scan

An image that was scanned from a physical medium such as a poster, artbook, or magazine.

When uploading a scan you didn't make yourself, the source should be left as the site where you obtained the scan from, not the title of the magazine or book. When uploading a scan you made yourself, tag it as self-scan.

See photo (medium) for when the image is photographed rather than scanned. This is common when an artist using traditional media posts a photo of their own work.

See fake scan for when an image is merely made to look like a scan by drawing techniques.

Examples

Related tags

Artifacts

• binding discoloration
• bleed through
• color halftone
• color issue
• crease
• cropped
• scan artifacts
• scan dust

Edits

• cleaned
• detexted
• fixed
• stitched
• third-party edit
• magazine request

Sources

• artbook
• magazine scan
• novel illustration
• official art
• poster (medium)
• production art
• covers, including
• album cover
• cd (source)
• video game cover
• dvd cover
• blu-ray cover
• magazine cover

See also

• fake scan
• self-scan
• photo (medium)

The following tags implicate this tag: crease, magazine_scan, scan_artifacts, and self-scan (learn more).