Hello: everyone today we’re gon na learn how to digitize your old, slides and negatives, using equipment available in the Digital Media Lab the equipment we are using today is our Epson perfection B, 500 photo scanner which will scannot only regular photos and documents, but slides and negatives. As well, the program we’re going to use to scan your slides and negatives is called Epson scan to open press the Epson scan icon up down below so when Epson scan has opened. You should see this a menu here now note up near the top. It says mode and the mode we currently have here is home mode, which is the mode we want, if you don’t see home mode selected, just press mode and switch it to home mode now. The reason we want home mode is home mode, has fewer controls and less options than the other settings, but is far easier to use. It’S a main benefit, as you can select document type, which is right here. So press document, type and you’ll see your number of different documents. You can select photograph positive, film, colored, negative film and more so just press, whichever one you want, and the scanner will automatically format the settings to best match. instagram image downloader . Note that when you are scanning slides and negatives, it’s very important that you pick one of the film types, such as positive film or black and white negative film. The reason for this is, if you don’t pick one of these, the scanner will not scan them correctly. From the same menu, we can also pick our resolution for our scan, as well as the target size for our scan. Now, before we begin scanning, we need to load our media into the scanner so for normal media such as documents or photos, you just lift lid like that, then you take your media like this. Just put it facedown in the top right corner, or this little arrow is then just close, the lid. When scanning, slides and negatives, you have to do a few extra steps. The first is to lift up the scanner. You can remove this back panel here, which will reveal this scanning strip, which is what will actually be scanning, the slides and negatives. Next thing we need to scan, slides and negatives. Is this attachment right here? It has two sections to it section. A here is for your negatives and Section C here is for your slides. So if you want to insert a negative strip into the attachment, let me just unclip this section right here and then we take our negative strip and insert it right here then, with the attachment back on and then clip it shut. So once you have your negative securely in the attachment, you just take the attachment, you load it into the scanner, and you want to make sure that the a on the attachment here at just the a on the scanning bed just line it up like that. Then, if everything is secure, you closed lid and you are ready to scan your negative, so slides will work just a little bit differently with slides. We want to make sure that this C located down here is matched with the C underneath it and that when we load our slides like we have them here that they are flipped upside down, we do not want them right-side up. So if everything’s good with your slides, you just close the lid and you’re ready to scan once your media is set, you will be ready to scanned we’re going to use film negatives for this example. So we are going to switch our film type to negative film right now. It is but isn’t we would just click switch it to negative and we would be all set. So if we were scamming a normal document, we would just go down here and select scan. However, if you’re scamming, slides and negatives, you have to click preview first, so what preview will do is it will pull up a preview of each of the slides or negatives? You have separating them to individual pictures, so this will show you what each slide or photo will look like before you scan it. Not only that by clicking these check marks here we can include or exclude which pictures you want to actually be scanned. So if everything looks good, which it does here, we just go over here and press scan. So this will open up your files save settings here. We can select where the scan will go and location right. Now it’s just going to the desk top, which is where I’m going to keep it, but could also go into documents. Pictures or you can select another folder or even a flash drive down here and file name. I can pick what I want to name the file right now. The prefix is just IMG, but I can call it whatever I want and I can even select the start number for the file. So I’m gon na select start file to one and then in each scan it does. It will just keep going to a higher number down here. We have image format and the selection we have is JPEG, which is a standard file format for pictures. So there’s no need to change it. If we wanted to click it, we can go to TIFF PDF a couple other options, but for us, JPEG works just fine. If everything looks good, we just go down here and select. Ok, so now a scanning process will begin scan. Time will depend about how many pictures, you’re scanning, dpi final type and a few other factors, so we’re just gon na sit back and wait right now. It says it’ll take about couple minutes so I’ll skip ahead in the video until it is done. So once the progress bar is complete, your file will be created. Not only that, but Epson will automatically open the folder where the scan is stored, which is what we see right here on desktop so from here. We can move it copy, it share it or post it online. If you have more items to scan, you just need to load your material in and start the process over. The best part is Upson will automatically number your scan, so the files will always be named in the order you scanned them. You could also rename them later if you want to so with that. Our lesson is over. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at the Prospect Heights, Public Library and thank you for watching.