Just came across this video after what feels like weeks trying to find a coherent tutorial. This was extremely helpful as an artist who has just begun digitizing her artwork. Thank you so much! I know this video is fairly old, but would you be willing to make a tutorial of the manual process you described near the end of your video? I would like to learn how to rotate my scans as mine turned out a bit crooked using the photomerge option. Thanks!
Hey thanks so much for the comment! I’m glad you found it helpful. I can definitely add that to my list. I’m working on a photoshop for artists course at the moment so that suggestion is helpful for knowing what other things people specifically want to learn. 🙂 stay tuned!
Thanks so much for this awesome tutorial. As I am experimenting with this, the more scans added to the photo merge, the better the final result and a lot less blurring at the seams!
Hi Jane, thank you for the feedback! I’m working on putting together a Photoshop for Artists beginners class that will go through things a bit slower and in more detail. I can let you know when it’s available if you are interested. In the meantime you can slow down the speed of the video if you want by clicking the gear icon in the right hand bottom corner of the video screen. A little window will pop up and there should be a setting for playback speed. Make sure an ad isn’t playing when you try this or the setting won’t come up.
Your drawing is amazing!! I've wanted to make art prints for about two years now and have gone to many scanning services but have had not the best experience. I was wondering if you have any recommendations for scanners (and if you would recommend buying a scanner to someone who is just starting out). I noticed that when you zoomed up, the detail and pencil marks were very visible and I want to have scans that needs minimal editing to look as close as possible to the original. The ones I've had done in the past have either been terrible quality but good colour, or great quality but the colours are way off and are hard to edit back. Thank you 🌼
Hello! Thank you so much! Finding a good scanner can be a bit tricky. I use an Epson scanner that is built into my Workforce printer. It does a great job but, it can have a very heavy bias towards magenta and red in the scan so I almost always have to edit it in Photoshop afterwards. If you use a professional scanning service through a local printer they will likely be somewhat expensive but they will usually do all of the colour correcting for you. If you are going to scan and print your own prints I would recommend learning a little bit of Adobe Photoshop or even Adobe Lightroom is a good program that is a bit easier to use and focuses mostly on colour. You can purchase Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for each of those programs by themselves. Epson and Canon in general are great companies to buy scanners from in my opinion. A good artist friend of mine recommends the Epson Perfection V600 photo scanner. I have not tried this one but I trust his opinion. How clean and how much editing your scanned drawing needs depends on the original drawing to some extent. I scan my drawings at 600 ppi so that I can enlarge them later if I want to. You will almost always see the marks very clearly when you are zoomed in that close. That doesn't mean at the 100% or actual size that it will be that visible. A good quality scan will reflect what your drawing looks like in person at actual size. Another consideration is your computer screen colour might be slightly off which is why you are seeing such a difference in colour. Some artists only photograph their work and never scan it because they get a better representation of the work that way. That can come with it's own challenges as well though if you have limited experience in photography or don't have a good enough camera. I have done both and at times have photoshopped a photograph and scan together to get the right representation of something I used metallic paint on. Hope this helps and thank you so much for leaving a comment! :)
@@BarbSotiArt Thank you!! I really appreciate you taking the time to help. The Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner is actually one I was looking at. Thanks again
Hi Kelly! It’s hard to tell without being able to see your photoshop file but it could be a couple of things. The first thing I would check is to make sure you are using the latest version of Photoshop. Sometimes it gets buggy. You could try using a previous version of the program like Photoshop 2020 and see if you still get the same issue. If you’re trying to use the clone tool as opposed to the mask reveal and conceal paint brush you might need to change your setting in top menu where is says “Sample” to Current & Below. You will need to be clicked on the clone stamp tool to be able to see this menu that typically runs across the top of the photoshop window frame. Hope some of these suggestions help!
Just came across this video after what feels like weeks trying to find a coherent tutorial. This was extremely helpful as an artist who has just begun digitizing her artwork. Thank you so much! I know this video is fairly old, but would you be willing to make a tutorial of the manual process you described near the end of your video? I would like to learn how to rotate my scans as mine turned out a bit crooked using the photomerge option. Thanks!
Hey thanks so much for the comment! I’m glad you found it helpful. I can definitely add that to my list. I’m working on a photoshop for artists course at the moment so that suggestion is helpful for knowing what other things people specifically want to learn. 🙂 stay tuned!
