Hi, Wanted to find out if my post was helpful to a few?
There are tutorials to show how to do a clipping path. I just cited one example that is easy for the beginner.
Unfortunately, this method leaves hundreds of points on the curve and it is not the best way to limit the size of the file at all.
Go to adobe.com and look up a tutorial using clipping paths.
I felt lonely and that's why I am posting again.
Waiting for a post back?
-Kevin
Please bear with me. I am not a technical writer.
I would need (John, mousoroma) or Grim to help me on this one.
This is a semi-totorial.
I saw a recent request on the Graphics forum from Tony and I was really late to post on. The group did a good job.
However, here is a way from the getgo to concider also:
Select scan from your software, such as Adobe Photoshop to your imaging scanner software.
Select to scan a color image with millions of colors while scanning a printed color image. Usually one and a half times the original. If you have a good photo to scan, select sharp millions of colors.
If using a printed image choose millions of colors
(not sharp.)
Select after the original image set and marquey the image and set zoom. After that, scan the final.
(This is a two-part scan, which is the best way to scan in more detail.)
The image will open in Photoshop.
Select Image/adjust/auto levels. If you are proficient at levels in Photoshop, do command l and adjust the black, white and mid levels.
You can also go to mid-tones and adjust them using the command/m. That adjustment may be left up to the pros as well as color adjustment on your files. Another one to adjust is brightness/contrast: command b.
If your scan had a cast shadow from the scan, such as a piece of artwork, click on the eraser tool and eliminate the cast show on the edge of the paper or from idiots that like to scotch tape every thing down for you.
One of my favorites is to have a customer or dumb-*** sales rep circle the art with a pen that needs to be scanned and indicates: scan this!
Did these idiots really graduate from Phoenix University?
If you are a practitioner of Photoshop and know benzier curves, just do your thing. (Too hard to explain here. Go to Adobe.com and download their tutorials. Just wonderful and free.) Thank goodness for Adobe!!! :

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