Tired of all those negatives and prints making clutter all over your workspace? Edit and organize by turning them into digital materials. Get rid of all
clutter and scan those pictures. Once digitized, you can easily make adjustments by exporting them into Photoshop and create more contrast, color and clarity.Scanner technology has come a long way to digitizing photos and negatives. They come in all shapes and sizes, and price range. Here's a basic course on science of scanning:
When shopping for scanners… When shopping for scanners, two things to keep in mind are features and, of course, price. There's a cornucopia of review sites on scanners that will definitely help you with your choice. In a review, scanners are usually sorted from A to Z, and rated according to features and price. They also indicate where you can avail of equipment being rated.
If you have a PC, you might want to choose from a huge selection provided by product announcements, news and articles in internet. PC Buyer's Guide is one site that offers a wide range of information and sources for flatbed scanners. On other hand, if you're a Mac fanatic, there are plenty of choices too, that support your favorite computer.
The choice of scanner all depends on you and your needs. It may be an antique in typical tech industry. But if it makes good reproductions, and is easy to set up and use, then I believe you found scanner that's right for you.
The jargon of scanning… When looking and comparing features, you might notice that there's an abundance of scanning terms and words. There's a lot of jargon to absorb. Don't be alarmed. The language is easy to learn. You just have to be familiar with most of them and you're on your way to understanding scanner better.
In world of scanners, you just need to be familiar with two measurements: bit or color depth, and resolution. Both have to do with reproduction of colors and grayscale images. However, they refer to different aspects of process.
Bit depth refers to number of bits of image data scanner will use for each pixel. One designer proposes a scanner with 24 bit depth to create "true color". This kind of scanner yields 16.7 million colors. To scanner techies, that means 256 x 256 x 256 red, green and blue dot combinations. These days, almost all scanners available have at least 24-bit capability.
