This is a forum to talk about tips and tricks to uploading your drawings.

Here are some of my tips!

I use a camera and take photos of all my drawings. I used to use a flat bed scanner, but I would run into mysterious lines that would appear over my picture. No matter what I did with the resolution or the adjustment, I would continue to get these lines. My camera proved to be the solution.

When I take a picture with my camera, I take it with a flash or without a flash to see which provides the best resolution. I also take the picture with a tripod to avoid movement of the camera especially without the flash. Tripod is very helpful!

My camera saves pictures at 10 mega pixels, this is way too big for Drawspace, so I typically reduce the size and save it in jpg format. Drawspace limits the size to 1 meg pixels.

An easy way if one doesn't want to reduce the size through a picture editor is to send it to yourself through email via gmail. I have two email accounts one yahoo email account and one gmail account. By uploading it to yahoo and then sending it to my gmail account it's automatically reduced to the right size for drawspace. Then I download to a file naming it a unique name so I don't confused with which file is which then upload the reduced size to drawspace.

Another issue I see is that some of the drawings can be to light after uploading. A lot of detail is washed out. Of course there are drawings that are so light that no matter what one does, the drawing still will not be visible. What I've done is played with it in picture editor to brighten up with the contrast and bright selection. This usually cleans it up. Some editors have a wizard that all you have to do is run it and that usually cleans it up.

Since this is an open discussion, I welcome any other pointers as well. I may think of somemore items that I find helpful and will add to this thread.

Gimp is free! I used to use this program. I use Coral Photo since it has some additional features that I needed for other work that I'm doing. Gimp however is great for cleaning up and editing your photo.

Link for free download photo editor
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/

I will post samples also with some corrections.

Regards,



Gilbert