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Scanner work.

This experiment was to help understand basic scanning on the mac computers and how to further develop scanned work on photo shop.

How to use a scanner: 

1. First you've got to make sure your scanner is connected. To do this you connect the USB lead into the port at the back of the mac box.
2. Once the scanner is connected place your images on the scanner, if its a 3D object place a piece of black paper behind the object to stop light interfering with the scan.
3. Once the scanner is connected open up photoshop. Go to file and click import. 
4. This brings up a box, click on preview. This does a preview scan.
5. Once this is done you then use the selection tool to highlight the ares you which to use.
6. After you've selected the area of the scan you wish to use it will bring it up on an untitled document in photoshop. 

This is one of my scans. Showing conkers.

Scanography. 

The inspired artist for this is Hong Hao. He was born in Beijing 1965, graduated from the central academy of fine art in 1989. He's mainly a contemporary Chinese artist. His work focuses on scanning objects then editing them in photoshop. His most famous work is a series of pieces named 'my things' what is shown below is just one piece from the series.

Each object in this piece has been scanned then edited in photoshop to give a cartoon like effect. Instead of scanning multiple items I just chose one to focus on one and develop it. I used basic adjustments to try and influence the colour. I didn't get time to try and animate my object, but next time I'll try and develop it that way. To properly understand Hong's style I need to practise in photoshop more.