>Britt, Rosemary and Clara, thanks for your interest. > >Actually, I am scanning a lot of line drawings for a book, some are mine, >some aren't. Some were drawn on Bristol paper, some on acetate or a kind >of paper like the one architects use (I don't know the english name for it, >but it's tricky to scan it), some are photocopies... Some of them have very >thin, weak lines and/or stipples, that get easily lost during the scanning >process, especially if the paper doesn't make a good contrast . I've been >experimenting and I think the results are better now, but I still want to >learn about the way to treat such difficult originals right from the >scanning process. I use a Sharp JX-330 scanner and I'm looking for its web >site. I will also try to get the book. >Silvia. > Sylvia: The important thing is to scan as grayscale not line and do the conversion in PhotoShop. You can always Revert to Saved or Undo. The book describes a process for conversion from grayscale to line that works very well, it is fast. I have seen that process described in this space as well, but not very recently. How is it we access our archives?? -Clara