How to prepare pencil sketches for printing in a book?
I have a selection of pencil sketches that need to be prepared for print in a book (think standard paperback).I'm trying to work the best way to remove dust, bring the background up to white without losing detail, whether I should convert the images to a greyscale format and if there are any other gotchas.There are lots of ways I could approach this, I'm just trying to find a way that will be as sensitive as possible to the very fine detail in the drawings and cause as few problems as possible for publishing. Is there an accepted method for doing this?Any advice gratefully received.
Hey! If you can't pick up the smudges and graphite with a kneaded eraser (to bring out the white background) try editing the image in a photo editor before printing it. If you do find that the smudges come off nicely maybe try going over the spots with a plastic eraser and then sealing it all with a fixative before photographing.
