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Published: 2015-02-09 20:59:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 8457; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 433
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Commission for Ahh, I haven't used watercolours for sooo long, almost forgot how to paint with them Β Need more hours than 24 in a day Β to practice both digital and watercolours *please give me a time-turner*Thanks for viewing!
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Your watercolours scanned so well! 
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Thank you!Β
There are two main tricks to make a picture clean:
1. While scanning or after that it's important to adjust Brightness and Contrast. This helps to remove most 'dirty spots'. But it's important to have a balance, picture should still have its original colors!
2. After this I choose a soft brush, pick the main bg color, create new layer and start coloring
This may sound silly but I also do the following: stand and look on picture from above, sit under the table and look on it from below
Btw what paper do you use?
Also I'll try to make a little tutorial) I think there is another and better way to clean up watercolor pictures after scanning, but hope this one will be useful too^^
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I tried playing with the brightness/contrast, but it just makes it worse than the default settings. The white of the paper becomes gray, or the subtle colours disappear and it looks like an overexposed photo. Maybe the scanner is just dumb :[
I've never heard about the trick with the main bg color. Do you paint over everything? What setting is that layer on? And when you change position to look at the painting, you mean the scan on the screen, right?
I use Fabriano or Canson paper. They are specifically made for watercolour and are nice to work with. I don't think it's a paper problem, I've been using these papers for many years and they scan well in other scanners.
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Trick with bg works only with white background. That's strange thatΒ brightness/contrast doesn't help... Did you try to apply hue/saturation and variants (ps color correction )?
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I definitely tried any Photoshop adjustment I could think of, and I'm not new to those, but when you just have a bad (missing information) base image, there's no point.
Anyway! Today I made a test and scanned the same paintings in a different (professional) scanner and they turned out much better. It turns out that my scanner really is just bad. It's a low-end HP. I've had better results with low-end Canon in the past, and people say Epson is great as well, so... if any other artist buying a scanner sees this, take note. Thank you for all your help Olcha. keep being awesome
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No problem at all!^^
Keep on good work
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