Scan a line art

I am a new user of Photoshop--I am running CS5 Extended on my Windows 7 Pro. PC.--I created a vector line art in Corel Draw X5 that I want to scan into Photoshop for painting.can I print the line art on white paper,then scan into PS--If so what format(TIFF,JPG,PSD,etc)--will I be able to select parts of the closed areas of the line art to paint after rasterizing it or bitmapping--my goal is to be able to import vector line art from one application to PHOTOSHOP to paint.

Hi, there is a simple way to get your Corel vector artwork into Photoshop. Save your artwork as an EPS and then open the EPS in Photoshop. This will rasterize the vector artwork, so set the resolution at 300. Also, set the color to CMYK (if you use RGB to do your artwork, you may get some strange color shifting if you switch to CMYK later on).
If you need to select areas of the artwork, use the magic wand tool and create a mask. Be advised that the magic wand can sometimes produce fuzzy edges, so I would create a large version of your vector artwork that can be reduced in size when you're finished. This will help to reduce any fuzzy edges. You can also use the expand/contract feature when you make a selection to futher reduce this effect but it takes practice to get the masking right.

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If the white line cannot be seen in Illustrator is the file ok?
Without knowing specifics,nobody knows.
"Okay" for what?
If it looks okay to you in Illustrator, then it's okay for viewing in Illustrator.
If the export of it does not look okay in Photoshop at 1:1 or higher zoom, then it's probably not okay for whatever you're going to do with that raster image.
If it's printed to a low-res composite printer, then it may be okay, because the printer may not be able to resolve the whitish pixels.
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Suppose a portion of your cartoon is a hand-drawn closed circle. The black line work is irregular; it varies in width, having been drawn with a marker or a brush. The circle is colored in with a medium green. There are no sloppy gaps in the original between the green and the black.
You scan it and autotrace it. Unless you apply some deliberate care to make it do otherwise, the autotrace is going to create a compound path, filled with black, and with no stroke; and a green simple path which (hopefully) exactly "kisses" (abuts) the black path. Adobe's on-screen antialiasing of the edge where the two colors abut may or may not cause your monitor to display a faint whitish or grayish sliver between the two colors.
Similarly, Photoshop's rasterization of it, or the rasterization of a raster export filter may do the same, and may actually result in some off-color pixels along the edge. (Your description of the scenario kinda raises the question of why you are auto-tracing something that you're then just going to rasterize in Photoshop anyway. Why do that? Why not just work with the scan in Photoshop?.)
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Joel and Peter --
Thank you for responding to my post. No, I do not scan directly into ID: I scan the object (hand-drawn map or sheet of autographs), then place the object on the destined page, adjusting its size to fit the location I have planned for it. I place it with cmd-D, just as I would with text, but select it from a folder full of all the artwork intended for that issue of the newsletter.
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In the past I had used stock vector illustrations and creatively assembled them with some typography to get a result that was acceptable to me.
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The above image is a line drawing colored with marker and airbrush (physical marker and airbrush, not digital) then is scanned, composed and the text is put in via Illustrator (or Corel).
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But I'm starting to think that for the type of illustration seen above, it's an essential tool.
Where in the world do you get this idea? There is nothing in the artwork you depict that suggests it was done using a stylus. And a stylus is certainly not necessary for it.
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Your curiosity will not be satisfied until you try one. So try one. But they are certainly not required for commercial-quality work.
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Illustrator CS4 on Snow Leopard.
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Just me whinging! I'm really coming from the angle that if this is indeed a display problem, it can only be a display problem if there is something in the file for the display to react to (badly phrased that!).
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