I was selected for a project to scan over 1500 negatives at a Library with scanning procedures already in place. Currently I'm at the 1000 mark and overtime have changed the procedure in which the scanning was done in order to produce a better picture.
Now I want to ask myself and the community, which I've often searched for advice, are these techniques I've adapted wrong or is there a better way.
I'm currently using Photoshop 5.5 and ScanMaker III with ScanWizard 32bit.
One procedure was with ScanWizard. I switched to "Positive Transparency" instead of "Negative Film" for capturing negatives, and then invert the image in Photoshop.
With this change, I found scanning is much quicker in acquiring the image, computer is less strained, certain negative media types come into Photoshop ten-fold in quality while others don’t change and working with “Levels” is much easier to do.
The second change I made was how I use the "Levels". I use the Marquee tool to select all the non-damage potions and relevant information of the picture, call-up "Auto-Level", save the configuration, “ESC” “Auto-Level” and then apply the Saved “Level” to the whole picture.
Since I am working to preserve history and also working in volume. I can’t crop out the borders and not shouldn’t fix damaged parts of the image. So when I call up the “Levels” I have all this mis-information. Using the technique described above I is able to create beautiful pictures with minimal thought.
So am I crazy or not schooled properly being better techniques out there.
Thanks
Revere.
Now I want to ask myself and the community, which I've often searched for advice, are these techniques I've adapted wrong or is there a better way.
I'm currently using Photoshop 5.5 and ScanMaker III with ScanWizard 32bit.
One procedure was with ScanWizard. I switched to "Positive Transparency" instead of "Negative Film" for capturing negatives, and then invert the image in Photoshop.
With this change, I found scanning is much quicker in acquiring the image, computer is less strained, certain negative media types come into Photoshop ten-fold in quality while others don’t change and working with “Levels” is much easier to do.
The second change I made was how I use the "Levels". I use the Marquee tool to select all the non-damage potions and relevant information of the picture, call-up "Auto-Level", save the configuration, “ESC” “Auto-Level” and then apply the Saved “Level” to the whole picture.
Since I am working to preserve history and also working in volume. I can’t crop out the borders and not shouldn’t fix damaged parts of the image. So when I call up the “Levels” I have all this mis-information. Using the technique described above I is able to create beautiful pictures with minimal thought.
So am I crazy or not schooled properly being better techniques out there.
Thanks
Revere.
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