Question on designing your art: do you do your design on paper first?
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Question on designing your art: do you do your design on paper first?
Question on designing your art: do you do your design on paper first?
I taught myself how to use photoshop about 3 months ago, and still have only scratched the surface.
My question is for you professionals, when you design shirts, do you do your design on paper first then scan it and outline it somehow, or do you do all your designing work on photoshop without ever touching a pencil?
If you draw it first free hand, how is the best way to then make it look good on phothshop, by adding colors and such?
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I usually draw on paper then scan the drawing into PS. But I just got a wacom tablet and I've been experimenting with drawing directly into PS... Mostly I draw, scan, apply levels and import into illustrator to apply live trace to get an eps.
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usually draw on paper then scan the drawing into PS. But I just got a wacom tablet and I've been experimenting with drawing directly into PS... Mostly I draw, scan, apply levels and import into illustrator to apply live trace to get an eps.
Same here yet I skip the levels and bring into Corel for PowerTrace. I normally scan as black & white, adjusting in the super hig res.
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Originally Posted by ottie35
When you say you apply levels, what do you mean by that? What does that do?
I usually find that the scanned line contrast is a bit wash out (I scan in grayscale mode)so in photoshop I apply the 'auto levels' to darken the line contrast and keep small areas from washing out. I'll apply the levels by hand if the 'auto levels' does not do the job....
Re: Question on designing your art: do you do your design on paper first?
im the same way, i have limited art ability. So when you are like us, what is the best way to make that art look good on the computer? Are there particular tools or techniques you guys use to make it look better?
Re: Question on designing your art: do you do your design on paper first?
For me it depends on what I am doing. I may make an initial sketch on paper. Or if I feel like it would be better done on paper then I do that. Sometimes I even do some initial layout work or text on the computer, print it, and then embellish it with ink or such and then rescan it. For the most part I have gotten lazy and have gotten away from my hand skills and rely more on the computer.
My teacher always told us to do everything on paper first. I even had someone look at my portfolio once and criticize my lack of thumbnail sketches.
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Re: Question on designing your art: do you do your design on paper first?
Live trace is a feature of Adobe Illustrator (some other programs have the same feature under a different name) that converts raster images to vector. When used on scanned hand drawn images it will sometimes help give you the result you want (smoothing out lines your hand may have wavered on for example).
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