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 Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 1:17 am
sweatdrop Hope it's all right to ask here, the guild main page does mention illustration as part of the topics that can be discussed so... anyways, whenever I scan in artwork done with Prismacolor markers on marker paper, the scan ends up horribly distorted. The colors are very different from real life, it also happens if I take a picture with a camera. I realized that the paper itself is very shiny and reflective, so could this be the cause of the badly scanned pictures? I was wondering if anyone had a way to go around this, besides using another paper type. The reason I use the marker paper is because it absorbs the colors enough to allow blending, but not so much that it dries quickly. I've tried Bristol Board and while it works great for some looks, for the blended softly shaded marker look it doesn't work because it dries too quickly.
I've also tried just scanning and then working with the levels and color balance in Photoshop, but that was a no go as well.
I would be very grateful for any help given. I'm trying to use the marker artwork to create some designs for logos and webpages, but with the colors all warped like they are, I've been resorting to re-doing the pictures in Illustrator, which is fine and all, but some of the work requires the actual markers.
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:43 am
I completely understand your situation because it is very frustrating at times when working with rendered artwork being made by prismacolor markers.
I tried using color pencils to cover up the marker lines, but it's not a guaranteed solution when it comes to scanning.
The best way (and the only way in my opinion) is to stick with Illustrator when you're doing logo illustrations. Photoshop is pretty much the best solution for coloring line art. Sorry if this doesn't seem to help you much sweatdrop
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Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:06 pm
I don't know all the details about your scanner, but most scanning software will have several scan settings. Mine has several, for different types of originals. I have found that scan quality can differ greatly from 1 setting to the other.
But again, I do not know anything about your scanner and scanner software. If possible try playing with your input settings when scanning. that could help out a lot when scanning in original artwork on different paper types.
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