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Clean up a scanned line drawing so the strokes are crisp and ready to paint over.
2 ready prompts
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Execute — do the immediate task
+Clean the scanned line drawing by adjusting levels to push blacks and whites, apply gentle noise…
Execute — do the immediate task
+Clean the scanned line drawing by adjusting levels to push blacks and whites, apply gentle noise reduction, and place the cleaned lines on a new transparent layer ready to paint over.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Prepare the line art so the paint pass won't fight it — run a levels adjustment to isolate ink, use…
Improve — make it easier to accept
+Prepare the line art so the paint pass won't fight it — run a levels adjustment to isolate ink, use selective noise reduction that preserves edge detail, desaturate stray color casts, and export a crisp PNG of the line layer plus a layered PSD with 'cleaned-lines' named for the painter.
Pasted it? When the reply comes back, push once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part. — Did this prompt help?
Who does this, and with what
The same task is different work inside a different job.
Illustrator / Digital ArtistAdobe PhotoshopAdobe Lightroomalso: Sharpen Scanned Strokesalso: Prepare Lines For Painting
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Every task here came from the work, not from a feature list — which is why the prompts name what you want done and never the button that does it. The tool changes; the work does not.
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