Mmillecamps Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Hi, I'm completely new to this all. I made some children's book illustrations by hand and some were colored by procreate on ipad air. I haven't used photoshop nor illustrator before, I have used Gimp. I have some basic knowledge and I learn pretty quickly. I have been a microsoft user, but I'm about to buy a Mac. My question: I often make drawings with a black marker, I would like to scan these, smooth the lines in a program, make some small adjustments and color them. Maybe add some photos of papercuts later on. Do I need to buy design or photo for this. Been looking on the net and I can't seem to find a decent answer. Only that illustrators use illustrator and photoshop. A lot depends on the way they work of course. I'm willing to buy both but not sure where to start first. And if anyone knows of tutorials that may help me for this subject, I' d be happy to find out. Also I'm not sure if a mouse is easier to use or that magic trackpad for drawing. My guess is the mouse? Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff DWright Posted February 11, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 11, 2016 Hi Mmillecamps, Welcome to the forum. I would use Designer for this as you appear to be mainly working with drawings, open the scanned image and then trace the image to make it a drawing that you can adjust the lines and re-colour also you can insert more photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmillecamps Posted February 11, 2016 Author Share Posted February 11, 2016 Thank you! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmac Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Hello Mmillecamps, I would suggest you buy both Designer and Photo if your budget allows. You will find as you learn more about working with scanned art that there are things you can do in Photo that would be easier and faster than in Designer and things you can do in Designer that are better suited to that program. And you can jump back and forth between the 2 applications so easily while working on the same file. Together they make a very good pair for creating the kind of illustration you describe. crabtrem 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mmillecamps Posted February 12, 2016 Author Share Posted February 12, 2016 Thanks jmac! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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