Creating Outline for School Project

[default175m64uatmjx]

I am doing a school project and I need an outline image of a rose. I have got so far with it.
I have a black on white line drawing but the leaves and petals are filled with random black dots.

Anyway to 'clean up' the image besides using eraser brush?

[Chris 486 · Accepted solution]

A quick and dirty way can be to use your magic wand tool with the contiguous option checked,tolerance 32, and select a white space outside of your rose (the background).

Use "control+shift+i" to inverse the selection.

Use Select>Modify>Contract and contract your selection by 3 pixels and hit "OK"

Hit the delete button to delete what's in the selection or use the mask option for a non destructive removal.

That will remove the interior of the rose and you can manually clean up and tidbits left pretty quickly.

Hope that helps!

[Chris 486]

Your history should be about this simple. 

[default175m64uatmjx]

You are the best! It worked, I cannot thank you enough!
So instead I'll ask another question:
Can I smoot the linework? Less jaggies?

[Chris 486]

Glad it was a solution!

And yes, you can get some smoothness worked into the drawing. A really good tutuorial to look at for this is here:

Convert Low-Res Graphic to High-Res in Photoshop - YouTube

That video will show you some different techniques you can apply to your line drawing. play around with the settings and see what works with you. Good luck!