

The next step is to use your software to clean up the image. When you look at the scanned copy of the drawing, you will likely notice some imperfections-for example, smudges or an off-white background. If you don’t have a scanner, you can simply take a picture of your drawing with a smartphone and email it to yourself. That way, you can always access the original if you need to go back to it at any point. At this point, it’s helpful to create a duplicate copy to work from. Then, open it up in your software of choice, like Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator. Whichever method you use, save the image as the highest possible quality and email or AirDrop it to yourself. Or, if you don’t have a scanner, you can use a smartphone to take a picture of the drawing. You can do this using a traditional scanner, scanning at a minimum of 300 dots per inch (DPI). The first step in learning how to digitize a drawing is to scan it. While you will be able to make small tweaks to the illustration once it’s in digital form, you likely won’t make any major changes-so the sketch should be able to stand on its own. In addition, make sure you’re happy with your drawing as a sketch. For example, it’s best to ink over your sketch to create clear, black lines that will scan easily. Step 1: Sketch for Successīefore you even begin to digitize your sketch, it’s helpful to know a few tips that will make the process easier. There might be some touch-ups.Get started digitizing your drawings with this helpful walk-through from Skillshare teacher Andrea Pippins.

In Inkscape, the tool that is used for vectorizing images is called Trace Bitmap, and the overall operation is called tracing images, or image tracing. In this article we are going to explore how to vectorize (raster) images in Inkscape, also we will be building the vocabulary that is necessary for understanding the tool we are explaining. The digital world has been always displayed to us in a discrete way, in terms of 0’s and 1’s, bytes or pixels so, raster images were so popular (and still) because of their discrete nature, yet when vector images appeared on the stage, they really took the lights, vectors are different from rasters in their underlying mechanisms, where under the hood vectors are mathematical descriptions of paths and objects.
