smoothing a line drawing

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mike
Sep 13, 2010
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I have a set of line drawings made in dark pencil on white paper. Sopme of the paper is a little creased and marked – generally the worse for wear, and some of the lines are relatively faint. I have been attempting to convert them into ‘tidy’ b and w line drawings with photoshop. Playing with levels, I can get rid of most of the creases and marls, but I would like the lines to appear smooth, evenly dark and unbroken. Any advice on how to convert lines of varying intensities to even smooth dark lines?

Mike
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Ragnar
Sep 14, 2010
"mike" wrote in message
I have a set of line drawings made in dark pencil on white paper. Sopme of the paper is a little creased and marked – generally the worse for wear, and some of the lines are relatively faint. I have been attempting to convert them into ‘tidy’ b and w line drawings with photoshop. Playing with levels, I can get rid of most of the creases and marls, but I would like the lines to appear smooth, evenly dark and unbroken. Any advice on how to convert lines of varying intensities to even smooth dark lines?

Mike

I don’t know th eanswer to your specific problem but it sounds like a job for Retouchpro http://www.retouchpro.com/
Not only will the contributors sort out your problem, you will also learn something along hte way.
HTH
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Ragnar
Sep 14, 2010
"mike" wrote in message
I have a set of line drawings made in dark pencil on white paper. Sopme of the paper is a little creased and marked – generally the worse for wear, and some of the lines are relatively faint. I have been attempting to convert them into ‘tidy’ b and w line drawings with photoshop. Playing with levels, I can get rid of most of the creases and marls, but I would like the lines to appear smooth, evenly dark and unbroken. Any advice on how to convert lines of varying intensities to even smooth dark lines?

Mike

I don’t know th eanswer to your specific problem but it sounds like a job for Retouchpro http://www.retouchpro.com/
Not only will the contributors sort out your problem, you will also learn something along hte way.
HTH
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jaSPAMc
Sep 14, 2010
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I have a set of line drawings made in dark pencil on white paper. Sopme of the paper is a little creased and marked – generally the worse for wear, and some of the lines are relatively faint. I have been attempting to convert them into ‘tidy’ b and w line drawings with photoshop. Playing with levels, I can get rid of most of the creases and marls, but I would like the lines to appear smooth, evenly dark and unbroken. Any advice on how to convert lines of varying intensities to even smooth dark lines?

Mike

Try "F1" then "Using the Threshold command".
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John Stafford
Sep 17, 2010
In article <N0Gjo.3445$>,
"Ragnar" wrote:

I don’t know th eanswer to your specific problem but it sounds like a job for Retouchpro http://www.retouchpro.com/
Not only will the contributors sort out your problem, you will also learn something along hte way.

That site is a wonderful example of everything wrong with retouching.

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