Hi friends, in my previous post we learned to paint peony buds. Today we can try to move this painting into a digital element, which can be used in digital scrapbooking, for various projects, in posts, cards and so on.

First of all, I am not very good with all those photoshop tools, that is why this tutorial is so simple and suitable for beginners. So before we open Photoshop we need to take a high quality photo or a scan of our painting. When you open Photoshop you do not need to think about resolution or other stuff. Just open or move your photo/scan into it. (I use CS5)

You will need

The process

🔵 Use "Magic wand" and click on the white background. Everything in white will be highlighted and you can start to rubb it away.

🔵 Magic wand is not perfect. If your painting is too light there can be some parts highlighted too. That is why you have to be careful while rubbing it away. You can choose smaller brush. And be sure to have opacity 100%.

🔵 After removing the background you can use wand again to highlight the picture. If you highlight the background just tap right and choose "Select inverse" . Then tap trl+C, create new layer and tap trl+V.

🔵 Now you can remove or repaint the first layer to black. Be sure you work on the right layer. It should be highlighted in the right corner. We need black to see all imperfections. Wand can make uneven edges, so we should fix them. Also threce can be small white spots around the picture. Make sure to rubb it all away.