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Preparing archival images with Photoshop

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Preparing archival images with Photoshop

So far we've taken a close look at all of our video media. But I want to do a similar thing and take a close look at the stills that we have to use, these are archival scans that we've made in an archive. Here you see are three original scans, they are in the original scans folder in the exercise files. I want to open all three of these in Photoshop where we'll do this work, so I'm going to right-click and just Open With and choose Photoshop CS6. You can see all three of our scans lined up in Photoshop, and in this case, my work involves two things, one is an analysis of the content, what do I really have here that same sort of logging thinking, but the other is actually some technical prep to make this more usable in our Timeline in Premiere Pro. Now I like to do a little light prep at the beginning just to make things easier to work with, but make no mistake I'm not trying to do the final Photoshop work on these scans. That will come later, but these are so rough and ragged looking…

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