Turning those outlines into "digital ink"

So we've got these etched outlines. We need to convert them into the …equivalent of digital ink. And here's how that process works. …I'll go ahead and switch back to the image at hand and double-click on Filter …Gallery in order to revisit the Filter Gallery Dialogue box, complete with our …Notepaper settings. What we want to do is get rid of this …Etching effect, and I'll do that by reducing the Relief value to zero. …And then I'll also take the graininess value, which we most definitely don't …want, down to 0 as well. So we're left with just two colors of …pixels, white and this very light grey. If you take it up from 25 to 26, it makes …a total mess of things, and if you take it down to 24, why then you have almost …no detail left. So 25 is what you want.…

Then go ahead and click Okay to accept that effect. …Now if I zoom in, you can see that we've got not only very light outlines, but …very jagged ones as well. To smooth them out, go up to the Filter …menu, choose Blur, and choose Gaussian Blur once again. …