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Clean up

Once you have scanned your drawings and imported them into TVPaint, it is possible to:

  • Delete white or gray pixels to imitate the use of a true animation overlay (which is something you’ll have to do in case you want to color your drawing or use a background with it).
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  • Clean up your drawings in order to correct rough pencil lines:
Cleaning rough pencil lines

Here is a closer view of the lines to be cleaned:

Rough pencil lines before clean

And the result after cleaning them up:

Pencil lines after clean

You can use the Scan Cleaner function to accomplish the two aforementioned operations in a few clicks. It is to be found in the Image menu:

Scan Cleaner Menu

As you can see, this tool comes with two different settings:

  • The Scan Cleaner (soft) function will preserve lighter pencil lines.
  • The Scan Cleaner (stronger) function will preserve stronger pencil lines.

You can also use the FX > Color > Scan Cleaner Black and White effect in case the previously mentioned functions don’t give you the results you expect.

Effects will be reviewed in a later part of this user manual.