scanner vs photograph Part 1 using a scanner - the difficulty of copying coloured pencils in moleskine sketchbook and some solutions
stage 3: Final image using scanner with adjustments in Photoshop I've been comparing scans and photographs of this little sketch of evening fields in coloured pencil in a moleskine sketchbook. I find coloured pencil can be difficult to reproduce. Scanners or cameras can pick up the top layers of colour too strongly (And I scumble lots of layers). With cream coloured paper they make it too white, using the cream for their white balance and that makes the whole image cooler. There may be better ways but this is the way I try to solve it: With the Scanner scan image into Photoshop or similar programme - I don't like to make the adjustments in the scanner if it isn't quite right, as photoshop has more options so I usually accept the scan as it is in Photoshop duplicate the layer look at options for the opacity of this laye r - this one needed 100% opacity but this is variable. This intensifies the colours without distorting them and doesn't usually darken the pa...