◆ Photoshop · retouch

Clean Up Lineart

Clean the scanned line drawing by adjusting levels to push blacks and whites, apply gentle noise reduction, and place …

2heights
2tasks
1roles do it
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The same job, four heights

do it · improve it · decide · become
AExecute — “help me do it”Clean the scanned line drawing by adjusting levels to push blacks and whites, apply gentle…+
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.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Prepare the line art so the paint pass won't fight it — run a levels adjustment to isolate ink,…+
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.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

1 of them
Clean up a scanned line drawing so the strokes are crisp and ready to paint over.

Who does this

1 roles
Illustrator / Digital Artist

Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Photoshop — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.