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Final image

Sketchnoting

First impression:

I could have spend a bit more time on writing things out c-l-e-a-r-l-y.

The final result isn’t necessarily bad, but I have created more interesting designs. The heavy dependency on text doesn’t help either.

Lesson learned:

• Take your time and;
• Add interesting typefaces.

Post-processing

The following steps were used:

• Straighten & Crop the scanned image. In this case the scans were a bit too close to the edge of the sketchbook;
• Apply Unsharpen Mask (radius: 5.0, amount: 0.50, threshold: 0);
• Apply Threshold (148 - 255);
• Clean up the resulting image with the Pencil tool;
• Apply a Gaussian Blur (3.0 x 3.0)
• Add grey and colour accents on a new layer.

The olive colour doesn’t really “pop”. Next time I will probably use something a bit brighter.

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