Working With Art Pieces Getting Correct Colors From Scans
Fine Art Scanning FAQ
Q: How does your browse pricing work?
Q: How is my artwork scanned? what equipment exercise yous use?
Q: What do I get with my Browse?
Q: At what resolution do you scan artwork?
Q: If yous scan my original, can you impress it a different size?
Q: What is your turnaround time?
Q: Do you practice rush orders?
Q: What makes your scans different from other scans, or a photo?
Q: Are in that location paints or paintings that don't reproduce well?
Q: Do you offering any kind of warranty?
Q: How long do you store my files?
Q: What about copyright considerations?
Q: At what chip depth practise you scan artwork?
Q: In what color space do you save your art scans?
Q: In what file format do you save your art scans?
Q: I'm having trouble downloading tif files from dropbox
Q: If I'grand mailing in originals to scan what should I practise?
How does your scan pricing piece of work?
A single browse, covering an surface area of up to 36″x48″ is $xc.00. We will put upward to two images in a scan for $90.00. We charge a $fifteen.00 separation fee for boosted images, and nosotros will put upwards to iv images in a browse.
New Browse pricing chart 2022
How is my artwork captured, or scanned?
We scan original artwork using our BetterLight large format scanning dorsum camera and special lighting. We accept invested many thousands of dollars in the finest fine fine art digitizing equipment in order to ensure that your artwork is captured perfectly. Our scanner covers an area of near 36″x48″ at 300 PPI. Below is a video explaining our large format scanning process.
The scanning back camera uses a 4×5 large format camera, and especially calibrated equipment to ensure that the camera lens and the artwork are at perfect right angles. We also have special lighting that produces full spectrum light, and cross-polarized panels and lenses, in social club to accurately capture the total color spectrum in your artwork without problems, such as specular highlighting (piffling white reflections), commonly associated with scanning or photographing artwork, especially oil paintings, acrylic paintings etc.
With very small detailed drawings and artifacts, we use macro lenses with the browse back to capture the epitome at super high resolution. Actress charges may be associated with special art scanning that requires custom setup.
What practice I get with my Scan?
Each Browse comes with the full resolution .Tiff file of your piece (more often than not 300ppi – 330ppi at original size), and a pre-formatted reduced size .jpg, platonic for electronic mail, web pages, or social media. Yous will receive a pocket-size physical proof on our proofing paper so you can see how the color will print.
Every bit part of the scanning service, we volition always provide your files to you via dropbox. Simply download the files onto your figurer at home! If you bring in a thumbdrive or external harddrive for us to burn your files, we charge $10 for our fourth dimension.
At what resolution do y'all browse the artwork?
Nosotros scan images @ 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or amend, at the size of the paradigm. If you want to know how many pixels that volition be, multiply the number of inches by 300 on both sides (H 10 300 * Due west x 300) of your artwork or image. However, because our scanner scans each color channel separately, it creates a higher quality pixel than a standard flatbed scanner. Most flatbed scanners digitally increase the output resolution of the scans to reach higher ppi like 1200 ppi and up. What all this means is that our 300 ppi scan produces a clear, loftier quality file of your work that will easily permit you to print twice equally large every bit your original. Some flatbed scanners may claim higher ppi but the images they produce may still exist lower quality and ofttimes practise not print equally crisply at enlarged sizes.
Oversized images (larger than 36×48) may be scanned at less than 300 ppi. To capture a very large piece, the camera has to be moved back further, reducing the output resolution. Withal these are all the same huge files, and volition print original size no problem. In many cases they tin can even so be printed larger than original, because for a huge print viewing distance generally balances out the small reduction in clarity.
If you scan my original, can yous print it a different size?
Yes. In one case nosotros take scanned your artwork, it can be printed in diverse sizes. In general we discourage people from enlarging their artwork too much. Even if the resolution is great, it becomes like looking at a painting through a magnifying glass. Y'all start to encounter all the little imperfections, domestic dog hairs, shut-up brush strokes etc. But it's very piece of cake to take a scan and make diverse smaller sizes. This is very helpful for selling artwork, as many times buyers won't have room for a large painting in their business firm or apartment.
The exception to this is when people are reproducing banners, billboards and signage that volition be enlarged, in which case the paradigm is generally viewed from far away and doesn't need the aforementioned fidelity equally an art print. We have washed scans that were used for billboards, and the sides of buildings.
Here's a video of Tenhun using our scans for a huge landscape that went on the side of a building.
