By: John F. Williams

This tutorial is intended to familiarize you with the steps necessary in getting a negative in the computer, working with the image in PhotoShop and saving the file to a disk. This tutorial is not all-inclusive. It also assumes a basic knowledge of the Macintosh computer. And remember that there can be different ways to obtain the same results, especially when working in PhotoShop. If you are comfortable using a different method feel free.

The advice I am giving is based on what a typical newspaper photojournalist would do in the same situation.

This tutorial is presented in two parts. The first part will deal with scanning the negative using the Konica Qscan scanner available in the Temple University Graphics Lab. The second part deals with some basic steps you can do in PhotoShop to size, correct and save the scanned photo. I will not deal with advanced color correction or photo manipulation in this tutorial.

Part One:

Step one: Log on to computer and open Adobe PhotoShop 4.0, 5.0 or 5.5.

Step two: Once PhotoShop is open go to File-->Import and select Qscan. (fig. 1a)

fig. 1a. Opening screen

Step three: Place film (5 or 6 frame strip) in the film carrier and put the carrier in the Qscan. Qscan will automatically recognize the type of film. Push the film carrier in until the green light stops flashing and the scan will begin (fig. 2a).

fig. 2a. All six frames will be pre-scanned.

Step four: From the six thumbnails (fig. 2a) click the image you want to scan (fig. 3a).

fig. 3a. This screen displays the image you selected to scan.

Step five: Set image size to 1200 DPI by using the slider bar at the bottom of fig. 3a. Click START SCAN. It should take approximately 2-3 minutes to scan.

After the scan is complete your image will appear in PhotoShop.