Scanning Techniques for Photography Art and Design

MP4 | Video: 540p | Duration: 6:53:03 | English | Subtitles: VTT | 1282.9 MB

Review the scanning techniques graphics professionals and photographers use, while delving into workflow considerations and the advanced image-quality controls available in most scanning software. Author Taz Tally explains the core concepts, such as how resolution and interpolation affect scans; introduces the industry-standard SilverFast scanning software; and shares the settings to achieve the best results from a scan. The course also covers keeping your scanner and its parts clean and free of dust, and includes a variety of start-to-finish scanning tasks.

Topics include:

Understanding grayscale values and channels

Evaluating and correcting images with histograms

Saving to different file formats

Managing color

Cleaning the scanner and images

Reproducing versus assigning colors

Recognizing contone versus dot pattern images

Understanding bit depth

Scanning logos and line art

Scanning transparent film, positive or negative

Capturing high dynamic range (HDR) scans