How To Scan A Drawing Onto A Computer

Take you ever get bellyaching when you try to draw online by using a mouse, or your finger on the touchpad? You but can't draw equally perfectly every bit you want, or as the same as drawing in real life.

I'g surely one of those who had! Well, if you had read my breaking addictions mail service and finding out what you want mail service, you will know what I'yard talking nigh.

Here is what happened:

(FYI her proper name is Emily)

To be honest, I'yard bang-up at drawing in real life. But whenever I try to draw with my laptop, fifty-fifty with a stylus on Mac'due south touchpad (Yup! It's possible), I but tin't…

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What I want to draw v.southward. What happened on my laptop

To stop people from misunderstanding me as being bad at drawing, I institute a way to digitize my mitt drawings into computers by using an iPhone. I don't even need to download any new applications.

This is the result. It's not perfect, but information technology looks better than drawing with a mouse or my finger. And here is how I did information technology:

Stride one: Create A New Note on iPhone

There is a default application on iPhone called "Notes". If you have never used it before, it looks similar this. Yous just create a new notation in the app.

Step 2: Scan Your Drawing

One of the secrets most people don't know about Notes is that you can browse any documents with it. (Thanks, Apple!) I was actually informed by one of my best friends near this. That was a heed-blowing day.

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You click the plus icon at that place and click "scan documents"

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You have a picture of the cartoon you lot desire to digitize, and suit the frame to the range that you want. Then you click "Continue Scan" afterward finishing or employ "Retake" to practise it over again.

And so you click "save"!

Step 3: Suit The Color Filter

If you're scanning a sketch, one of the tips to make your scanned drawing more clear is to suit the colour scale to "Blackness & White". It will heighten your drawing line while keeping the background cleaner.

If you're scanning a colorful drawing, you can only go along the color filter at "Colour". For example, I drew it with a blue-ink pen, and then if I choose "Color", the line is in blue.

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After that, yous merely click "Done" on the top-left corner. And click "Salve" on the next screen.

Step 4: Transfer To Your Computer

One time information technology's saved, yous volition exist redirected back to the original annotation screen. At present you click on the scanned cartoon, then click the "Sharing" button on the top-right corner

If you're using Apple'due south Mac, y'all can AirDrop the digitized drawing into it. And it will send the drawing into your Mac as a PDF file.

If yous're using non-Apple tree laptops or computers, you can send it past using "Electronic mail" or relieve it onto your "Google Drive".

Step 5 (Optional): Convert It To JPG

The digitized drawings will be saved and sent as PDF files. If y'all desire to convert them to JPG, you tin employ Smallpdf, an online converter. That is the one I ordinarily use. It also allows you to straight import the file from your Google Bulldoze. Or yous tin simply cull whatever other online converting tools you want.

And voila! You're done!

At that place are some disadvantages with this method, such as having an unclear background or having shadows while taking the picture. You can edit those out if you're a photoshop user.

However, if you take a clean, un-wrinkled newspaper and find amend lighting, this will exist the easiest and quickest way to practice it.

Hope you find it helpful. I hateful, who will have a gigantic scanner forth with them all the time, right? Simply please let me know if y'all have a better way to practise it! I will then update this post 🙂