Is there an easier way to fill in the lines in a scanned drawing. Easier than just tracing the whole thing with the brush tool. I scanned in my drawing and then used threshold to get rid of the paper background, but the lines are incomplete and pixelated with white. A little help would be greatly appreciated. I'm not a pro and am doing this for a safety eduactors group. Thank you.
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Have you tried tracing?– bentehJan 22, 2016 at 17:57
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I tried tracing with the brush tool but I'm not great at it with my mouse. as think that there was a way to make the lines sharper with some type of blur or other filter, but I'm not educated enough to know which ones to use or how.– CeeLee72Jan 22, 2016 at 18:34
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Is this meant to be printed on offset? Where will this graphic be used, what kind of document?– go-juntaJan 22, 2016 at 23:28
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You can fill-in the holes in the outline by doing:
- Select-by-Color (click on black outline)
- Select > Grow (1px)
- Select > Shrink (1px)
- Bucket-Fill (whole selection) with black
Unfortunately, in this particular case, this will still leave a rather jagged outline because your earlier thresholding to remove the background has also removed all the anti-aliasing. So to produce a smooth outline, convert the selection to a path and back again before bucket-filling, thus:
- (first three steps as above)
- Select > To Path
- (right-click in the Paths dialog) Path to Selection
- create a new layer (white)
- Bucket-Fill (whole selection) with black
