Follow all instructions on the Flatbed Scanner Tutorial with the following changes:

• Put slides in slide rack, front side down. Place frame on scanner and slide rack on scanner. Be sure to put the slides in properly. The slide rack should be placed so the short side is against the frame and the long top side is against the top of the scanner (left side of the scanning bed).
• Take out white pad on inside lid of scanner. You are ready to scan.

Once you have opened Adobe Photoshop and selected File-Import-Epson Expression and the driver window pops up

• Change "name" to "35mm slide" and "Document Type" to "Transparency" so the scanner knows it is a transparency
• Change resolution to 1200 (slides are small, this will help you get a big image)

• Preview your images by clicking "Preview".

• Marquees will form automatically for all 15 slides. Adjust the marquees as needed as they may be a little small. At this point you should not touch the slides themselves again.
• Highlight each slide and click "Scan". Photoshop will scan each individual slide and open the raw image. You must do this separately for each slide, but can scan them all and save them after scanning.
• Save each one as a TIFF as in the other tutorial.
• Each slide will be about 4MB per 1200 DPI, full color TIFF.

back to DCF homepage

comments to: Jennifer Weintraub
Last modified: December 14, 2004