Scanning

1. When you first scan you place the object you wish to scan on the scanner and close the lid. Then you open up photoshop and go to File (on the toolbar) and click Import then click Scanner. Then the Scanner will open up and you go to New Scan and properties will drop down from an arrow and you can adjust the amount of colors you want in the photo and the number of dpi you want. Then you hit New Scan and the photo will scan in. Then if you like the photo that scanned in, you will hit Accept. First you save the image as a .psd (photoshop image) and then you save it as a .jpeg image.

2. The descreen button takes away the wavy look that appears on your image when you scan it in. The wavy affect usually happens because the other side of the object is showing through. For example, the other side of the magazine page you are scanning. the descreen process consists of two different operations, screen removing and reducing a halftone miore pattern.

3. Dpi means dots per inch, which is pixels per inch in the photo, therefore if an image has lower resolution it will make it look grainy and a higher resolution will make the it look clear/sharp. Starting from left to right the first image is at a 360 dpi, 200 dpi and 72 dpi. You can notice the sharpness of the photo increase as the dpi increases.




4. These are my DDS's they were scanned in at 200dpi using a million colors or RGM. I think I should have scanned them in at different Dpi because the backround is blue from the white paper. I am not sure but I dont like how they turned out.