Lynda.com - Scanning Techniques for Photography, Art, and Design | 1.54 GB
Duration: 6h 53m | Video: AVC (.mov) 960x540 | Audio: AAC 48KHz mono
Genre: eLearning | Language: English | Level: Intermediate

Scanning Techniques for Photography, Art, and Design[/i] is a review of scanning techniques for graphics professionals and photographers, 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. Exercise files are included with the course.

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