The only matter to proceed in mind is aspect ratios! This cannot exist emphasized enough. When making various smaller sizes of an epitome, information technology needs to exist reduced proportionally. For example, you cannot accept a 24″ 10 36″ painting, and make an eight″x10″, unless you ingather off two inches. From a 24″ 10 36″ painting, you can brand an 8″x12″, every bit both have a 2:3 ratio. An 8″x10″ has a 4:v ratio.
If you don't empathise this (which is understandable for those of us who don't similar doing math), nosotros have a very handy aspect ratio estimator on our website. You tin can use it to calculate the different sizes at which your image will impress. All y'all need to know is the original size in pixels, cm, or inches, or feet. Then you put in either the length or width of the new size you lot want and information technology will calculate the other dimension. Requite it a try.
What is your turnaround fourth dimension?
Unremarkably our turnaround time is 1-3 business concern days depending on our queue at the time. We guarantee a five working solar day turnaround time. Since nosotros encourage about clients to look at proofs before printing new scans, you should program for two plow-around periods for a Scan+Print gild (3-5 days for the scans, and another 3-five days for the prints.) Annotation that we ask for 5 working days for a scan, and if you must accept it earlier then, we charge a blitz fee.
Do yous practice blitz orders?
Nosotros accuse $$$ for rush orders if our scanning queue allows for a blitz task. Nosotros'll merely commit to a rush guild if nosotros know nosotros can run across your deadline. For big orders of multiple scans, there may be additional blitz charges. If yous are a first time client, we may not be comfortable doing a blitz social club. The Fine Art Printing and Scanning procedure can have a learning curve, and if nosotros have never worked with you before, starting with a last-minute rush gild may do both parties a disservice. We rarely offer "Browse while you wait services" and if nosotros do, we accuse $125 per hr with a two hour minimum. Our art scanning process is a very easily on service, and crave a trained professional eye to closely match the original piece to the digital file.
However, there is a caveat to Rush jobs. Retrieve the saying, "Yous tin can take it right, or you tin can have it now, but you tin can't take information technology right, now"? All of the work we do requires attention to detail, and the more nosotros try to rush the process, the more likely it is that something will go incorrect.
If you are upward against a borderline and you are ordering prints or scans at the last minute and find a trouble, such equally an mistake that we didn't notice, then we may or may not be able to fix any bug in time for your deadline. Nosotros brand our very best try to assist you considering nosotros similar and respect our clients, withal we need to ask for your understanding and cooperation when it comes to "emergency press and scanning". Nosotros're not Kinkos, and we're not the fire department, but we will exercise our best with the resources nosotros take.
What makes your scans different from other scans, or a photo?
Our organisation is prepare upwards specifically for documenting artwork. Other scanners (flatbed scanners and drum-scanners) are setup to all-time capture documents, or transparent slides, etc, only this oft ways that they cannot practise justice to your original artworks. Y'all volition find that the color is off in many cases, and that the levels and contrast will non friction match your original very well. Since our system is designed with original art in mind, the scans are much more accurate to the original in most cases. Even the all-time digital cameras create very minor files compared to a scanner. While yous can sometimes accept photos yourself that expect close to the original piece, the resolution is often still also modest to brand high quality prints from (even the best professional DSLRs oftentimes don't print larger than 20×30)
Our lighting setup is designed with cross-polarization (UV filters on the lens and the lights), which reduces the glare on shiny paintings. Most oil paintings will bear witness very trivial spectral highlights in the scan, and if whatever do occur we will do our all-time to remove them. Fully varnished or resin-coated pieces are most at adventure for this, but nosotros tin can yet scan them in many cases (unless they are very large). Watercolors turn out beautifully on our scanner because information technology does not capture the texture of the paper, so when you reprint your watercolor on a watercolor newspaper it volition exist as close to the original every bit possible.
Hither is a comparison of a piece that was photographed professionally with a loftier-cease DSLR (Canon 5d marking iii), and and then scanned with our Betterlight Scanner
(Click the prototype to enlarge)
| Catechism 5D marking three Photograph | Betterlight Browse |
Every bit you lot can see, the photograph-version has a lot of specular highlighting and glare, while the scan is pristine and just showcases the colors of the piece. The levels of the photograph as well do not match the original (they are much too potent and then the prototype loses detail), while the scan is very close to the original. The photograph has some distortion from the lens, while the scan does non take lens baloney. The photo has a filesize of approximately 16MB while the scan has a filesize of approximately125MB (for a 16×xx piece). The photo does show off the metallic paint more (towards the bottom right) simply at the expense of color/resolution/specular highlighting, etc. While many of these differences are very noticable on-screen, it really becomes a huge upshot when its time to brand prints. A digital file that has to be up-rezzed or has color and glare bug will not print well.
