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Botanical scans

Botanical scans

From the course: Creating Art with Your Desktop Scanner

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Botanical scans

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- Scanners are really great for capturing images of plants, and flowers, and such. And what I'm gonna do here is give you my top 20 tips and ideas about scanning botanical specimens, whether they're straight from nature, or straight from the flower stand at a grocery store. Okay, number one, it only takes one tiny flower and maybe the bottom of a to-go coffee cup to make for a great botanical scan. I've converted this shot to black and white, and as you'll see, I've also applied other looks to the rest of the images on this video. Okay, number two, aim for images that aren't necessarily the kind that could be easily captured with a regular camera, like a shot here of a solo flower that kind of seems to be floating in space. Number three, patterns can be fun. Patterns made from dense arrangements of things plucked from the ground. Also, don't forget that patterns can make really nice backdrops for words. And number four, some plants, especially weeds that you pulled out of the yard…

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