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DavesWag

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:01 pm    Post subject: cleaning up an icon Reply with quote

I have a character icon that I scanned (see it here) but the color is kind of patchy because of the high resolution. Is there some simple way to clean this up in Photoshop so that all the colors are nice and solid? I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks!
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You need to use one fo the lasoo tools, i would use polygonal, to select around the edges and fill in the inside, ill do it for you if you give me 5 mins or so
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That was my method of last resort. Thanks for the offer, but knowing what that entails, I can't ask someone else to do it.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

im doing it at this very second, its gonna take ages, but im doing it, so what the heck, ill carry on, ill upload it and give a link when im done
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh no, you can do it in a few minutes. Just make a BW version showing just the black outlines. (I did it from the red channel)
Then use paint bucket tool to fill-in solid colors.



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oh My God!!!!!!!!

What i have just spent the best part of 1 hour doing is such a waste of time, thanks cbadland, and sorry i i gave rubbish pointless adice DavesWag

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

(Do it my easy way but just tell them you’ve spent hours on it. That’s been my secret here at work for years. Brow)

Just to elaborate: Make a true high contrast just showing black outlines. (I based it on the red channel and adjusted with Levels.) Then I ran the Median Filter to smooth out the lines some. Then it's free sailing with Eyedropper and Paint Bucket tools.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Wow very well done...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just did it and it worked great...question the way I did it was to delete the other channels..but then it left me in multichannel mode?, I changed it to grayscale then rgb...I'm sure theres a easier way?
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I just did it easily in Channel Mixer..and it left me in RGB mode to add the color...Is there an easier way?
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