Particular view of the difference between the photo (left) and Betterlight scan (right)
Here is a more than common example of a photographed work compared with one of our Betterlight Scans. The original piece is a very small and extremely detailed colored pencil drawing. Its piece of cake to encounter that the regular photograph doesn't pick up whatsoever of the detailed line-work, and the contrast is much too stiff.
Comparing of the difference between the photograph (left) and Betterlight scan (right) Artwork by Mary Jane Easley (world wide web.easleystreetstudios.com)
Are there paints or paintings that don't reproduce well?
While our scanner is the all-time-available engineering science for documenting artwork with a high-degree of color accuracy. Sure pigments and paint furnishings are outside of the scope of this process. Metallic paints and metal leafing are problematic and often can't be captured, every bit they represent the reflective properties of a metal element, as opposed to a color range. We have a few special techniques that can produce a amend result with certain pieces, only this is on a case by case basis. Here is a video showing how we scan and edit gold, argent and irised colors
Below are some examples of artwork which included gold and metallics, as captured by our scanner. Oft, the pieces that turn out the best have isolated areas of gold or silver, rather than metallic pigments mixed into the residue of the image or very fine metal line-piece of work or details.
Can yous scan iridescent colors?
No. This should be explained in the previous question, merely nosotros're getting this question a lot due to increased availability of iridescent paints, especially acrylics.
First, it's of import to sympathise what iridescent is; it is an optical phenomenon characterized as "the property of surfaces in which hue changes co-ordinate to the angle from which the surface is viewed."
Iridescence is acquired by multiple reflections from multi-layered, semi-transparent surfaces in which phase shift and interference of the reflections modulates the incident low-cal past amplifying or attenuating some frequencies more than others. 1
From a physics standpoint this is rather uncommon behavior, and in human-made objects this is normally only found in paints that are specifically designed for this issue. Therefore, iridescent behavior is the beliefs of a special property not institute in regular pigment or dye based inks. Also, because the apparent image changes with the angle of observation, iridescence is not fully reproduced by conventional photography.
If we do reproduction work and your image includes iridescent paint, then you will get any colour the camera sees when the work is perfectly perpendicular to the artwork. Nosotros have real samples in the studio of paint chips and paint samples that nosotros've scanned and printed that evidence exactly what an artist can expect with sure types of paint.
Exercise you offer any kind of warranty?
Yes. First nosotros guarantee you volition be satisfied with the quality of the scan, or we volition remake it or refund your money in full. Nosotros believe in the quality of our work and stand backside it 100%. If for any reason you are not satisfied nosotros will either refund your coin or make it right (within 30 days from when you receive the social club). Delight check over your scans and prints advisedly when yous receive them, and so we can help you as soon every bit possible if there is a problem. Notation that if we experience we take come equally close to the original as we reasonably tin, we may offer a refund or accuse for boosted editing. Nosotros do non promise to offer a perfect friction match in every sense. Some things shift color more than than others, and colour accuracy is subjective. There is a limit to what nosotros tin and will do for a $85 scan.
Warranty of color: We practice our all-time to match your original colors, and ask you lot to check the color proofs when you pickup your original artwork and proofs. Even so, this does not always mean absolute perfection, every bit stated above, especially with color, which is subjective. If a customer asks us for new proofs, and we have to run multiple proofs until you lot are absolutely satisfied, we charge an actress proofing fee. In some cases a client wants the states to produce multiple proofs for a complete museum match, and asks for very subtle color changes subsequently nosotros have completed the job, and we exercise accuse extra for that., and sometimes we will tell a client that we can't reasonably come closer at any cost.
How long do you shop my files?
We promise to keep your files for upwardly to 2 years if there is no printing activeness. This is our liability disclaimer (although we brand no merits for liability for loss of your files if you lose your copy). Although we only guarantee to go on your files for ii years, we have over 12 years of files as of 2020, and have never discarded or lost whatsoever of our scans. We have off-site backups as well, so chances are pretty expert that your files are safe with us no matter how long it's been.
Clients are advised to keep a re-create of their files and treat them as you would other valuable electronic documents, photos or heirlooms. Nosotros charge $20 to provide past scans if you lost them, and they are provided via dropbox.
What nearly copyright considerations? Do I keep all the rights to my artwork?
We go on images from your fine art scans strictly confidential. Bellevue Fine Art Reproduction does not allow any artwork or images to be printed without the creative person or copyright holder's authorization. Artists maintain complete copyright over their own files and images! Nosotros make no copyright claims to an artist images and we provide artists their own copy of the loftier resolution images. We continue your files as a convenience and service.
