{"id":3250,"date":"2015-01-21T04:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T09:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.filepuma.com\/?p=3250"},"modified":"2024-06-19T01:42:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:42:43","slug":"how-to-clean-up-scanned-drawings-in-gimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/how-to-clean-up-scanned-drawings-in-gimp\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Clean Up Scanned Drawings in GIMP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/download\/gimp_2.8.14-6633\/\"><strong>GIMP<\/strong><\/a> is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. With GIMP, you could clean up extra lines and to sharpen the darker lines in the picture use the \u201cBrightness-Contrast\u201d tool. Here is the instruction to tell you how to clean up scanned drawings in GIMP.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Start GIMP and click \u201cFile&#8212;-Open\u201d to browse your computer for the scanned drawing file.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DmvAS93554bf70878e802898052166.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"642\" height=\"471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2. Open the files. Go to \u201cColors&#8212;-Brightness-Contrast\u201d in the menu to open a new window.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/GYvtE41454bf708bd330b922614510.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"195\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3. Drag the \u201cContrast\u201d slider toward the right-hand side and move the \u201cBrightness\u201d slider to the left to make sketchy or light lines vanish. Click &#8220;OK&#8221; to save the new settings.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/XzAtb47054bf708fd506d765943958.jpg\" alt=\"3\" width=\"386\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<p>4. Use the \u201cEraser\u201d to erase extra lines that you want to erase.<\/p>\n<p>5. Click the \u201cColor Picker Tool\u201d to select the color used to draw the lines in your image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3254\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ABfhG78154bf7094404c0697462643.jpg\" alt=\"4\" width=\"240\" height=\"322\" \/><\/p>\n<p>6. Use the \u201cPencil&#8221; tool to fix any of the linework.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/tgpWc56254bf72da9f7fa169939846.jpg\" alt=\"5\" width=\"439\" height=\"371\" \/><\/p>\n<p>7. Save the changesyou&#8217;ve made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. With GIMP, you could clean up extra lines and to sharpen the darker lines in the picture use the \u201cBrightness-Contrast\u201d tool. Here is the instruction to tell you how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5028,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3250\/revisions\/5028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filepuma.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}