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Originally Posted by mental4astro
Hi Peter,
I would not suggest scanning. Scanning will produce too much glare off the page, which is too harsh for the soft details. It is important to be able to control the angle of incidence of light on to the page and then back into the machine that is taking the image.
I control the lighting by taking photographs of my work. This way I can control the way light comes onto the page, control ambient light, and concentrate the camera on the image, the whole page not 100% filled with the illustration.
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Originally Posted by ZeroID
Don't knock the scanning option too much. The illumination strip in scanners\faxes etc is actually offset to one side just to avoid that glare issue. It's more a matter of selecting a suitable resolution that captures the most detail without creating a huge file size.
Photography will obviously do the same or similar job but even there you have to be careful about reflections and lighting as Alex says. If you want to get serious photographically then you'll need a tripod and some oblique soft lighting system.
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I tend to agree with Alex here. I was given a sketch pad with grey textured paper. Sketches look fine to the eye but scanning emphasises the texture, to a point where the sketch is practically useless. However a photograph pretty much captures the eye view of the sketch. Of course the best solution is not to use textured paper!
Cheers -