Taught by Charles Bush, Helen Longest-Saccone and Marty Saccone.

Bring your 35mm slides and learn about scanning your images on the computer with Helen, Marty and Charlie. Helen does all the CMYK scans for Nature Photographer magazine, plus she and Marty scan their slides in RGB for their freelance photography business. Charlie has a great deal of technical knowledge and is artistic as well. He scans his images in RGB for reproduction as photographic art and does CMYK scans, as well. As professionals Charlie, Helen and Marty all make brochures, business cards, letterheads, and other promotional pieces on a regular basis and regularly are scanning their images and working with Photoshop. Additionally, they keep abreast of the ever-changing digital world by reading, studying and attending seminars to increase their knowledge.

During these hands-on sessions you will learn how to scan using your own 35mm slides. Scans can be done in both RGB and CMYK; come and learn the critical differences involved in doing these two types of scans. Learn the value of using RGB scans for your own printed pieces and how to do the CMYK scans used by the publishing industry. Learn terminology and when to save files in TIFF format and when to save files in JPEG format.

Bring your slides and learn how to use the digital capabilities of the computer to best duplicate the images you created through the lens of your camera. Learn how you can achieve better color in your scans and how to produce better reproductions of your slides. Helen, Marty and Charlie’s goal when using the computer for color separations is to reproduce as close as possible what has been captured on film. This is not a digital manipulation seminar. However, you could learn how to salvage images from exposure errors.

In addition to learning how to make photo quality prints on a desktop printer during this workshop, there will also be opportunities for you to learn about producing notecards, brochures, promotional pieces, letterhead and photo business cards, as well as business cards without images.

Learn about archiving your work on a CD and on a ZIP disk. Receive valuable information about which types of papers reproduce your images best.

Bring a selection of 35mm slides and leave with beautiful glossy prints and other work you may accomplish during the workshop all with your images on them. Additionally, you will take your work home burned on a CD.

If you would like to also bring your laptop computer, you are welcome to do so.

You will have an opportunity to scan using the Nikon LS 4000, Nikon LS 2000 and Polaroid Sprintscan 4000 all loaded with SilverFast software. Additionally, we use digital cameras; Charlie has the Nikon D1 and the Nikon D1X. If you would like to receive more information about how to make high quality images when using digital cameras, we can help in that area as well.

Familiarity with computers is helpful, but experience with scanning and/or Photoshop is not necessary. All levels of photographers working with their computers will benefit and learn during these small sessions. Each session is limited to only three photographers. The workshops begin at 7:00 p.m. on Friday evening and run until 9:30 that night. Then we will meet again at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday and run until 7:00 p.m. that evening with an hour break for lunch (lunch brought in and included in seminar cost). Then we will meet again on Sunday morning at 7:30 a.m. and work until Noon. This will be a total of 16-1/2 hours of instruction. This is a hands-on workshop with three instructors and three participants.

Sue and David Buist