Object scanning

[raniday]

Cool thread. Here are a couple I played with for another forum. I think I posterized the flowers, and the other one is an animal print hand towel scanned and then embossed along w/ some other filters I can't recall, but I thought it might make an interesting background sometime.

I like the idea of using the scanner for a camera. I just never get around to exploring it further. Here's tutorial type article
http://www.photo-vinc.com/articles/F...edscanner.html

[patriciakay]

Hi Cat..

Nice arrangement of flowers....I also think the other one would make a terrific background...I too would like to do more object scanning,,,but i usually get sidetracked....One Day!!!!!

Patricia

PS...Love your new avatar...great colors!!!!

[palms1]

I had another go with these flowers,as you can see pollen was a problem but thinking i will stop with my camera for now

Palms

[patriciakay]

Love that Palms...

Now i know what colors your fushias are....

Patricia.....

[ogee]

I was surprised by the distortion when I scanned this lamp base...it is made of an aluminium alloy and was made with precision...all the holes are round not elliptical..anyone know if you can correct for this before you scan?

[Cameraken]

Hi Ogee

I would be very surprised if this is caused by the scanner. The lamp base is not lying flat on the scanner. Try rotating the lamp base 90 and see if the distortion changes. Or better still, scan a piece of graph paper and check that for distortion.

Hope this helps

Ken.

[albatrosss]

This is rather sick.

I was looking for something to scan and I found this old dried up carpenter ant that I had on my desk for a month or so. Was going to ID it but never got around to it. Moving it to the scanner caused it to come apart so obviously I had to put it back together before posting.

My daughters tell me that since I'm retired I have simply too much time on my hands. Obviously this is not true.

[palms1]

Albatross Tell your daughters that it has given you a lesoon in biology and photoshop and probably patience ( the more important one as it is needed to deal with ones offspring )

Palms

[Lasa]

Very cool I had read about it but never tried it...so i got the closest thing I had to the scanner..my left hand.
scanned it in hovering over the scanner (not touching the glass)..the only change is that I used the curve to brighten it..the color, clarity everything was there from the get go..
Very interesting.

Lasa

[Lasa]

Again not touching the glass...curve only.
Now this is fun...I'm thinking of throwing my camera away and just running around with my scanner..
Lasa

[palms1]

Originally Posted by Lasa

Again not touching the glass...curve only.
Now this is fun...I'm thinking of throwing my camera away and just running around with my scanner..
Lasa

Problem with that Lasa is you will need a plug socket

must admit though it is fun, will have to give it another whirl soon

Palms

[ogee]

Originally Posted by palms1

Problem with that Lasa is you will need a plug socket

must admit though it is fun, will have to give it another whirl soon

Palms

There must be a wireless, battery operated scanner somewhere in the marketplace...

[Cassidy]

Canon made one that just ran off the usb without separate power

[Sweetlight]

I have done several series of scanned objects over the last 5 years, dried flowers and other stuff. I am always amazed by the fact there is no depth of field at all. One series I did of found objects included a jolly rancher that I printed large enough that the actual candy was about 3 feet long. It held up well, amazing.

[Janet Petty]

Very nice Sweetlight. I like the clarity and the subject matter you chose, not to mention the collage itself.

Janet