Thanks for sharing your tips! I’m new to this process but I want to do this for several of my art pieces. 🙂
Thank you for leaving a comment! I hope this process is helpful for you!
Thanks so much for this awesome tutorial. As I am experimenting with this, the more scans added to the photo merge, the better the final result and a lot less blurring at the seams!
Hi Nicole! So glad you found this helpful. I know it was a game-changer for me!
Very helpful, to-the-point video! Thank you!
This was so helpful! Thank you! I wish I watched this video long ago, it would have saved me a lot of time!
Thanks so much for your comment! I’m glad you found it helpful 😃
This saved my art print. Thank you!
Glad I could help!
Thanks Barb, super helpful!
You’re very welcome! Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you
Loads of clear information...I could probably take more in if it was a bit slower, bit more time to make notes. I am a beginner!
Hi Jane, thank you for the feedback! I’m working on putting together a Photoshop for Artists beginners class that will go through things a bit slower and in more detail. I can let you know when it’s available if you are interested. In the meantime you can slow down the speed of the video if you want by clicking the gear icon in the right hand bottom corner of the video screen. A little window will pop up and there should be a setting for playback speed. Make sure an ad isn’t playing when you try this or the setting won’t come up.
Not QUITE a solution, but you can turn the video speed down to .75x if that helps any for ya.
Thanks. Super rad drawing
Thanks so much! :)
Your drawing is amazing!! I've wanted to make art prints for about two years now and have gone to many scanning services but have had not the best experience. I was wondering if you have any recommendations for scanners (and if you would recommend buying a scanner to someone who is just starting out). I noticed that when you zoomed up, the detail and pencil marks were very visible and I want to have scans that needs minimal editing to look as close as possible to the original. The ones I've had done in the past have either been terrible quality but good colour, or great quality but the colours are way off and are hard to edit back. Thank you 🌼
Hello! Thank you so much! Finding a good scanner can be a bit tricky. I use an Epson scanner that is built into my Workforce printer. It does a great job but, it can have a very heavy bias towards magenta and red in the scan so I almost always have to edit it in Photoshop afterwards. If you use a professional scanning service through a local printer they will likely be somewhat expensive but they will usually do all of the colour correcting for you. If you are going to scan and print your own prints I would recommend learning a little bit of Adobe Photoshop or even Adobe Lightroom is a good program that is a bit easier to use and focuses mostly on colour. You can purchase Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions for each of those programs by themselves. Epson and Canon in general are great companies to buy scanners from in my opinion. A good artist friend of mine recommends the Epson Perfection V600 photo scanner. I have not tried this one but I trust his opinion.
How clean and how much editing your scanned drawing needs depends on the original drawing to some extent. I scan my drawings at 600 ppi so that I can enlarge them later if I want to. You will almost always see the marks very clearly when you are zoomed in that close. That doesn't mean at the 100% or actual size that it will be that visible. A good quality scan will reflect what your drawing looks like in person at actual size. Another consideration is your computer screen colour might be slightly off which is why you are seeing such a difference in colour. Some artists only photograph their work and never scan it because they get a better representation of the work that way. That can come with it's own challenges as well though if you have limited experience in photography or don't have a good enough camera. I have done both and at times have photoshopped a photograph and scan together to get the right representation of something I used metallic paint on. Hope this helps and thank you so much for leaving a comment! :)
@@BarbSotiArt Thank you!! I really appreciate you taking the time to help. The Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner is actually one I was looking at. Thanks again
@@aoifemcveigh880 Amazing! Glad to help,and good luck :)
Thank you!
Do you know why 1 of the merged images won’t let me clone but the other one does? The layers aren’t locked.
Hi Kelly! It’s hard to tell without being able to see your photoshop file but it could be a couple of things. The first thing I would check is to make sure you are using the latest version of Photoshop. Sometimes it gets buggy. You could try using a previous version of the program like Photoshop 2020 and see if you still get the same issue. If you’re trying to use the clone tool as opposed to the mask reveal and conceal paint brush you might need to change your setting in top menu where is says “Sample” to Current & Below. You will need to be clicked on the clone stamp tool to be able to see this menu that typically runs across the top of the photoshop window frame. Hope some of these suggestions help!