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Scanning and Digitizing your Negatives and Slides

Digitize your negatives and slides on the Photo Center’s Epson film scanners: handling film, scan settings, cleaning and color correction for high-quality files.

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Course description

Dive into the world of film and slide digitization in our interactive workshop, tailored for both photography beginners, seasoned professionals, or those with a trove of family photos that need digitization. Utilizing the Photo Center’s Epson flatbed film scanners, participants will master the intricacies of scanning, from handling delicate negatives and slides to perfecting image resolution settings. Emphasis will be placed on color correction, scan settings, film cleaning, and techniques to ensure your digital reproductions are of the highest quality. Throughout the workshop, you’ll receive instruction to fine-tune your scanning process and harness the full potential of the Epson scanning technology. Join us to transform your cherished analog memories into stunning digital formats! Prior experience with macOS and Adobe Photoshop is beneficial. Participants need to bring 35mm or medium format film negatives or slides to scan.

Requirements

Please bring a flash drive or portable hard drive to bring your scans home with you. Photo Center Orientation is not required for this class, but it is required if student wishes to come to the Photo Center outside the workshop to scan film.

Instructor

Molly Rapp she/they

Artist and educator

Molly Rapp (she/they) is an artist and educator whose work spans photography, installation, and time-based media. Her practice focuses on photographic processes, utilizing the darkroom as a site for transformation in which images evolve through material, scale, and duration.

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