Expert: Richard Rost - 10/29/2008

Question
I am a greeting card designer and want to have my designs printed onto cards.The designs are hand collaged from paper, therefore have a slight 3d look. When i scan in the original artwork and open in photoshop -I want to get rid of the black(3d) outlines on the image.I want them to look like they are flat images with no jaggies or outlines when i have them printed?
Kind Regards Rachel Taylor

Answer
How about using the Dodge tool to blend the shadows in to the rest of the image? It might make it look a little blurry, but aside from painstakingly removing ALL of those shadows, that's the easiest solution I can think of.

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