Specific Turn an image into clean b&w line art

[teeps]

Hey, I'm looking for some help with turning this excerpt from a comic into clean, black and white line art. If anyone could also share the process they did to achieve this (so I won't have to request again) I'd appreciate it. Cheers

 

[carlbush]

Here is a rough version, you are welcome to clean it up to suit your needs. I simply enhanced the brightness and contrast of the original image, then used the "Magic Wand" tool to select the various colored areas (other than black) and deleted them. The blockiness is due to the relatively low resolution of the original image (72 dpi) and the way the Magic Wand captures the selected areas. The blockiness and pixelated areas can be cleaned up, but will require some effort to make the edges perfectly smooth, if that is your intent. If you can start with a higher-resolution image (300 dpi) it would make the cleaning up process much easier.

 

[teeps]

Here is a rough version, you are welcome to clean it up to suit your needs. I simply enhanced the brightness and contrast of the original image, then used the "Magic Wand" tool to select the various colored areas (other than black) and deleted them. The blockiness is due to the relatively low resolution of the original image (72 dpi) and the way the Magic Wand captures the selected areas. The blockiness and pixelated areas can be cleaned up, but will require some effort to make the edges perfectly smooth, if that is your intent. If you can start with a higher-resolution image (300 dpi) it would make the cleaning up process much easier.


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Thanks a lot for explaining! I'll change the resolution and see if it's any smoother/easier to clean up. I appreciate it : )

 

[carlbush]

In this iteration, I took the B&W image from above, opened it in Adobe Illustrator, and ran it through the Auto Trace function. The resulting image is much cleaner than the image above and could be cleaned up even more with some work in Illustrator. This is a .JPG image at 300 dpi, but I had to reduce the image size because the output file size was too big to upload. Cheers!

 

[teeps]

In this iteration, I took the B&W image from above, opened it in Adobe Illustrator, and ran it through the Auto Trace function. The resulting image is much cleaner than the image above and could be cleaned up even more with some work in Illustrator. This is a .JPG image at 300 dpi, but I had to reduce the image size because the output file size was too big to upload. Cheers!

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This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much! Sorry if I should have known to use Illustrator.