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Scanning your artwork

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Scanning your artwork

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- [Instructor] Now the first thing we need to do is get the illustration into the computer so we can open it in Photoshop and to do that we're going to need a scanner. You could also use a photocopy machine if they want to scan and email it to you or if you must, you can take a photo of it, but you do run the risk of kind of tweaking or warping the illustration a little bit if you don't photograph it straight on. This one is scanned in and there are a couple of things you need to know about scanning and the main thing is resolution. You've got to scan in at 300 dpi in order to have a good print quality when you print at the end of this. If you scan in at a low resolution, your final output is going to look really crappy. It's going to look all pixilated and raw. So what we want to do is make sure you scan at 300 and we do want to scan in full color and I just want to show you quickly what happens if you don't. So let me close this. This is just a plain old black circle that is in a…

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