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Good afternoon.

Sticker is not only fun for children, but also sometimes convenient and necessary thing(helps you quickly find your way around). For example, you have several identical boxes in which you store various tools. It would be convenient if each of them had a specific sticker: drills here, screwdrivers here, etc.

Of course, you can now find a huge variety of stickers in stores, but still, not all of them (and it takes time to search)! In this article, I would like to consider the question of how to make a sticker yourself without using any rare things or equipment (by the way, the sticker will not be afraid of water!).

What do you need?

1) Scotch tape.

The most ordinary tape will do. On sale today you can find tape of various widths: for creating stickers, the wider the better (although a lot depends on the size of your sticker)!

2) Picture.

You can draw the picture yourself on paper. Or you can download it on the Internet and print it on a regular printer. In general, the choice is yours.

3) Scissors.

No comments (any will do).

4) Warm water.

Regular tap water will do.

I think almost everyone has everything they need to create a sticker in their home! And so, let's move directly to creation.

How to make it waterproof sticker yourself - step by step

STEP 1 - search for a picture

The first thing we need is the picture itself, which will be drawn or printed on plain paper. In order not to search for the image for a long time, I simply printed it on a regular laser printer(printer black and white) picture from my previous one about antiviruses.

Rice. 1. The picture was printed on a regular laser printer.

By the way, there are now printers on sale that can immediately print ready-made stickers! For example, on the website http://price.ua/catalog107.html you can buy a barcode and sticker printer.

STEP 2 - processing the picture with tape

The next step is to “laminate” the surface of the picture with tape. This must be done carefully so that waves and folds do not form on the surface of the paper.

Scotch sticks only on one side of the picture(from the front, see Fig. 2). Be sure to smooth the surface with an old calendar or plastic card so that the tape sticks well to the paper with the picture ( this is a very important detail).

By the way, it is undesirable for the size of your image to be more width tape Of course, you can try to glue the tape “overlapping” (this is when one strip of tape lies partially on top of another) - but the final result may not be so great...

Rice. 2. The surface of the picture is covered with tape on one side.

STEP 3 - cut out the picture

Now you need to cut out the picture (ordinary scissors will do). The picture, by the way, is cut out to the final size (i.e. this will already be the final size of the sticker).

In Fig. 3 shows what happened for me.

Rice. 3. the picture is cut out

STEP 4 - water treatment

The last step is to treat our workpiece with warm water. This is done quite simply: put the picture in a cup of warm water (or even just hold it under running tap water).

After about a minute, the back surface of the picture (which is not treated with tape) will be well wet and you can easily begin to remove it with your fingers (you just need to gently rub the surface of the paper). There is no need to use any kind of scrapers!

As a result, almost all the paper will be removed, and the picture itself (and a very bright one) will remain on the tape. Now all you have to do is wipe and dry the sticker (you can wipe it with a regular towel).

The resulting sticker has a number of advantages:

It is not afraid of water (waterproof), which means it can be glued to a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.;

When dry, the sticker adheres very well and sticks to almost any surface: iron, paper (including cardboard), wood, plastic, etc.;

The sticker is quite wear-resistant;

Does not fade or fade in the sun (at least for a year or two);

And lastly: the cost of its production is extremely low: one sheet of A4 - 2 rubles, a piece of adhesive tape (a few kopecks). Finding a sticker in a store for that price is almost impossible...

Thus, at home, without having any special equipment. equipment, you can make fairly high-quality stickers (if you get your hands on them, you won’t be able to tell them apart from store-bought ones).

That's all for me. I would appreciate any additions.

Good luck with your images!

The basis of any printing shop is printing equipment. Equipment for the production of stickers is the most popular and in demand equipment in the enterprise.

The simplest machine for producing stickers is electronic balance in a supermarket that weighs goods and simultaneously prints a price tag. This type of technique is called template technology because it is designed to print only one type of sticker.

