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03/22/2005 06:18:34 AM · #1 |
Hi all. I am transferring my brother's art pictures into digital form for a new website. Does anyone have any tips on how I should go about this. How should I light the subjects. They are all pencil drawings and some of the white paper is not white anymore. Should I set the WB to make them white again or should I keep the old worn out look.
Should I give up before I start and try and scan them at my local printers?
Thanks too all. |
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03/22/2005 06:21:23 AM · #2 |
What does your brother say? They're his art and he should be the one answering those questions.
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03/22/2005 06:24:48 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by di53:
What does your brother say? They're his art and he should be the one answering those questions. |
He wants them as crisp and clean as possible but wants too keep the original artwork feel so he's not much help, lol. |
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03/22/2005 06:25:05 AM · #4 |
I don't have much expertise in this, my guess is a scanner will yield the best results.
One tip for next time though: If you give your posts a meaningful subject line, they will be more likely to attract the attention of people who can answer your question. "Help required !!!" doesn't tell the potential reader anything, except maybe that you're demanding.
If you want me to change the subject I'll be happy to do so for you... just let me know what you want it to be.
-Terry
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03/22/2005 06:37:11 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
I don't have much expertise in this, my guess is a scanner will yield the best results.
One tip for next time though: If you give your posts a meaningful subject line, they will be more likely to attract the attention of people who can answer your question. "Help required !!!" doesn't tell the potential reader anything, except maybe that you're demanding.
If you want me to change the subject I'll be happy to do so for you... just let me know what you want it to be.
-Terry |
Thanks for that. "Help! How to capture old artwork." would be better I think.
I think I probably will scan them but would much preffer to use my camera.
Thanks again |
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03/22/2005 06:41:24 AM · #6 |
My guess is that you will have more controlled and consistent results with scanning, but if you want to use your camera, you will need to use flat, even lighting. For the yellowed pages, you could either set a custom white-balance off a blank area of the page, or simply desaturate the photo (since they are pencil-sketches and therefore monochrome anyway).
Good luck!
-Terry
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03/22/2005 07:35:12 AM · #7 |
When done professionally, this is done by photography, rather than scanning - scanners that you can fit most pictures in are pretty few and far between, the intense light is very bad for papers and media, and the weight of the lid is just a daft idea.
Find somewhere with good, clean, even, INDIRECT daylight. Set your WB carefully. Make sure your camera is a right-angles to the centre of the picture, and I would recommend a focal length of around 70mm, to avoid any kind of distortion. I've done this stuff before, and really it's pretty easy if you're just careful. RAW will of course give you more detail and processing options, including proper WB adjustment.
Whatever else you do, make sure the light is indirect.
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03/22/2005 10:23:47 AM · #8 |
Look up useing a copy stand - you can get one or make do with what you have -
WB the camera to the lighting you are using - you don't want some bizarre color change to occur to the artwork.
make sure the film plane(back of camera) and artwork are absolutely parallel.
lighting - flash or hot lights are fine, unless the arwork might melt opr burn. Set teh lights at 45 degrees to the artwork to light evenly and minimize reflections/hot spots.
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