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Alternatively, if you want to maintain the texture of the watercolor paper.. you could scan in blank watercolor paper and then double or triple it. That way you get the texture as well.
Wow 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻thank you Allison for making this video it was extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you 😊 for always sharing your knowledge with fellow artists and likeminded individuals who want to learn and don’t know where or how to begin.
Thank you for this amazing video! can you make a video of how you refill your inks? and can you please compare the prices of the 2 options of refiling the inks?
I'm glad you liked the video Sara! Perhaps I will soon! I found this video helpful, you may too: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-S4rKF5kumE4.html
Have you ever taken photos of your drawings with a camera for prints? If so, what were your results with that vs. scanning? I’ve seen other artists scan their massive paintings with big scanners, and others that take photos, and I wonder what the differences are in terms of quality. I take RAW photos of my artwork for prints and edit them in photoshop to correct colors. The only draw back to taking photos is that you have to pay attention to the lighting amount in the room you take your photos from because different times of days change the color of the light in the room, and this changes the colors of your art and can make dark colors not look so good.
Hi Jessica! Sorry for the late reply. I think taking photos of your art instead of scanning is just fine! I recommend scanning for watercolor paintings because the paper most times isn't perfectly flat. But other artworks RAW photos are great!
I found one of those scanners for $30! Idk why but the scanner on my 2760 epson won't scan.. it says there's no cord connected and I don't have the patience to mess with it
This is so much help! Merry Christmas Allison! 🎁 🎄 And a Happy New Year 🎈🎊🎆 I can’t believe it’s almost 2021! Are you ready for a brand new start?! I love your videos! Keep it up!
You hide the paint bucket layer before saving as a png (click on the eye icon in the layers tab). The paint bucket filled layer is just to help you better see what needs to be cleaned up ☺️
Hi Allison, thank you for all of your wonderful videos. They are very helpful! I'm hitting a road block. When I convert the PNG from RGB to CMYK it changes the colour of my art back to the dull scanned version. I've tried to watch your video closely, and it doesn't like the colour of your butterfly changes when you do it. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Do you know what the issue/solution could be?
Hi, first video that I watch from you, very well explained. Can you point to a video where you explained the embellishment please? Because I was trying to scan some shimmery color and it didn't go well. Do you know how to scan glitter/shimmer paint? I read that it's best to take a picture and combine it with a scan but I don't own a good camera for that. Thank you !
Hey! I haven't yet made the video about embellishing prints, hopefully I can soon. Shimmery paints are hard to scan, I have issues too! Most of my paintings with a lot of shimmer I end up making into embellished prints where I paint over the shimmer part of the scan. So that usually takes care of it. But if I make prints that aren't embellished, I do have to edit out all the glitter in Photoshop and it takes a long time. I'd suggest making embellished prints and embellishing the areas where there is shimmer. I hope that makes sense. I wish I was of more help.
@@AllisonLyonArt Thank you very much for you answer :) It is difficult to scan it indeed, mine was unusable :p And I don't know how to fix that in photoshop. Since it's for print on demand, I can do it myself when it's printed. I hope you'll find a solution and share it with us ;) Good luck! And thank you for the videos.
your videos are so helpful! i ave a question though, my prints arent as crisp or "sharp" as the original. like the lines are more blurry or not as crisp you could say. would you know how to fix that? its watercolor prints and i print them on matte paper but the settings are on 600 dpi. any suggestions would be helpful
Maybe try to sharpen them in Photoshop? I always sharpen my prints. And I know you said you scan them at 600dpi, but make sure the actual print is at least 300dpi. You could have the print be as high as 600dpi too, it just might take up a lot of space on your hardrive. Hope that helps!
