If you're into photography but don't have a great camera, or maybe if
you just fancy something different, then scanography is a great
technique to try. Scanner art, or scanography, is a fun and ethereal method of creating photograph-like art with your scanner.
1. Set Up Your Scanner
Open the scanner’s properties (usually in devices and printers) Set the dpi in your scanner settingsMake sure the resolution, or dots-per-inch (dpi), is set to the highest it can
go. In the case of this example, 600 dpi. Be aware that some scanners, like mine, will reset
the dpi after every scan so you may need to do this each time. Your colour
format may be able to change and have weird and wonderful options. Feel free to
experiment with those, but as my scanner is basic and boring I’ll demonstrate
using the ‘colour’ option.
2. Set Up Your Image
If you want a different background to your picture than the
plain scanner one, you can stick your own on with Blu Tack. Stick on your background with Blu Tack or eequivalentNext,
add the items you want to include in your image. Remember that the
image is being taken from below, so place things upside down. I’ve used
buttons as an example here: Set up the items you want to scanYou can try anything from old books, coins (see
below) or whatever you have lying around the house. This is what the
buttons produced when scanned: This is what the button set up World coins on a map background works quite nicely too: World coins on a map of the worldIt’s interesting that despite the lack of depth of
field using this method, you can get some semblance of it by adding a
background, because your scanner will focus on the item on its plate and not on
the picture you’ve stuck to the top.
3. Get Arty
You
don’t just have to position items on the scanner, why not try yourself…
and no, I don’t mean sitting on the photo-copier at the Christmas
party! Self-portraits can become ethereal and have an almost, underwater
quality to them: A portrait using scanography [photo: Belinda Kiernan: http://bibz-says-rawr.deviantart.com/]If
you can draw (I can't!), try cutting out scenes and laying them on the
scanner for some great silhouette effects. You don't have to have the
lid down either, dragging something along the plate as it scans can give
some really eerie blurring effects! Movement during the scan can create eerie effects [photo: Emily Nagy: http://shewalksinsilence.deviantart.com/]
Conclusion
You might not have even realised you have a scanner,
but many home printers include scanners now too. This method allows you to
be creative, it's fun and can get some great results!
TDasany
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