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Step 2Edit your artwork and remove the background
If your scanning application hasn't opened up your image automatically, do that now.
If you zoom in you'll notice it looks very crude and pixelated. Don't worry though, it'll disappear as if by magic in the next step.
But before we do that let's remove the white paper background and any obvious mistakes.
Rotate your image if necessary, select the Eraser Tool (press E on your keyboard) and remove any lines or things you don't need.
You don't have to go into the small details at this time so just give it a quick once over and save the image.
Now, since we scanned in Line Art/Bitmap we need to switch the mode to Grayscale, to do that just select Mode->Grayscale in the Image menu.
A dialog box will come up but just leave the setting at 1 and click OK.
Next, open your Layers palette (press F7 on your keyboard if it's not already visible).
You'll see the layer's name has a little padlock next to it so click twice on the layer's name (should be Background) and click OK, leaving the other settings.
Choose Color Range in the Select menu.
Set the Fuzziness to 0, click once in the white "paper" part of the image and press OK.
See second attached screenshot.
You'll see that all the white parts of your image have been selected.
Now hit Backspace or Delete on your keyboard, it'll be removed and replaced by a checkered grid, indicating that it's now transparent.
I recommend creating a new white layer behind your drawing so you can see it better.
If you zoom in you'll notice it looks very crude and pixelated. Don't worry though, it'll disappear as if by magic in the next step.
But before we do that let's remove the white paper background and any obvious mistakes.
Rotate your image if necessary, select the Eraser Tool (press E on your keyboard) and remove any lines or things you don't need.
You don't have to go into the small details at this time so just give it a quick once over and save the image.
Now, since we scanned in Line Art/Bitmap we need to switch the mode to Grayscale, to do that just select Mode->Grayscale in the Image menu.
A dialog box will come up but just leave the setting at 1 and click OK.
Next, open your Layers palette (press F7 on your keyboard if it's not already visible).
You'll see the layer's name has a little padlock next to it so click twice on the layer's name (should be Background) and click OK, leaving the other settings.
Choose Color Range in the Select menu.
Set the Fuzziness to 0, click once in the white "paper" part of the image and press OK.
See second attached screenshot.
You'll see that all the white parts of your image have been selected.
Now hit Backspace or Delete on your keyboard, it'll be removed and replaced by a checkered grid, indicating that it's now transparent.
I recommend creating a new white layer behind your drawing so you can see it better.
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