When one of my drawing students or I finish a drawing, we often like to get it reproduced as prints, notecards, for a business card or a brochure, in a portfolio of work. . . so many potential uses!
Back in the olden days, pencil was very difficult to reproduce either on a copy machine or a printing press. Now we have computers, which everyone knows can solve all the world’s problems.
Fall down laughing.
Now, with a scanner and Photoshop Elements (AKA Photoshop Jr.), I am able to prepare pencil drawings for reproduction. (This is a service I provide free of charge for my drawing students but I do charge customers because it can be a somewhat lengthy process.)
BEFORE
AFTER
Prolly time to buy a new scanner because mine is adding colors that do not belong. Ugh, shopping for tech products: the scanner quit working when I updated my laptop in 2017 (to a 2015 model), so I have to keep my old laptop in order to use it. The pieces and products and devices continue to multiply.
P.S. THANK YOU, LOU, FOR ALLOWING ME TO SHOW OFF YOUR FANTASTIC PENCIL DRAWING OF MORO ROCK IN SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK!
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That’s a nice service to offer your students. It’s amazing how a little Photoshop touch up and make a drawing look more like it does in real life. I’ve used Photoshop Elements, and it IS work! It’s good that you charge other people for the service because it really is a skill. Beautiful drawing by Lou!
Michelle, thank you for your compliment to Lou! She is very very good at many things, and it is a pleasure and privilege to help her.
If Photoshop Elements is this difficult, I shudder to think how the big Photoshop is. That continual upgrading just appalls me. . . and there are so many tiny things that either don’t show, or get moved. For example, figuring out that the caps lock is on and messes with the eraser took a half hour out of productive time (several years ago, but it scarred me.)
Just yesterday I watched a Twilight Zone episode where an “efficiency expert” replaced most of the factory and office staff with computers. The computers became so efficient themselves, that, well, you can guess the outcome!
Sharon, didn’t the computers get outdated and need to be upgraded??
You mean during the episode? I just remember the “efficiency expert” trying to control/turn off the computer unsuccessfully and he going a little crazy.
Here is a synopsis:
“Whipple revels in the increased output and profits at first, but the story delivers classic Twilight Zone irony and comeuppance as the machines’ cold logic eventually turns against him in a haunting, psychological way—culminating in his own obsolescence.”
Sounds a bit like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.