Use Photo Editor for
Uglies and Oops
Use your photo editor to remove dust and certain other uglies which may appear while creating scanner photography.
This shell image is a perfect example of what you may not see until you print it!
See the hair?
I could have avoided this by cleaning the glass first!
Now I have to fix it.
Not sure what to use? You most likely have Paint and Microsoft Office Picture Manager. If you are a beginner, you may find these two easy to use for simple repairs.
Whichever one you select, use it to remove spots, crop your image and make any other changes.
If you know Photoshop at any level, use it.
Photo editors are vital to good scanography.
More Uglies
Some "uglies" can be avoided by simply cleaning your scanner before you scan.
Others you may not notice until you print your hyper-real image!
The colors of vegetables are as exciting to me as flowers.
I am always anxious to print them. When the print of this pepper appeared, I was shocked!
My veggie loving brother Tom, laughingly noticed ---
"What an old pepper, look at the shrivel!"
Ye gods, I should have seen that in the preview!
The 'Pepper Lesson' is -- use fresh vegetables and take a closer look before you print.
Once you've scanned and saved your subject, enlarge your image in the photo editor of your choice. Take a very close look at your images.
Fix the uglies (if you can) before you print!
Sometimes, you won't even want to keep the image.
That's both the beauty and fault of scanography,
you really can see it all!
When you are working with fruit, vegetables, cut flowers and other plant material watch for sap, pollen and moisture marks. They often appear as blurred spots. Hopefully you have used
acetate sheets
to protect the glass.
Oops or Happy Accidents?
Some of my early scanner photography images were just that, happy accidents! The leaf shown here is one of my first Oops! experiences.
I called it Oops because it wasn't created on purpose. Oops are actually posterization. It gives a somewhat watercolor look to your image.
When using the Auto Mode of your scanner, posterization seems to happen randomly. More often than not, it is caused by light reflection (often from your computer screen). Another cause can be the scanner has not warmed up enough.
You can most likely create this same look on purpose with your photo editor!
Don't Get Discouraged!
Scanography professionals often spend hours perfecting their art!
For more help with getting better results, don't miss these important pages on
Scanner Tips
and
Scanner Cleaning.
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