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so everybody is mad here again from
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filter grid and today I'm going to be
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going over how to scan Polaroids at home
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with the apps on perfection v5 fifty
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photo scanner so to get started we're
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gonna just take a look at some different
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Polaroids I'm just gonna pick a few and
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then let's go ahead and load up the EPS
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on perfection or the EPS on scan two
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software all right so to get started
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you're gonna switch it to document mode
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because we're not standing on the
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negatives and then go ahead and load up
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the scanner I usually like to start off
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by getting the dust out off of it and
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then I use some like eyeglass spray or
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alcohol wipes just make sure whatever
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you use is safe on the scanner because
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you don't want to be brewing and ruining
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a glass or anything like that so just
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wipe it down and then give it one more
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pass and then I usually just suck the
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polar right down as in the center as I
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can get it but if it's not perfect I'll
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just drop it later so go ahead and click
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on preview to see where exactly the scan
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is another thing okay
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as you can see you might get something
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that's wrong and that's because I forgot
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to change this setting to document and
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so I'm gonna go ahead and head change
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this to color okay perfect and then I'm
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gonna do another preview just gonna
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still think it looks a bit off we'll
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just start okay so I'll go ahead and
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zoom in to get a better look on it
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alright so now we're a bit more zoomed
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in and you can see all the details on
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the corners the edges you can even see
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the drop shadow just so that you can see
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the whole folder you didn't get all the
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details all the colors so we can go
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ahead and change this to scan it at
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whatever you want whether it's TIFF or
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JPEG I prefer scanning and tip because
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then you can blow things up a bit larger
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but for right now just scan it as a JPEG
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and then I'm gonna go ahead and change
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the file name I usually try and label it
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by year that month and day and then
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whatever the file is so today I'll do 20
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20 30 and then I'll just eat
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as usually charm state consisting the
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numbering and then we're gonna go ahead
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and find the folder see what we get
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question I'm standing at 300dpi right
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now just for this test but you can go up
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as high as you want depending on the
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quality you need so it goes it goes to
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open up the folder right away and there
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you got there's your first Polaroid skin
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looks super nice there's a little bit of
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background stuff that was on my white
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backdrop but you can edit that out of
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post and then so usually from here I'll
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take the Polaroid into Lightroom or
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Photoshop crop it if I want to or just
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readjust everything but let's go ahead
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and scan another Polaroid maybe a black
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and white one this time so usually when
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I'm standing Polaroids
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I try not to scan with the black and
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white setting because it can come out
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wonky a bit like how it just lost so
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let's go ahead and zoom back in on this
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okay so this is what you get when you're
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scanning the black and white Polaroid I
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like to scan it in color for the image
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type because when you scan in black and
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white they can come out a bit wonky like
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this because it doesn't render the
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colors properly in the document mode but
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I've tried grayscale before which gives
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you that full black and white tone
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however just off of a preference thing I
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like scanning the my black and white
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in color for the image type because I
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think it gives it more of a hazy kind of
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brown like painted tone look but that's
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that's purely off of preference so I'm
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gonna go ahead and click scan and then
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I'm gonna go ahead and scan it as well
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in grayscale mode just to give you a
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look all right so now you can see the
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difference between these two so on the
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Left we have the grayscale which gives
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you the full black and white Polaroid
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and then on the right we have a black
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and white Polaroid that would scanned
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with a color image type in apps on scan
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settings which gives you a little bit of
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a brown a brown tone and let's go ahead
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and also scan one of the color Polaroid
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film photos with the grayscale to see
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what that looks like as well so I'm
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going to be using this color film photo
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and I'm gonna go ahead and scan it with
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the grayscale image type let's go ahead
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okay so as you can see with the great
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skill that'll take all the color out of
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it similarly similar to Lightroom or
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Photoshop but you can just do it um
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and apps on scan to get that look
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beforehand so just again here's the
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color difference and I'm gonna go ahead
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and just also play around with some of
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the settings you can change the
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brightness and contrast a bit if
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something looks a bit off some of the
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times you need to be careful though
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because this could also affect the
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border as you can see you lose some of
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the shadow detail right here let's put
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it back to zero you can still see it
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again so just be careful about that if
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you start to play around with the
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brightness and contrast because you
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don't want to lose the film but if
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you're just scanning for example right
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inside then it might be something you're
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looking for but something I would
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recommend is just always keep an eye out
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for the border because many times with
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Polaroids the reason that there are
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physical photo is so that they this
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should it be edited or anything like
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that so I usually for me at least I try
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to keep it as clean consistent as
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possible so to understand this
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so let's go ahead and open this up and
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there you can see the the color Polaroid
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that I shot and I scanned it in black
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and so that's about it that's how you
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scan your Polaroids at home and if you
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have any questions feel free to drop a
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comment below or reach out to me on
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Instagram I'll see you next time guys
