Adobe Photoshop tutorials: Part 1

Part I: Scanning

So you've completed a piece of traditional artwork and want to digitally colour it in Photoshop. These tutorials will walk you through the basics of setting up your work file.

First step use either A4 Canoscan Lide 100/220 portable scanners or one of the two A3 scanners located in the studio to scan in your work.

The Canoscan and A3 Scanner (connected to iMac 11) can scan straight into Photoshop. Once you have plugged in the scanner and opened Photoshop, go to the top bar and choose.
File > Import > Images from device.

This will open a new window up called 'import images from device', make sure your resolution is set to at least 300 DPI and choose the folder you want to save you work in. I would suggest creating a folder on the desktop and saving there and moving you files to the Arts drive and your personal hard drive when you have finished for the day.

Then select the area you want to scan by dragging the mouse across the preview image, this make a dotted rectangle, anything inside it will be scanned. Then click the scan button.

                     

The image will open up in Photoshop as a .jpeg, you're now ready for the next stage which is cleaning up your artwork for digital colouring.

Note: If you are using the A3 scanner connected to iMac HS02 you will have to scan your art work in a different way using EPSON Scan. [You can get the application from the applications folder and drag it onto the task bar at the bottom]

Follow the same process as above and choose 'preview' and then select the area you want to scan, scan to your chosen folder and then open into Photoshop ready to edit.

Behance & Adobe live - Live Illustrator sessions

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Behance & Adobe Live

Wednesday 7th March - Thursday 8th March

Check out of Behance live stream today and tomorrow for interactive demos and talks

with a selection professional Illustrators who will be walking you through their techniques and brushes they have created. You can catch up with part one in the replay section.

Schedule (GMT)

https://www.behance.net/live/

'Rocky is an illustrator and designer who helps companies tell their story through illustrations and graphics, specializing in print, branding and UI/UX design.' - Adobe Creative Cloud

 'Mark is an American manga creator, artist and children’s book author/illustrator. He produces instructional drawing videos on YouTube and is the author/illustrator of more than twenty chapter books & graphic novels. His "Akiko" series has been featured in Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, and on CNN Headline News and he has been voted one of the “100 Most Creative People in Entertainment” by Entertainment Weekly.'  - Adobe Creative Cloud

 'Jax is an Art Director & Senior Concept Artist specialising in design and storytelling. She has worked in film, game, VR/AR, television, advertising, and IP creation for the past decade with clients such as Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment, SyFy Channel, Digital Domain, and Psyop. She also teaches & builds courses for the BFA & MFA programs in the School of Game Development at the Academy of Art University San Francisco. Some of her courses include Monsters vs Mechs, Character Design, and Digital Painting.' - Adobe Creative Cloud

'Kyle is an international award-winning illustrator who has drawn for The New Yorker, TIME, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Entertainment Weekly, Scholastic, Nike, IDEO, as well as many others. He is the creator of KyleBrush.com, the brand behind the world's best-selling Photoshop brushes for professional illustrators, animators, and designers. Kyle also currently teaches Life Drawing, Portraiture, and Digital Painting at UNC School of the Arts..'

 -Adobe Creative Cloud