Fig. 33 After successfully completing the procedure, both layers have been reduced to one. And then the actual work begins. Armed with the clone stamp I start removing impurities caused by dirt on the scanner, dust etc. As you can see here, I select the clone stamp tool and select 50 % opacity/size 20 pixels in the settings. With the levels I light up the picture and correct the colors a little. Finally, I may remove the white border on the left and the dark edge on the right with the crop tool (see Fig. 33, too).
Now that the artwork is digitalized, one might play around with it a little and try out things. But that i s entirely up to you. After saving the file as a .psd and – for security reasons – as a .tiff, nothing can go wrong any more. I burn it on CD-ROM for archiving purposes and I still have an original to sell, as a reference, for prnting or just for my own wall. I hope this workshop has been interesting for Photoshop beginners as well as experienced users. Let us wait and see what comes next, maybe a sculpture that finds i t s way into the computer and back? Who knows?
