Category: Scanning

Google’s PhotoScan app now automatically removes glare from old photos

Dunja Djudjic

Printing the photos gains popularity even in the digital age, and it undoubtedly has many advantages. Still, if you want to reverse the process and turn an old print into digital format, Google’s PhotoScan now makes it easier than ever. The app now makes it possible to make the photos glare-free without taking multiple images. […]

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Digitizing large format aerial photography film transparencies

Michael Bennett

One of the challenges (and rewards) of managing a digital production lab for a university research library is working with the wide assortment of analog formats that are collected within its archives, special collections, and map library holdings. For instance, we’ve recently begun conversion work on a 2002 aerial survey of Connecticut that was originally […]

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How to “scan” film using your DSLR and process it in Lightroom

John Aldred

For those that shoot film, developing and dealing with chemicals isn’t usually the biggest hassle. Often it’s scanning the resulting film into the computer. Many lower end scanners simply don’t have the quality. Higher end ones, even flatbeds like the Epson Perfection V850 are out of the range of many film shooters. Drum scanners like […]

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Making and framing a fine art print; What photography is all about

John Aldred

I love digital analogue hybrid processes in photography, I find them absolutely fascinating, and this video from photographer Nick Carver helps to show why. There is, of course, another message in this video. If you like your images, print them. Print them big and show them off. I couldn’t agree more. I still shoot both film […]

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Making and framing a fine art print; What photography is all about

John Aldred

I love digital analogue hybrid processes in photography, I find them absolutely fascinating, and this video from photographer Nick Carver helps to show why. There is, of course, another message in this video. If you like your images, print them. Print them big and show them off. I couldn’t agree more. I still shoot both film […]

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Portraying The Passing Months As Sliced Vegetables Scans

Udi Tirosh

As the year cycles, each month has some flora that reaches its peak. It would be interesting to looks at a year as a sum of each month’s ripened fruits and vegetables. And this is  what photographers Caitlin Levin and Henry Hargreaves did. They scanned the ripe fruits of each month an created a kaleidoscopic image out […]

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