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While where on the topic of line-art: One thing that would be really awesome IMO would be to make faithful reprints of old illustrations. E.g. the picture with
by cpach 7y ago
While where on the topic of line-art:
One thing that would be really awesome IMO would be to make faithful reprints of old illustrations. E.g. the picture with the daemon and the snake (which reminds me of Gustave Doré’s works). Produced with high-quality ink/paper.
Does anyone have any ideas regarding how to do that? E.g. what kind of resolution does the scans need to be, etc.
Would a plotter be able to do it? The fact that the scans are bitmaps might be an obstacle since I imagine that maybe a bitmap can’t be sent directly to the plotter.
- huebomont 7y ago300dpi at whatever physical size you want. Printing at 1 inch x 1 inch? 300px x 300px.
- cpach 7y agoHm. Is 300 dpi sufficient? Sounds a little low to me but I could be wrong. And then I guess one has to ”clean” the scanned image quite a bit in order to get good results. It also would be really cool if one could ”carve” the lines to the paper. Might be possible with a plotter and the right kind of stylus. A while a go I bought an artwork that actually was cut out from an issue of Harpers’ Magazine c:a 1860 or so. One thing that’s really cool about that line art is that the printing technique made the lines embossed to the paper. Beautiful!
- shakna 7y ago300dpi is typical for most things that go from graphic designer to professional printer. It should be sufficient for most things. If you're looking for a way to turn a bitmap into a vector type thing, for a plotter or laser or so on, then potrace or the bitmap->vector converter inside Inkscape should be able to do it. They work well for line art.
- cpach 7y agoGreat, thanks for the advice!