[Jeff Cochran]

Try using a Gaussian blur on each individual channel (Red, Green and Blue). Use only the amount necessary to remove the grain from each color, then apply an Un-Sharp mask to the image to sharpen up again.

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[Jeff Cochran]

Copy your scanned image to a new channel. Channel window under the windows pull down menu. Hold down the command key and click on the channel. This will make a selection out of the image. Whatever is white is selected 100%, Black at 0% and levels of gray are made into a selection based upon the level of Gray. (10% gray, 10% opacity selected).

Now you can select a new layer and fill it with any color you like, or a gradient, or use it as a mask for another image.

Remember that white is selected at 100%, so if you’ve scanned your line art, you may need to invert the image. (Command I)

Good luck

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[Jeff Cochran]

Change the Pixel Aspect Ratio of your composition to Square Pixels. You can do this under composition settings.

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[Jeff Cochran]

The best way I know to acheive this is to make a selection out of the item you want to duplicate, (command click on the layer) hold down the command and option key and drag the art. This will make a copy of the art on the same layer. The new art will remain in the selection and you can repeat the process until you have all the copies you want

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[Jeff Cochran]

I don’t know why, but here’s a couple of things to try.

1. Create a new, blank layer, link the other two layers to it, (This one has the eye ball, the other two are just linked) then try to merge linked.

2. Hide all the other layers, and save a copy of the file as a tif or pict file, open that file, copy and paste in place of the other two layers.

In dealing with layer modes, No 2 will probably be your best bet.

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[Jeff Cochran]

You could try saving the file as a Photoshop DCS 2.0 file, This will create four different files. One for each color.

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[Jeff Cochran]

There is,

Make your selection. Under the window pull down menu, bring up the paths palette. Go to the pull down menu to the right of the palette and go to Make Work Path. Select a tolerance value (the smaller the value, the more points on the path) and hit OK. You have a path.

If your going to use this path for print as a clipping path or in Illustrator, I’d suggest a tolerance no smaller than 1.5. Anything smaller will usually give an imagesetter problems.

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[Jeff Cochran]

Try this

Duplicate the layer, select the lips and eyes as you like. Make sure it is a selection (Marching ants) and click on the mask button at the bottom of the layer pallete. You can soften the edges around the selection by using the blur filter on the mask. (best hide the original layer while doing this so you see what your doing).

Go back to the original layer and use the Hue/Saturation tool to lighten and increase the saturation of the image, You might also blur it slightly

See if that is the effect your looking for.

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[Jeff Cochran]

One way is use a layer mask, use the paint brush tool to paint around soft area like hair. Use the pen tool around other areas, make a selection and fill it.

Another way is try using one of the images existing color channels. I often will find one with good contrast between the persons hair and the background. Use the curves or levels tool to increase the contrast and paint brush tool or eraser tool to clean up the rest of the image and then use it as a selection to create a layer mask.

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[Jeff Cochran]

Click on the fill color icon in the tool box.

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