Post #289005 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Mar 1, 2007 4:13 PM

If I can get some of these more informal shots to come out, you'll like them just as much. I only wish the camera quality for those were better. Any idea how to get the most out of them?

To shoot material with your camera is the quickest, but works with objects and large reproductions best, and not so well with smaller photos. As regular visiting TCers might have noticed lately, I got myself a scanner for X-mas, and had a ball posting stuff from my archives ever since.
Scanners are almost as cheap as DVD players nowadays, and for 170.- bucks I got one that can scan slides and Negatives really well, too. Plus, I never read the manual: Just plugged it in and tried out different buttons, and, (for example) figured out how to crop the different Volcano postcard parts, and then enlarge them by scanning them in higher resolution than the whole, and Voila: We had the zoom in effect.

You can enhance old photos by scanning them, then dragging them into your photo program, and there, try to enhance the focus, saturation, color and contrast, it makes quite a difference. Just go by trial and error, you can't mess up the original.

A scanner will do your material the greatest justice, but if you have no other need for it after, it might be a little luxurious.

[ Edited by: bigbrotiki 2007-03-01 16:50 ]