Scanning Techniques for Photography Art and Design

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