This guide assumes that the editor is working
with scans that have been made following my scanning guidelines, which, in
short, means that they are 300 dpi (or 360 dpi or greater), have never been
saved as jpg (always just PSD or other lossless format), and they need no
adjustment of levels (meaning shadows, highlights, and gamma or midpoint)
because this was done in the scanner settings. They will still need various
other methods of cleanup.
In this guide I will go through every step I took to edit this simple
scan, except text placement. By simple or easy I mean that there are no
sound effects and no text is placed over the picture—all text is inside
bubbles.First I start off with cropping the scan.
On the right is a picture of the raw at 25%. Notice that the book has
not been cut apart.
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Using the crop tool, I select
the entire page. Everything not part of the page is to be cropped off. This
top left image is the area right above Creed's ear on the left side, and this
bottom left image is the bottom left corner of the page. cropping exactly
to the bottom of the page makes the crop line only one pixel off near the
center of the page, so rotation is not necessary. Now, if an image extended
all the way up the side of the page, it would probably be off by 3 pixels
by the time it reached the top, which means it probably would need rotation.
The two right images (viewed at 50%) show the width of the inside margin.
The bottom right image shows that margin width is similar to the vertical
distance between panels. |
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