At a professional printing enterprise, an order for a large number of Stickers containing several colors in their image are produced on offset printing machines. This is the most common type of technology, differing high quality impression and high speed work.

For small print runs, it makes sense to use silk-screening equipment to produce stickers. In this case, the transfer of text or image to the main material occurs from the printed grid ( special form). The paint, being pressed through microscopic cells, remains on the paper in the form of a given pattern. This printing method is called silk-screen printing. High-quality printing of stickers is guaranteed when using no more than three colors.

To produce a minimum number of self-adhesive stickers, you can use simple office equipment. The printer for producing stickers can be inkjet or laser. The base is paper with adhesive backing such as Orakal or Xerox with a matte or glossy surface. Color palette It comes in a wide variety of shades, so laser printing can be done in black and white.

We make stickers (Although, it’s better to buy them):

Method one.

First you need to prepare a drawing. You can draw it by hand or on the computer. Stickers self made unique in their uniqueness, but in computer drawing It will be easier for you to make changes or resize the sketch. You can combine both methods - draw by hand, and then scan or, as a last resort, photograph with a digital camera.

You can print on plain paper. If you use colored bright paper- stickers will look more attractive. To reproduce drawings, regular will do Xerox. Next we glue it with any glue. Of course, you should choose glue depending on the surface on which you are going to glue your drawing. In most cases, regular office glue or PVA glue is suitable. If you have a sticker big size- Wallpaper glue and a roller will do here.

The disadvantage of such stickers is that they are very susceptible to external influences - they are not resistant to moisture, and drawings made with a pen or markers very quickly discolor (fade) or blur.

Method two. An alternative to glue.

Suitable for small size stickers. We create a drawing on paper in an arbitrary way - and as a means of fixation we use double-sided tape, one side of which is glued to the back of the drawing, the second - to the wall.

Method three. Lamination.

To ensure that your decal is less exposed to external factors(dampness, mechanical damage such as scratching and paint peeling) we need to protect the front surface of the drawing. At home, for this purpose it is impossible would be better suited transparent tape. The wider the tape, the fewer “seams” there will be in the drawing. To avoid air getting under the tape, start gluing from one side rather than gluing the entire strip at once. When applying tape, smooth it with a ruler, plastic card or any other object with a hard, even edge.

You can also use a special transparent thermal film for lamination; you can buy it in almost any office supply store. Place it on the surface of the design with the adhesive side and simply iron it with an iron.

Method four. Self-adhesive paper.

For paper, you can use self-adhesive paper or special decorative self-adhesive paper "Oracal". We draw a drawing on plain paper in the usual way. In the case of Oracal paper, the situation is a little different.

This paper has a smooth glossy surface, because an ordinary pen, ink or art paints will be useless here. Draw with gel pens or special markers for glass (permanent) or CDs. There are many more ways to apply images to Oracal, which can be found experimentally. You can, for example, try to make an application with the same “Oracal” in a different color.

Method five.

If you have a printer at home, buy special adhesive paper for the printer at the store. And just print the drawing

All about digital photography

Ordinary scanners are not designed for scanning slides and negatives due to insufficient backlighting. However, there is a trick that will allow you to do this using small amount cardboard By constructing a clever design, you can redirect the light flux and achieve the desired result.

If you have old negatives lying around in your archive that you would like to convert into digital format, you have the opportunity to scan them. But simple scanning will not work for these purposes.

In order for everything to work out, you need powerful source light, which should be behind the negative or a multifunctional scanner.

Of course you can buy special scanner for films, but if you already have a regular flatbed scanning device, you can get by with it.

You can use a regular cardboard reflector to scan film or slide. It will capture the light emitted by the scanner and reflect it from reverse side slide. Such a reflector will make it possible to scan films and slides like regular documents.

To make a reflector we will need the following materials:

Sheet of thick A4 cardboard with silver side
Pencil
Scissors
Scotch
Ruler

Instructions

Step 1: On the non-silver side of the cardstock, print or draw the following pattern.

