Using ADOBE products, How can I turn a pencil drawing into a graphical image? Which software to use? steps?

I really need this answered so i can complete an informal design project for school. The only way for me to get my idea out there is to draw it out with my pencil and then somehow open it up in Illustrator or Photoshop and then make the lines smooth so it looks great as a graphical image.



I will eb drawing a fairy as the center focal point of the design using floral designs all around her. The entire design will have the appearance of the fairy floating in the air with the florals behind her. It'll almost look like a tattoo design, but I need it to look graphical, not like a pencil sketch.



Thanks.

Using ADOBE products, How can I turn a pencil drawing into a graphical image? Which software to use? steps?
No no no. Draw your image in permanent BLACK marker. A brand new thin sharpie works fine. Keep a few on hand so that it doesn't get old and icky looking.



Next scan the sucker in.

Open in photoshop. Adjust the contrast so that the white paper is at it's whitest and the black lines are dark as can be.

SAVE SAVE SAVE!

Open the image in illustrator.

Convert to live trace.

Expand.

Ungroup all.



Now you should be able to color and change sizes and shapes of everything. If this is going to be on the web, make sure it was scanned at 72dpi, for print, I like a nice large file of 300dpi! But if it's going to be kind of small, 150 should be fine, however once you convert to live trace it's all vector anyways so it won't make too much of a difference.



Good luck.
Reply:if you have a scanner or digital camera, you could upload to computer and import to illustrator, only latest versions have live trace, and that you would use to re do lines in vector format, or you would manually need to trace over lines, then fill with colors,



if you're drawing is clearly outlined, you could import to photoshop, duplicate layers, increase contrast of black lines on white, clear grays and edges with eraser, delete all white ,

and fill with colors,



otherware,

Scan2CAD,

http://www.softcover.com/frame_demo.htm

GIMP - Windows installers

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.h...

Inkscape Illustrator

http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape...

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Reply:What I suggest, is making your lines REALLY dark and prominent, making sure there isn't a lot of stray marks on the paper. Scan it into Photoshop. There, using the magic wand selection tool, you can select your darknened lines (my suggestion is to zoom in till you can see pixels so you don't miss any) and fill them in with black on a separate layer (just in case you f'up. Then, you can use the blur tool to soften them. If you need to fill in color, go back to the layer where you filled in the black lines and select everything you need to fill in with a certain color. Go to a new layer and do your magic there and move it UNDER the layer with the dark lines, so it looks smoother.



As a finishing touch, I suggest duplicating the image, merging all the layers together, duplicate that solidified layer, go to the layer pallete, change the lighting to hard light, go up to your filters, apply a gaussian blur of roughly 3.4 px. This always gives my graphics a dreamy look to them and they look more professional.



I REALLY hope this helps you.