Electronic Clean-Up |

Electronic Clean-Up |

Electronic clean-up is a process which involves removal of excessive pencil or inking marks that were scanned in during the scanning process.  Since your scanner will scan at approximately  300 DPI (dots per inch), it will scan in the excess pencil marks you were not able to remove during the Erasing process and extra ink marks from the Inking process.  To achieve an effective electronic clean-up of your .JPG images, you will need to become familiar with the photo editing program's paintbrush features, and the different types of paintbrush styles installed on the program.  For example, a spraypaint style may help blend two colors together because it sprays is speckles until the area is painted as much as desired.  Also, a chisel tip brush is useful in achieving straight corners.  

Use white color to paint around the inked lines on your .JPG.  IF you zoom in really far (up to 1600% zoom), you can more precisely clean-up the excess marks on the .JPG than if you stay zoomed at a 100% view.  

To further clean up the image, use white color and the paint-bucket feature and "spill" white around the inked lines.  This will paint the background completely white, while leaving the inked lines nice and dark still.  This will take some practice to know the intricacies and tendencies of your photo editing program.