| Colour slides (transparencies) can be scanned to produce files for printing from negatives or for putting images on your web site.
Heres How:
1. You need a film scanner installed and connected to a computer system. Some flat bed scanners have a transparency option that may produce results good enough for the web.
2. Insert the mounted slide your film scanner, or use a strip of unmounted film in the negative carrier.
3. Run you film scanner software. You will often get better results using third-party software such as
4. Start the scanner software. Most software provides a preview.
5. Adjust the scanner resolution to give an appropriate file size in pixels - see 6 and 7 below.
6. For scans for the web, start with around 900x600 pixels, although you will use the image smaller.
7. For scans to print, multiply the print size in inches by 300 to give the size in pixels required - so for a 6x4 print you need 1800x1200 pixels.
8. If you are going to image manipulation software, scan all transparencies to produce (at least) 24 bit images.
9. Your sofware may have settings for differrent films, if so, choose the correct one.
10. Adjust the exposure setting (if there is one) to get rid of any large black areas or areas without detail (you will not be able to scan underexposed transparencies well.)
11. Do not worry too much about contrast, brightness or colour casts when scanning images to be processed later in Photoshop or similar software.
12. Scan the images, saving in TIFF, BMP or PCX but not as JPEG.
13. See the related How tos for what to do with your scan next.
Tips:
- If it supports your scanner you may get better results with specialised scanner software such as Viewscan.
- Vuescan has a multiple scan feature which may produce better results with denser negatives.
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