Step 2: Cut out the template and fold it so that the silver side is facing inward.

Step 3: Connect the template into a triangle. It should resemble a wedge. This will leave one side open. The shiny part must be inside.

Let's start using our reflector. Place film or slide on the scanner glass. Place a reflector on top. In order to achieve good result Align one side of the slide with the center of the reflector. There is no need to close the scanner cover. You can start scanning. If you end up with uneven lighting in your photo, you can try placing a thin sheet of tissue paper between the negative and the reflector.

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The paper will diffuse the light flux and prevent the scanner from capturing the space behind the film.

Having achieved a satisfactory result, you need to crop the image along the contour of the slide, since the scanner scans the entire glass, and we only need a small frame. Cropping can be done in any graphics editor. To obtain the clearest image, you should scan from high resolution. It is recommended to use 1200 DPI.

After scanning, you will need to do some photo manipulation with the image. If you scanned a negative, you will have to invert the colors. This can be done even in Microsoft Paint, so there shouldn’t be any difficulties here. You can also do a little processing of the image in any graphic editor. It is recommended to increase the brightness or contrast.

If dust gets on the negative during scanning, it can be removed with a soft lens brush or cosmetic brush. To remove stains or scratches, you can use the healing brush tool.

For this you can use free programs, such as GIMP or Paint.net. They are available for free download and are easy to find on the Internet.

This photo shows (from left to right): direct scan, inverted scan and final image after removing scratches and dust. The whole job took no more than 10 minutes.

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1 step

Scanner with slide module

Let me make a reservation right away that you can scan the film normally only on a scanner with a slide module.

The slide module is a device inside the scanner cover, consisting of a special plate and some other elements. If you just put film on the scanner glass, the result will be terrible, everything will be overexposed and ruined. In addition, the scanner must have a real (not to be confused with interpolated) resolution optical resolution not lower than 2400dPi, but better 4800dPi.

Step 2

We need to prepare the film. Cut it into pieces of 6 frames each. Before doing this, it is advisable to rinse the film with plain water. Wipe the scanner glass with glass cleaning liquid, otherwise every speck of dust will be visible in the photo. Detach the slide module plate and attach the film to it.

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To press tightly, use small plates along the edges. Attach the slide module to the scanner lid and lower the lid.

Step 3

Software You can use the software included with the scanner as a program for scanning film. Also copes well with this task VueScan program. You can download it from the resource. This utility supports most scanners and has many settings. The scanning process itself is not much different from scanning photographs. You need to select the media type Slide\Film, scan resolution and location to save the file. Format created file choose BMP or TIFF, if you choose JPEG, you will lose picture quality. Batch mode allows you to scan multiple slides at the same time. It is better to process the resulting image in graphic editors, such as Photoshop. Source akak.ru

On a weak PC, high-resolution scanning can take quite a long time.
Do not use multifunctional devices(MFP) for film digitization.
You can scan both negatives and positives.

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How to make a slide module for a scanner

When I wrote about a homemade shoe dryer, I understandably wanted to post a photo of this miracle. But when I ordered “all the resulting” photos to be printed on film, the stupid operators did not understand the genius of this device and left it unprinted. I didn’t want to go to them a second time. Then I thought about making a slide module for my Umax Astra 4700 scanner. Well, don’t buy it for fifty dollars, really!
The most obvious way: put the film on the glass and shine a lamp from above through white paper for uniformity - but it didn’t work. Couldn't find the right brightness, etc.

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Although, theoretically, this is probably possible.
An attempt to force the scanner driver into film scanning mode resulted in it turning off the lamp (this is good) and shouting that it could not be positioned (this is bad). Probably, there is some kind of calibration scale on the native slide module... Well, to hell with it.
A search on the Internet gave a description of the design of two mirrors. That's what I decided to do. But everything turned out to be somewhat different from what was described. In general, just for fun, I’m posting how it happened.
You will need:
— two mirrors approximately 60*60 mm (deviations in any direction are possible, affecting the result);
— a box from a 5-inch CD;
- glue for plastics and glass (preferably cyanoacrylic - second);
- a hacksaw, or a jigsaw, or a knife, in general, something that can be used to cut a box of CDs.

