Everybody who is using their scanner software might have noticed a new filter which is called SRDx. LaserSoft Imaging, the company behind SilverFast has recently released a Photoshop plugin for this task. Of course you cannot expect magic and manual retouching with the afore-mentioned tools is always required especially for larger defects as the filters have a harder time to deal with them. Photoshop has its own "Dust & Scratch" filter which already works nicely. These filters target defects and blend these defects into the surrounding pixels. Among the clone and healing tools in Photoshop we can also work with filters. Canned air and dust blowers as well as small brushes are your best weapon if you want to avoid the elaborate manual retouching process. If you print in the darkroom you have no other choice than cleaning your negatives carefully before putting them into the enlarger. In the end there are always small dust particles on the film which we need to be cloned out during post-processing after scanning. But over the last years or so a new method became more and more popular: camera scanning! Read MoreĮverybody who is developing film at home knows that dust is your worst enemy and while it is surely the best practice to avoid getting dust on your negatives, it seems like a fight that we cannot win. Most labs do a brilliant job and deliver an outstanding quality mainly due to the fact that they own the best machines for this job like the Fuji Frontier SP3000 or a Noritsu HS-1800. Nevertheless a good lab can do this job for you if you manage to clearly communicate ideas and artistic vision. You can make choices that dramatically alter the scan like color and tonal correction. Home scanning with a dedicated film scanner or a flatbed scanners is a big challenge but if mastered correctly it can provide you the artistic freedom over the final image which a lab unfortunately cannot do, simply because they have to guess your interpretation of the negative. But here we are and I have new ideas and topics for upcoming blog posts which I want o share with all of you.įor those of you who follow this blog for a little while now, I have always been a big fan of various ways to scan negatives. What a year! Probably everyone had different plans for the last months and so did I. Meanwhile I have solved most of them and I can say that I managed to wrap my head around the somewhat quirky scanner software. It’s a steep learning curve and it seemed like with every step forward and new problem came up which I had to solve. Even though I really adore this machine and I truly love to work with it, it also drove me to desperation. In this article I will talk a little bit about my love and hate relationship with the Scitex Smart 340. It scans both transparent and reflective media in excellent quality up to a fantastic resolution of more than 5000 pixel per inch. This scanner can do it all and was a workhorse in offices around the globe. When digital was not yet standard, agencies used a reliable scanners to produce print ready files. Super heavy! Most definitely an impressive machine, a marvelous piece of vintage digital equipment and I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of this excellent scanners which were once used in big agencies for all kind of scanning and reproduction tasks.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |