so much for this tutorial! No more artwork corpses~!!
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OMFG this tutorial is a godsend. You are now on my list of heros.
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Cool beans. Do I get superpowers, or am I not that kind of hero?
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I think it's the typical super powers of flight and super strength.
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This is a great tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to do it. ^^
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While I don't do a whole lot of marker work, I think this will still be helpful for other colour drawings. Thanks very much!
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um when i scan one of my copic arts which has flourescent colors in it,it scans like a light color,how do i fix this in photoshop??
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Ahh.. all fluorescent colours won't scan because they are something called "out of gamut" with RGB (red, green, blue), which is how your scanner reads colour information. Because it's also how your computer monitor displays you will never be able to represent them very accurately. I should have mentioned this in the tutorial, because I have a fluro yellow that won't display.
The best option for you is to completely remove as much of the original colour from your image as possible (using the dodge tool) and replace it completely digitally with a bright substitute. It will never look identical, but because it's completely digital, it will appear more vibrant than the surrounding colours and go some way to replicating the fluorescent effect.
I hope this helps you.
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