Upload

The Final Steps of this process is uploading it onto Photoshop.

You’ll want to quickly hit your picture with an eraser once the ink is completely dry to remove all graphite lines showing outside of the ink. By doing this you simplify the colors into black and white, while removing any grays.

This is important because during this step, you’ll be dividing the picture into black and white, and grays can often muddle the image.

You don’t need it to be perfectly black and white, but the cleaner your image is, the smoother the transition onto the computer will be.

You also want a place with good lighting, natural lighting being recommended. When taking the picture avoid casting shadows on the image, while uploading an image shadows show up as grays and can threaten the hard work and detail you put into it.

Taking the picture is the most critical part of this step. You want something close so its in better focus and when uploading it, this avoids major pixalization. However, if taking the picture too close it can cause distortion due to the lens used.

If using your phone to take the picture, a pro tip to get the maximum pixels per inch, and least amount of distortions is to take it from a distance, but zoom in. The distance will help fight the distortion, but by zooming in, you get the max amount of information in the picture.

Next, download the image on your device with Photoshop. Whether you’re using a hard drive, airdrop, or emailing it to yourself, any technique to transfer the picture onto the desired device will work for this purpose.

Next upload the image onto Photoshop. If your device allows you to you can drag and drop, or you can go to file -> open -> then select the downloaded image you want to open.

Next, you will select image in the top left of the screen. In the drop down menu you want to select mode, then gray scale the image.

Go back to image, select mode, but then this time you want to choose bitmap. Set it to a 50% threshold, then hit OK.

Finally go back to image one last time, select mode, and put it back into gray scale. Make sure

when you gray scale it this time, the color is in RGB. This will allow you to print it off if desired.

If you’re wanting to color it within Photoshop, you’ll have to do one additional step. Choose select in the top left hand corner, then go down to color range. Using the dropper, select white. This will outline everything white on the line art; from there delete the white coloring and it will only leave the black outlines the image.

Now you can add layers on Photoshop and color away. As long as you have your outline layer at the top of your layers, you’ll be able to color without having to worry about covering your lines.

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