Lynda - 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