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How to Vectorize Your Hand Lettering

By Dean Rodriguez

Type
Article
Level
Beginner
Price
Free
Published
2016
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About this lesson

Letterer Dean Rodriguez's workflow for turning a scanned hand-lettering sketch into clean digital art: scanning at 300dpi or higher, boosting contrast with Levels in Photoshop, isolating the lettering from the paper with Color Range, and erasing scuffs before handing the file off to be vectorized.