It sounds like you are spending a lot of time preparing your scanned sketch in order to save time by using "live trace" in AI... is this correct? Why not spend less time cleaning up scan and more time just tracing manually? I am a bit old school (just don't use much of the new features unless it really saves me time) and that is way I have always worked.
Actually I don't use live trace and I usually
do just trace manually. I was just wondering if there was a faster way to clean up images
exclusively in photoshop without having to switch programs or having to resort to black magic and voodoo to make things look perfect. Did I mention I was a perfectionist? That might be why everything takes so long with me
Than you for the advice though, I like the idea of tracing it big and shrinking it down.
There's no one "hard and fast" way to do it
I was hoping no one would say that >.<
Are you sure there is no magic "trace button" that will clean up my drawings instantly and make me a cup of coffe while it's at it?