Re photoshop: I paint in watercol

[spideroo]

Re photoshop:
I paint in watercolours, leaving a lot of white background showing.
I license my work to manufacturers and like to send a nice clean image.

They are scanned at 300 dpi and the scanner is so meticulous that what should be white paper shows the grainy tooth of the paper and every fibre embedded.

As I use a lot of "lost edges" and pale fadeouts, I can't really clean up with magic wand or paint bucket as it grabs my painting and whitens sections of it too. Is there any easier way of cleaning the background other than painstakingly erasing around the edges individually.

I'm self-taught with photoshop and there are a lot of basics that I don't know.

Any tips? Thanks - Spider

 

[Amirag]

Try to Select just the color u want to erase by doing the following:
1- select the specified layer, & from Select Menu choose color range
2- when the dialog box appears drag it away, until u see ur image.
3-move the mouse over ur image will notice that the curser converts to eye droper, click on the points or sections which u want to erase.
4-it will be selected,close the dialog box by pressing OK.
5-then press Del from the keyboard.

hoping it help

Amirag