Explore the basics of scanning using a desktop scanner for photography, fine art, and beyond. Learn how to bridge analog and digital processes by using a scanner as a camera.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Introduction to scanography
- Getting the most out of this course
- Equipment and extras
- Controlling your scanner
- Finding subject matter for your scans
- Scanning basics
- Scanning resolution and cropping
- Foregrounds and backdrops for scanner art
- Moving subjects
- Unconventional scanning techniques
- Shooting with film and scanning negatives
- Post-scanning digital enhancements
- Advanced digital treatments of scans
- The nuts and bolts of aesthetics
- Resourcefulness: Your best tool
- Getting composed
- Building a creature with a scanner
- Creating a collage with a scanner
- Processing film negatives with a scanner
- Finalizing digitized analog photos
- Abstract scanner imagery
- Botanical scans
- Shape-themed animated GIF
- Scanner selfie
- Displaying and sharing your work
- Professional uses for scanography
- Where to go from here
Taught by
Jim Krause
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