337 Cleaning up a sketch captured with a phone

…In this movie, I'll show you how to clean…up a bad photograph of a sketch so that you…can take it into an illustrator as we did in…a previous movie and trace it using the pen tool.…And so basically, a smartphone is a great device for capturing something like…this even though the image quality is just abysmal, as you're about to see.…But, it does allow you to quickly and easily capture that sketch.…And then we're going to take and then turn it into this here.…Even though we still have the notebook lines running…through the hand, I'm not concerned about that at all.…

I just need to be able to see these…very dark black edges against a very white background.…And it's a little tough to pull off for…reasons that are going to become apparent right away here.…The first thing we want to do is increase the contrast of course.…So I'll drop down to the black and white circle at the bottom of…the Layers panel, and I'll choose Levels in order to bring up the Properties panel.…I'm going to take this first black point value up to…