Photoshop Workshop

Using the ink drawings done last week to enhance/edit in Photoshop. The image below shows the original image which is covered in paper shadows (from the water affecting the paper) and has some unwanted ink spots on it. 

Original Scan of image 

Changing the levels of the image can enhance the white and black tones in the image, by doing this some grey tones are eliminated. When I changed the levels the grey tone of the paper was made white, so the background of the image looks flat rather than bumpy (good times).

Changing Levels

This process made the mid-tones lighter which, I think has made the image more successful as it looks more like the image does in real life but also makes it look less dark and dreary and more crisp. Plus the tape looks almost the exact colour of a real cassette.

I made another version where a lot of the mid-tones have been removed, making it just a black and white image as I wanted to see how the lines worked by themselves. I don't think this worked in terms of a complete image. The grey tones of the image worked well with the lines but by themselves the lines look kind of shabby, maybe this version could be used to add colour to digitally in a future session but I don't like it by itself.

An edited version