Creating Comics with Compelling Visual Narratives
Scanning and Cleaning Up Photos 1
A course by Reilly Brown , Comic Book Artist
About the video: Scanning and Cleaning Up Photos 1
Overview
“It's time to scan the complete drawing in to send it off to the editor! I will show you the scanner settings I use to define the dimensions and resolution of the image, and then I will start cleaning up my drawings using Photoshop. ”
In this video lesson Reilly Brown addresses the topic: Scanning and Cleaning Up Photos 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating Comics with Compelling Visual Narratives. Transform your written narratives into comics using the art of visual storytelling and character-building techniques..
Partial transcription of the video
“ Scanning and Cleaning Up Photos In the last lesson, we inked our pages. In this one, we'll scan them and clean them in Photoshop. Let's get started. The first thing I'll do is open up this Epson Scan icon and hit Preview. Preview is a way to just scan something in quickly so you can look at your image and make sure you're looking at the thing you want to be scanning in. Here is my first page of "Thunder Guardian" here. We'll move these crop lines over so that I only get the image that I want to scan it. I'm using an 11 x 17 Epson WorkForce scanner because that's the size of the paper. It ...”
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Course summary for: Creating Comics with Compelling Visual Narratives
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Category
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Areas
Character Design, Comic, Drawing, Ink Illustration, Pencil Drawing, Traditional illustration

Reilly Brown
A course by Reilly Brown
Reilly Brown is a comic book artist based in New Jersey, United States. A superfan of comics since childhood, he started self-publishing his own work in 2002. His career took off after that, collaborating with publishers like Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Archie, and Tantor Media on recognizable titles such as Deadpool, Spider-Man, Incredible Hercules and Lobo, and Batman. He’s known for his pioneering work with digital comics, having worked with Comixology to launch his creator-owned series Powerplay on mobile devices. He’s an active part of the comic world, making frequent appearances at conventions and comic book stores.
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