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Creating Art with Your Desktop Scanner

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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.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Introduction to scanography
  • Getting the most out of this course
1. Getting Started Scanning
  • Equipment and extras
  • Controlling your scanner
  • Finding subject matter for your scans
2. Using Your Scanner to Create Art
  • 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
3. Advanced Compositions with Scanning
  • 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
4. Sharing Your Work
  • Displaying and sharing your work
  • Professional uses for scanography
  • Where to go from here

Taught by

Jim Krause

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