Creating Art with Your Desktop Scanner

Explore the basics of scanning using a desktop scanner for photography, fine art, and beyond. Learn how to bridge analog and digital processes by using a scanner as a camera.

Introduction

• Introduction to scanography
• Getting the most out of this course

1. Getting Started Scanning

• Equipment and extras
• Controlling your scanner
• Finding subject matter for your scans

2. Using Your Scanner to Create Art

• Scanning basics
• Scanning resolution and cropping
• Foregrounds and backdrops for scanner art
• Moving subjects
• Unconventional scanning techniques
• Shooting with film and scanning negatives
• Post-scanning digital enhancements
• Advanced digital treatments of scans
• The nuts and bolts of aesthetics

3. Advanced Compositions with Scanning

• Resourcefulness: Your best tool
• Getting composed
• Building a creature with a scanner
• Creating a collage with a scanner
• Processing film negatives with a scanner
• Finalizing digitized analog photos
• Abstract scanner imagery
• Botanical scans
• Shape-themed animated GIF
• Scanner selfie

4. Sharing Your Work

• Displaying and sharing your work
• Professional uses for scanography
• Where to go from here