This session's Workshop revolved around us taking the A5 photocopies we'd created from our plan sheets in the Initials brief and Fixing them to be worked on digitally in photoshop.
As is plain to see - the first scans of these left a lot to be desired - between the original quick sketches and the quality of the photocopies, the scans were looking very rough indeed.
The first task upon importing the images into photoshop is to improve the quality of the scan - and the line quality of the scan as well. Often the scans are full of artifacts, which can often effect the way line appears and also the quality of the background we work with.
I fixed these scans with the Spot Healing Brush/Clone stamp tool and the lasso tool. To change the lighting and tone of the scans, I used the curve and level tools - this also came with the added benefit of making the lines a lot crisper and making them absolutely black.
After fixing the scans I realised a lot of the images had a pretty poor line quality largely due to the speed in which I'd drawn them at the time. To remedy this I just used the brush tools to even our the lines and make them look a lot more polished.
These techniques will come in handy in future when it comes to working in a hybrid traditional/digital manner on a larger scale.
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