Ideally, you will also need a piece of glass, but if the box is not scratched, this will do. Although the quality will, of course, be worse.

Take the lid from the CD and cut off two corners (right triangles with sides about 3 cm). This will be a 90 degree measure at which the mirrors need to be glued together. Glue mirrors to them with the reflective surface inward to make a house. When it dries, we place this house on what is left of the lid (so that the mirrors look down) and glue it to the lower ribs.
You will get something like this design. I tried to photograph her with a webcam from different angles, but it still didn’t work out very well. (click to enlarge)

How to use what you got

The main thing is patience. Wait until the glue dries so as not to crap the scanner glass :)))

Place the emulsion film on the scanner. We place the house on top so that the mirrors look down, and the film is shifted to its edge and lies parallel to the junction of the mirrors (see pictures).

Moreover, we place the house ALONG the movement of the carriage - this is the main know-how. We cover it all with an opaque box on top - it can increase the contrast of the image. Again, see the picture.

It is useful to paint the inside of the box with black paint - all for contrast.
And... full speed ahead! Resolution - 1200-2400.

The result will be something like the horror in the picture on the right.

There is no need to despair - this is what we wanted. Upload it to Microsoft Photo Editor(it’s in the MS Office installer, in the Office Tools branch) or something smarter. Make a negative out of this image. I got an average picture, in which the colors are already visible, but there is a lot of blue. Photo Editor has a Balance function, which allows you to change the brightness of both the entire image and each color component separately. With its help you need to remove the blue, you can add red. And the result is what we see in the left picture. And all the scratches on it come from the cover of the CD (use glass, comrades!).
It is, of course, not a fountain, but for some purposes it is very suitable.

Good luck!

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Scanning negatives

Comrades (or whatever is fashionable today), gentlemen of the forum.

I decided to convert my family photo archive to digital format.
There are just a lot of negatives! Since the 80s of the last century. Taking into account the fact that my father was engaged in photography (though still b&w). I have been photographing and printing photos since I was 6 years old.

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In short, a lot has accumulated.

My old scanner does not support this feature. I took a Mustek scanner for testing - BearPaw 2448TA Plus.
When scanning with a resolution of 1200 dpi, everything is fine, but the speed is not satisfactory; it takes 10 minutes to process 4 negatives, not counting the framing time. Moreover, I am not satisfied with the quality and resolution.
When scanning from high resolution different quirks appear, sometimes black photos, sometimes white, sometimes one of the RGB components. Moreover, there are no patterns (rebooting programs and drivers, memory occupancy, etc.)!

Has anyone encountered this problem?

Ready to buy new scanner for scanning negatives (only negatives are possible - specialized).
Maybe someone works on this profile in photo laboratories.

Due to your financial situation, please do not offer photo scanners over $300.

With third-party iPhone apps you can scan and create your own QR codes

09.14.17 at 22:03

The well-known pixel square was born in 1994 in Japan, when it became clear that the barcode technologies existing at that time could not accommodate the required amount of data and were simply outdated.

QR codes were created by Denso-Wave and have gained immense popularity around the world due to several important factors:

The QR code does not require line scanning. Thanks to the presence of large control squares in the corners, the QR code scanner can understand the orientation of the code in space and, by adjusting the perspective, read the data. Due to this, QR code scanning can be done at an angle.

The QR code is quite easy to recognize, so scanning it does not require precise technology or the mandatory use of lasers, almost any camera mobile phone capable of reading data.

QR code allows you to store up to 7089 digital characters, 4296 letters, 2953 bytes binary information, as well as 1817 kanji characters.

