Scanning |

Scanning |

After you have planned out your story, and have finished sketching, inking, erasing and storyboarding, you're ready to start scanning your work.  Scanning means taking a digital image of a piece of paper (in this case, one that you have your storyboard on).  When you scan the piece of paper, it becomes digitized, and stored on a computer or other digital storage or other handheld device.  Scanning is needed in order to paint the inked sketches, if you so choose to paint the images digitally.  You can also scan traditionally colored (painted or color-penciled) sketches into digitized form.

A scanner can scan and import image files into several different formats.  For easiest use, I suggest a JPG (also known as a JPEG) .  If the scanner exports the image file as a .PDF, you will need to then export or convert the .PDF file to a JPG file.  Most programs have an export function, and you will use that to export the .PDF to a .JPG.