Article · Anoosha Syed (Substack)
Prepping Traditional Art for Picture Books
By Anoosha Syed
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2024
About this lesson
Published illustrator Anoosha Syed explains how she digitizes layered paper-collage picture book art for print, favoring photography over flatbed scanning to preserve depth and shadow, and combining professional photos, personal camera shots and scanner backups before final Photoshop and Procreate cleanup.
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