We're ofttimes asked if nosotros require artists to sign a form stating that the work is theirs. In general the reply is no. Nosotros generally don't check, and we tin't really be the copyright law. All the same, if it's quite obvious that yous don't have rights to the artwork or image, then nosotros tin can't reproduce it and may ask for something in writing.
We do take some copyright release forms for various reasons, and if we're non sure so we'll ask yous to sign a liability release form, and you're on your way.
The exception to this is art collectors who have rare pieces in their collections and want to have a digital backup and a copy for various reasons. In some cases collectors need high quality art scans to show in catalogs on the Cyberspace, or for portfolios, which may autumn nether off-white use.
In some cases older art work is no longer copyright protected, and the owner is free to do what they want with the artwrok. Collectors also want high quality art scans of valuable artwork for archival and insurance purposes, which is a legitimate use.
At what bit depth do you scan artwork?
Bit Depth: Our professional scans are supplied at 8 bits per RGB color channel. We edit the files and color proof at 16bit, then change the file to 8bit when we're finished, except in special cases. In about cases 16bit files become huge and difficult to manage, and in nearly cases there is no advantage to having your artwork scans at 16bit. Just in cases where there are large soft gradients, such as a subtle blue sky, is information technology necessary to continue your artwork or photography at 16bits.
Flatbed scanners operate a lilliputian differently, and they phone call their files 48bit and 24bit (16bits per color channel or 8bits per color channel, across the RGB color channels). A 48bit image does not have a greater dynamic range (maximum shadow to maximum highlight range) than 24bit but more tonal 'steps' within this range.
What colour space practice y'all save your art scans in?
Colour Space: Our professional art scans are output with 'Adobe RGB 1998' colour space. This large colour space is used for professional photographic and fine fine art Giclee printing. Adobe RGB files can be converted DOWN to the smaller sRGB colour infinite only if you convert sRGB files Upward to Adobe RGB you will still have a file with missing colours! None-the-less we recommmend leaving your art scans in the Adobe RGB 1998 color space. Nosotros too propose against using Pro Photograph, as information technology describes colors that cannot be viewed or printed.
Hither'due south a video to aid empathise ICC color spaces.
In what file format do you lot salvage your art scans?
File Formats: For professional person art scans we supply uncompressed single or multi layer TIF files in Windows format as Macintosh computers will besides open these. Nosotros tin can also supply every bit PSD (PhotoShop) files and other formats only you should be aware that some compression is inherant. We supply our art scans in TIF format because they can handle layers, and TIF files are industry standard and program neutral, and can be opened by whatsoever graphic editing or photo editing software, then that artists aren't locked into Adobe Photoshop.
Nosotros also supply lower resolution jpg files with every art browse and then that artists have jpg files that are gear up to use on websites and share in social media, such as artist's facebook pages, Instagram, Pinterest, WordPress blogs etc.
I'thousand having trouble downloading my TIF files from dropbox?
After your scans are finished, and we transport y'all the dropbox link, that link volition open a webpage to dropbox. In the upper correct hand corner there is a button to download your files. Using this method will download all of your scan files, both TIF and JPG, equally a zero file.
Note that dropbox may display thumbnails for some or all of the spider web jpgs (the preview jpg files meant for web and social media), but it cannot display thumbnail images for the tif files considering they are too large. This is normal and information technology's not a problem.
If you desire to download a single file, or if you lot want to download your files one at a time, you lot may encounter an mistake when clicking on TIF files that says dropbox had an error. The error is that although dropbox recognizes the TIF files equally image files and wants to display them, information technology cannot because the files are too big. Simply ignore the error and click on the download push button every bit shown here:
Select "straight download" to download the file to your computer.
Rest assured there is naught wrong with your file. Simply download the file and and so open up it on your computer using Photoshop or a similar photo editing software. Note that if you use the built in image previewer that comes with both MAC and Windows, the file may accept time to open depending on the speed and power of your calculator. Some of our files exceed a gigabyte depending on paradigm size.
If I'1000 mailing in originals to scan what should I do?
If you are mailing in original artwork for scanning, or having a friend drop-off piece of work for y'all, please complete our Artwork Dropoff Form so nosotros accept all the important information about your originals. Also be sure to include all of your contact information with the artwork, so we know who the art belongs to. We will contact y'all in one case nosotros take received the work to let you know it is safe!
Source: https://www.bellevuefineart.com/art-scanning-faq/
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