Scanning Techniques for Photography, Art, and Design

Scanning techniques for graphics professionals and photographers, covering workflow considerations and advanced image-quality controls.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