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8:04 PM, Monday April 19th 2021

I am not an expert on scanners. The main issue is that the contrast is set very high which makes the image appear black and white, but will also remove some of the subtlety from your mark making. That subtlety helps TAs and Uncomfortable identify mistakes in your mark making.

If you cannot find a way to lower the contrast, I suggest taking your work outside on a sunny day and photographing it with your phone. Just make sure you aren't casting a shadow over your work. If it is not possible to adjust your settings or document your work another way then continue as are.

11:46 PM, Wednesday July 28th 2021

Hello,

As I'm beginning to scan in my homework for lesson 2, I remembered your message about the high contrast. I found the exposure settings (brightness, contrast, midtone) on my scanner. The default values were all set to '0'. I scanned one image with default settings and then another one with '-25' contrast while leaving brightness and midtone at '0':

https://imgur.com/a/rDydHGF

Do you think the lower contrast image looks better? Thank you.

2:15 AM, Thursday July 29th 2021

Scylla's right next to me, we're looking at your work together - and to be honest, I think your scanner is ramping up the contrast on the raw image, before applying these adjustments. So the second option isn't really any less harsh, it's just lighter.

You may just want to use a phone camera instead (ideally lit by daylight), rather than using the scanner. Generally speaking even though people feel that scanners are preferable, well lit photos are often more accurate in capturing the nuance of a student's work.

3:13 PM, Thursday July 29th 2021

Okay yeah, that makes sense. I will try taking pictures outside then. Thanks!

7:36 PM, Saturday July 31st 2021

I took this outside on a sunny day:

https://imgur.com/KE1qKtL

Is this okay?

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