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Final image

Sketchnoting

It’s easy to see what happened: I went over 2 pages. Maybe I should get myself an A4 hardback notebook for future experiments. Nevertheless, I like the final result. It’s visually interesting and if you compare it to the first few attempts, there’s a world of difference.

Lessons learned:

• Call-outs are a quick and easy way to add interest to an item;
• The number of illustrations are a bit low. Creating a visual library would probably improve the response time between an idea and the final image.

Post-processing

Post processing is starting to become a second nature:

• Crop & straighten the scanned image;
• Apply an Unsharpen mask (radius: 50, amount: 0.5);
• Apply a Threshold;
• Clean up the image;
• Apply a Gaussian blur (3x3);
• Add grey and colour accents.

When it’s scaled down for the web the 3x3 Gaussian blur isn’t that obvious. However, these days I feel it’s a bit too much and the final result is a bit too blurry at 100%.

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