and here is what I ended up with. The Scans don't do any justice to this, but in the end, what does? Anybody have any equipment tips or program tricks to bring a scan to life? I built a home photo studio, but that really only works for large canvases. Maybe I'll just lug it to IMC and Illuxcon... Thanks for all the help guys!
Grant are you using Photoshop or GIMP after you scan it? If so, try adjusting the "levels" so that the slider bars are where the color signal ends and begins. Kinda hard to explain it without showing it to you.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the addition of the lanterns is a good one.
ReplyDeleteI do all of my adjusting in photoshop adjusting the color saturation and the level balances. The issues tend to arise in the actual "grabbing" of the image. I think this is a problem all artists deal with, but I just would like to try out different techniques.
ReplyDeleteI second Danny's opinion concerning the lanterns -- very nice touch. Plus the decision to have the woman look off to the left instead of straight ahead...I like that.
ReplyDeleteIt looks real good, man. Came out nice.