Quote Originally Posted by Barb T.
Actually, b&w photos are much _easier_ to put into a manuscript than taking the time to draw, scan, and label a line drawing. Particularly if you start with a digital photo. And the publishing isn't any different because it's all done digitally. But Bubba is right, a line drawing is easier to work from than a photo (if the drawing is good, that is!). Too much extraneous detail in a photo - the reader doesn't really know what to look at and focus on.

Barb
Photoshop can turn a photo into a line drawing. It's a relatively simple matter to delete any extraneous detail.

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