Your scanner should come with a driver that saves files (preferably 16-bits-per-channel TIFFs). Those files should be imported into your file management and editing software.

Alternatively, you can copy all your drawings with a digital camera and a macro lens, using a copy stand with appropriate, color-correct LED lighting. In that case, working in raw mode will give you a file from which you can make very accurate reproductions.

I use and recommend Adobe Lightroom Classic as the hub of my digital workflow. It has the following functions:

The LIBRARY module imports LINKS to your files. Put your files in folders where you want them to STAY. Then run the Import routine. Each file will get a record in a database that stores everything you will subsequently "do" with it. The original IS NOT CHANGED. You work on a proxy copy, and every change you make is stored in the database (catalog, Adobe calls it). Additionally, you can have Lightroom save a sidecar file of those instructions.

LIBRARY also gives you advanced metadata features and lets you assign keywords to files, so you can sort them, rate, them, find them later...

The DEVELOP module is a parametric editor. It works best with raw files from digital cameras, but you can edit TIFFs and JPEGs and other popular formats as well (although not quite as flexibly). You can alter exposure, black level, shadows, highlights, white levels, contrast, saturation, color temperature, sharpness, noise, and many, many more parameters. You can also do simple spotting and masking, cropping to freeform or preset aspect ratios, red-eye reduction, and work with curves. It makes black-and-white conversions and does color grading. There are numerous tools for working with detail. You can even add "grain" if you like that.

DEVELOP works in a wide gamut color space that preserves all the detail, dynamic range, and color captured by your camera. It allows "soft proofing" in the color space you intend to use for output (to disk, web, printer, or other application). To reap the benefits of this, you should work on a properly calibrated and profiled monitor made for graphic arts and photography (NOT gaming or office use).

DEVELOP also has an Export function that is rather full featured. There are endless ways you can "process your edited files to disk," essentially getting output from Lightroom without changing the original files. You can re-name, send files to specific destinations, serially number, strip metadata, use specific file types and output profiles, re-size several different ways, apply watermarks and copyright information, and more!

MAP lets you turn stored geo-coordinates applied by your camera into locations on a map.

BOOK lets you lay out a photo book that you can have a third party lab produce for you.

SLIDESHOW displays a set of images you select for a simple presentation to clients. It is most often used for clients to pick images they want you to finish or print.

PRINT is a full featured print layout and printer controlling program you can use with your locally-connected printer and its printer driver. But you can also create files for lab printing. It also allows soft proofing, so you can get a final check of profile effects on the output before committing it to paper.

WEB lets you upload your finished images to Adobe Cloud for storage and sharing.

Best of all, Lightroom Classic comes with the full version of Adobe Photoshop, a full-featured bitmap editor with advanced features that have been developed since the late 1980s. It also comes with another version of Lightroom that is web-enabled, so you can bounce images from your computer to your phone or tablet. Finally, it comes with Adobe Bridge, a more conventional file management and viewing tool that includes Adobe Raw, the same file conversion tool that is part of Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop.

This entire package is ten bucks a month, or twenty with more online storage space in the Adobe Cloud. It provides an amazing amount of power for very little money.

A lot of folks don't understand subscription software, but those of us who've used Adobe software since the 1980s know that it is worth it for what we do. The fact is, no one has ever "bought" such software. We LICENSE it under specific conditions outlined in the EULA (end user license agreement) that you agree to with a checkbox in the installer program (if you don't agree, you can't install the software!)

The old software sales model gave you a box with a disk and a manual for a one-time fee. When the next major version came out, you had to shell out $100 to $500 for the upgrade, or stick with the old version. The subscription keeps you up to date with the latest version that will run on your hardware and operating system.

Nothing about computers is "forever." Operating system upgrades can render your hardware obsolete. Software upgrades might not install and run on your old system or computer. So expect periodic change...

Your scanner should come with a driver that saves files (preferably 16-bits-per-channel TIFFs). Those files should be imported into your file management and editing software.

Alternatively, you can copy all your drawings with a digital camera and a macro lens, using a copy stand with appropriate, color-correct LED lighting. In that case, working in raw mode will give you a file from which you can make very accurate reproductions.

I use and recommend Adobe Lightroom Classic as the hub of my digital workflow. It has the following functions:

The LIBRARY module imports LINKS to your files. Put your files in folders where you want them to STAY. Then run the Import routine. Each file will get a record in a database that stores everything you will subsequently "do" with it. The original IS NOT CHANGED. You work on a proxy copy, and every change you make is stored in the database (catalog, Adobe calls it). Additionally, you can have Lightroom save a sidecar file of those instructions.

LIBRARY also gives you advanced metadata features and lets you assign keywords to files, so you can sort them, rate, them, find them later...

The DEVELOP module is a parametric editor. It works best with raw files from digital cameras, but you can edit TIFFs and JPEGs and other popular formats as well (although not quite as flexibly). You can alter exposure, black level, shadows, highlights, white levels, contrast, saturation, color temperature, sharpness, noise, and many, many more parameters. You can also do simple spotting and masking, cropping to freeform or preset aspect ratios, red-eye reduction, and work with curves. It makes black-and-white conversions and does color grading. There are numerous tools for working with detail. You can even add "grain" if you like that.

DEVELOP works in a wide gamut color space that preserves all the detail, dynamic range, and color captured by your camera. It allows "soft proofing" in the color space you intend to use for output (to disk, web, printer, or other application). To reap the benefits of this, you should work on a properly calibrated and profiled monitor made for graphic arts and photography (NOT gaming or office use).

DEVELOP also has an Export function that is rather full featured. There are endless ways you can "process your edited files to disk," essentially getting output from Lightroom without changing the original files. You can re-name, send files to specific destinations, serially number, strip metadata, use specific file types and output profiles, re-size several different ways, apply watermarks and copyright information, and more!

MAP lets you turn stored geo-coordinates applied by your camera into locations on a map.

BOOK lets you lay out a photo book that you can have a third party lab produce for you.

SLIDESHOW displays a set of images you select for a simple presentation to clients. It is most often used for clients to pick images they want you to finish or print.

PRINT is a full featured print layout and printer controlling program you can use with your locally-connected printer and its printer driver. But you can also create files for lab printing. It also allows soft proofing, so you can get a final check of profile effects on the output before committing it to paper.

WEB lets you upload your finished images to Adobe Cloud for storage and sharing.

Best of all, Lightroom Classic comes with the full version of Adobe Photoshop, a full-featured bitmap editor with advanced features that have been developed since the late 1980s. It also comes with another version of Lightroom that is web-enabled, so you can bounce images from your computer to your phone or tablet. Finally, it comes with Adobe Bridge, a more conventional file management and viewing tool that includes Adobe Raw, the same file conversion tool that is part of Lightroom, Lightroom Classic, and Photoshop.

This entire package is ten bucks a month, or twenty with more online storage space in the Adobe Cloud. It provides an amazing amount of power for very little money.

A lot of folks don't understand subscription software, but those of us who've used Adobe software since the 1980s know that it is worth it for what we do. The fact is, no one has ever "bought" such sofytware. We LICENSE it under specific conditions outlined in the EULA (end user license agreement) that you agree to with a checkbox in the installer program (if you don't agree, you can't install the software!)

The old software sales model gave you a box with a disk and a manual for a one-time fee. When the next major version came out, you had to shell out $100 to $500 for the upgrade, or stick with the old version. The subscription keeps you up to date with the latest version that will run on your hardware and operating system.

Nothing about computers is "forever." Operating system upgrades can render your hardware obsolete. Software upgrades might not install and run on hank you!your old system or computer. So expect periodic change...