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Scenario: because you absently drew it on notebook paper, your clever image is forever marred by horizontal blue lines, so you upload it as-is. The only thing you can do to remove those lines would be to digitally white them out, one by one, right? Wrong, there's a quick easy way to strip the stripes off your picture.

In Photoshop* go to Menu > Image > Adjust > Hue/Saturation. Select blue, and drag the Lightness dial all the way to the right. Now all the blue in the image has turned white, including those lines. Repeat with cyan to remove them completely, maybe green if it still needs it. Do it with magenta and red if the vertical line is in the image too. Done! Your picture now looks like it was never drawn on notebook paper. Wasn't that easy?

You can also go to menu > image > adjust > brightness/contrast and tweak the controls there. This can make it so that the wrinkles in a crumpled paper will vanish, accidental pencil lines disappear, and the remaining grayed-out ruled lines go away completely. It's essential to tweak all your scans with brightness/contrast, even if they weren't on ruled notebook paper, to make them look sharp and clean.

There, all done! Wasn't that easy? You didn't have to white everything out by hand, it's all automatic!

* I'm using Photoshop, but I believe this can be done similarly in other digital art progs, including free programs such as the GIMP, Picasaand the older version of OpenCanvas. Experiment, and tell me the results so I can add that information to this tutorial, which will help more artists.

Note: this only works with black line drawings, with pen or pencil. If you used many colors, this will not work for it.
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wow... never thought of that xD

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holy shit yo....thats awesome! thnx:D
and for the comment XD, your awesome:)

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Wow! Thank you so much for telling me how to do this! I really appreciate it! The only problem is, instead of turning the lines white, it only turned them grey. Whenever I tried to adjust the cyan or the green, it made them seem blue again. Do you know why this is a problem? If so, could you possibly fix it? Thanks again!
You're welcome!

Right, you've got to experiment with it a bit to get it just right: every scan is a little different, so the controls need fine-tuning. Try changing the dials on other colors different amounts. You can also go to menu > image > adjust > brightness/contrast and tweak the controls there; if the ruled lines are gray, but still considerably lighter than the linework you want to keep, raising the brightness and contrast will remove the ruled lines. I should probably include that in the tutorial.
I only have the Paint Shop Pro 9 free trial. It's a little bit too pricy for me to buy right now, but I am saving up. Who knows, maybe for Christmas, or something. Okay, I'll try that. Thank you sooooo much! Your the only person (except maybe my student teacher drama teacher, who was looking over my shoulder) who realizes it's two seperate dogs. *sniff* I'm not really much of an artist. I'm more of a writer. But I do like it, and I do try. thank you again! I'll try that now!
Having a decent digital art program doesn't necessarily mean spending loads of money. There's the GIMP, and OpenCanvas, which are both freeware. Personally, I've been using a Limited Edition of Photoshop all these years, and that's just what comes along cheap in the software package if you buy a Wacom pen-tablet. I looked at a full version of Photoshop on someone else's computer and it was virtually identical. Anything that allows you to save and doesn't constantly nag you to buy should be OK.
Great! Thank you again for your help. I'll try that. Gr. Still can't seem to get rid of those lines, but oh well. I'll think of something. Thanks again!
Thank you! :D

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huh??? it didn't work!!! i did what you said!!! oh well...
oi!! thank you, thank you thank you!!!!! ^..^

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