Photoshop Sessions

Part one of three Photoshop sessions in which we have been given the task of producing 5 different versions of one of our inked reference drawings that we produced in our Visual Language lesson. The sessions are mainly to get us to use some basic PS tools and techniques to clean up or tweak our hand drawn/inked/penned work and prepare them for print or for digital colouring. As a Photoshop veteran i am already well versed in these techniques, but you can't know everything and it's always handy to learn a cheeky new shortcut that you never knew about before! 

As it had thick lines and a bit of tone, I chose to have a play around with the image of some rag that i'd painted the week before.

Orignal scanned version

Using the LEVELS tool (cmd & L) i took out the texture of the paper for a cleaner look
and made the blacks 'pop-out' a bit more, whilst also keeping the grey mid tones visible. 

If you continue to play with the LEVELS further then you eventually lose
any mid-tones and you're left with just the startk black line work

  

Having a good old muck about with simple HUE & SATURATION effects and fades.
Also, using the lasso and magic wand tools i tried out a basic 'painted' version with no black lines