Re: COMP:Scanning question
My scanner has a mind of its own and scans at 150 dpi. I edit the image by
first cropping, then changing the resolution to 72 and finally compressing
with jpeg. I use 5 x 7 prints for my commercial photo albums. This usually
reduces the size of the emailed file to 10 to 20 kb from an initial scan of
400+ kb. If you are using a smaller photo size then don't reduce the
resolution as much. The jpeg compression is where you gain the biggest
reduction of file size. The reduction in resolution also helps significantly
as file size is area dependent.
Hope this helps. If you have any more questions, feel free to contact me
directly.
Harold Peters
Beautiful View Iris Garden
El Dorado Hills, CA USDA zone 9
harold@directcon.net www.beautiful-view-iris.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Darlington <chris.darlington@sympatico.ca>
To: <iris-photos@onelist.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: [iris-photos] COMP:Scanning question
> Hi iris fans,
>
> I have a question for the anyone who is scanning their photos to send to
> the list or for web pages. Question is , what is a good DPI to scan
> photos so that they'll look resonably sharp without taking up to much
> memory . When I scan at 75 DPI which is supposedly all one needs for
> internet purposes , my photos look unexceptably soft . When I used 300
> DPI this afternoon to scan a photo , the computer warned me that it was
> running out of disc space. I'm sure people would be irritated with me
> if I sent a 5 mb attached photo to the list. Maybe there is something
> I'm doing wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance for setting me straight.
> Chris Darlington
>
>
>
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