You can always sandwich your trace sheets between two pieces of acetate and then run them through a large format scanner. I have always found this to work well.
Acetate (large clear sheets that look like overhead transparencies) can be found at any good art supply store - or online from Charette.
I find that using a conventional scanner is fine with trace if I lay a sheet of plain white paper behind it (trace> white paper> scanner lid) then I make sure to scan at a fairly high DPI and I have rarely had any problems. A little contrast/brightness correction in photoshop and that pretty much does it.
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Trace Paper
How do you guys document your drawings done on trace. When I scan them they look awful. Should I try photographing them?
i photcopy them then scan the b&w copy.
I usually use the large format oce scanner, & then work some magik in photoshop.
its called bung wad...dude!
ahem ... i believe "Bumwad" is the correct term
that you for the insight and spelling...btw never use ahem... it is damn rude!
Mahler: i apologize ... it was not my intent to be rude
OR...
You can always sandwich your trace sheets between two pieces of acetate and then run them through a large format scanner. I have always found this to work well.
Acetate (large clear sheets that look like overhead transparencies) can be found at any good art supply store - or online from Charette.
Wow! Mahler has control issues.
Make -em grayscale?
-or Do any of you guys like the look of smears, and smudges or is just me? Not wrinkles and creases in the paper, but those dark spots.
I hate the way it feels to step on trace paper. It 1. feels like I'm gonna fall, or 2. feels like I'm really ruining someone's pin-up to come.
Your still using trace paper....thought we had all gone paperless.
I find that using a conventional scanner is fine with trace if I lay a sheet of plain white paper behind it (trace> white paper> scanner lid) then I make sure to scan at a fairly high DPI and I have rarely had any problems. A little contrast/brightness correction in photoshop and that pretty much does it.
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