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How to scan artwork larger than scanner - tutorial

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A tutorial I made for a dear friend, explaining how to scan a large artwork. It isn't the best possible way, but it works nicely for me, when needed.

Do forgive me if there's a mistake or few there and also for the size of the file. I hope all is clear enough and understandable. If not, feel free to ask additional questions :)

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EDIT: ~Ludjia reminded me through comments that CS5 has a function for this. This is what she says:

CS5 has a function that automatically does this for you. Go to: file-automate-photomerge. Then it asks for your scanned pieces (I don't use a frame, I just make sure I scanned every part, it does not matter if it has a big overlap, it needs overlap to work.) You don't even usually need to rotate them or anything, it will patch the whole thing back together if it is a good scan. Sometimes it does not work, but scanning again or cleaning up a bit can help it. I find it has a very high success rate.

So for those who have CS5, try that too. For me it doesn't work so well (it fails me when it comes to paintings), but that could be due my scans or due the type of painting. It works pretty amazing with lineworks, though!

Anyway, that's another option. Thank you, Ludjia, for a reminder! :D
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Thanks for the great tutorial. I wish this would work with my scanner, but the inside of the glass has a "whitish film" on the upper right section of it and so it totally messes up doing this. :( I've tried to find ways to clean the glass... but there seems to be no way to take this thing apart. :( I'm about ready to flush it and buy a new one except that I can't because that would take money and well... money is something I don't have since I'm a starving artist! LOL