Application

Due to the fact that you can embed any information into a QR code iPhone owner can take a photo of the code and using special application decode data. QR codes are often used to store data that can be easily and quickly transferred from stickers, posters, paper, such as addresses, phone numbers, websites, product data.

In addition, many modern museums use QR codes to store data about their exhibits, although now this technology will be gradually replaced. But the difference between QR codes and iBeacon is that the data encoded in a QR code can be read from long distance, while iBeacon requires personal presence within the beacon's coverage area.

How to Scan QR Codes on iPhone

On this moment iOS doesn't have a built-in QR code decoding feature, but it's not big problem, since there are a ton of apps that allow you to both scan QR codes on your iPhone and create your own.

The free Scanvi app allows you to download both barcodes and QR codes. Scanning occurs very quickly; after launching the application, you need to point the camera at the QR code. If the code contains a website, Scanvi will open it in the built-in browser or display text embedded in the code. All previously scanned codes are stored in the application memory, so they can be accessed later. All previously scanned data can be sent to yourself or friends via e-mail or iMessage.

In order to create your own QR codes, use the QR App application, it can also scan, but unlike previous application does not save your finds in a list. The QR App is also compatible with advanced iOS 8, thanks to which you can generate your QR code from the window of any text application.

For example, open a notepad, create text, click the share button, in the window that appears, next to the copy and print functions, click on the More button and enable the QR App extension.

Update: WITH the advent of iOS 11 Now you can simply take a photo of the QR code regular application camera. But before that you need to go to iOS settings> Camera > and enable QR code scanning.

For your information. The process of digitizing photographic film using digital camera It's called a reshoot.

The essence of reshooting is to photograph film on a white background and correct the resulting digital image using special programs.

For such digitization, many models of photographic equipment today are sold with a special lens attachment, which already has a white background.

If your camera does not have such an attachment, you can make it yourself, using available materials. To do this, you will need a cylinder with a cavity inside, which is slightly larger than the diameter of the lens (for example, a cylindrical can of fish food, tea, or another). You need to attach a platform (a piece of thick cardboard or plastic) to the cylinder on one side, having previously cut a hole on it for the frame.

With the other side we put our cylinder on the camera lens.

The camera on a tripod with a homemade attachment must be placed in front of the light source. The best option- This is a liquid crystal monitor of a computer or laptop. White background is created by opening a new document in Adobe Photoshop and expanding it to full screen.

IMPORTANT. It is better to reshoot film in complete darkness, turning off everything additional sources light, except for the main one - the monitor.

The photographic film must be installed at a certain distance from the monitor (up to 15 cm) so that a wave-like glow does not appear from the screen, but at the same time the brightness of the screen does not weaken. Next, turn off the light and re-shoot the film with a digital camera.

Digitizing film without an attachment

Complete digitization of photographic film with your own hands is possible without purchasing a special attachment for the camera lens.

To do this we will need a camera, tripods and computer monitor. We fix the camera on one tripod, and on the other - a device with which we fix the film or slide. You can use frames from photo enlargers or projectors for this.

If they are not available, then you can make the following design.

We take two glasses from photo frames and cover their edges with white self-adhesive tape to protect them from sharp corners and thicken the structure. We apply two glasses to each other, and glue them together with tape on top and bottom. We insert the film into the resulting gap between the glasses. Next, we place this structure parallel to the monitor, you can secure it with available materials, for example, stacks of books on both sides, turn off the light and start filming.

The resulting image is processed using inversion ( Ctrl keys+i), adjustment layers, channels (blue, green, red Ctrl+m) and manual correction with using Adobe Photoshop or other graphics editor.

As you can see, this method of transferring a film image to a digital one is also quite affordable and doable at home, so it’s up to you to decide how to digitize photographic film. Scanning, camera or darkroom - the choice is yours. The main thing is that the result meets expectations and brings pleasure from the images received and viewed.