WORKSHOP: Film Scanning Basics

Film Scanning Basics
November 2, 2025 | Sunday 12:30-5:30pm
Faculty: Twyla Sampaco
$145

Join us for an opportunity to learn how to use PCNW’s newest film scanning system, the Negative Supply direct digital capture station. In this introductory session, participants will learn all about the advantages of using this innovative digital capture system to get high resolution and fast digital files from a wide variety of film formats. We will cover proper workflow, from load, to digital capture via tethered DSLR, to negative file conversion in Adobe Lightroom. In addition to orientation on the Negative Supply station, this workshop will cover scanning workflow on both flatbed and dedicated film scanners, how resolution and interpolation affect scans, and settings and operation using industry-standard VueScan scanning software to achieve the best results from a scan.

TOPICS INCLUDE

• Negative Supply Digital Capture Scanning Workflow
• Cleaning the scanner and images
• Understanding channels
• Understanding bit depth
• Understanding resolution
• Evaluating and correcting images
• File formats
• Managing color
• Continuous tones versus dot pattern images
• Scanning transparent film, positive or negative
• Capturing dynamic range

If you have been scanning and not getting the results you want or are just getting started, join us for this workshop and finally make those negatives into positives.

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