Chris,
Thanks for taking the time to explain your procedure. Little by little
the fog is beginning to lift. :)
Richard
--- Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Richard
>
> I have always scanned at the highest resolution to keep, fiddle with
> ("improve") and for printing.
>
> I use Photoshop or Graphic Converter (Mac only I believe) to reduce
> the
> images in size, with resampling "Bicubic", to 600 or 700 pixels on
> its
> longest dimension for the web (I don't bother with the "Save for the
> Web" option).
>
> Resolution does not matter if you are sizing in pixels (thanks to Tom
>
> Scales for pointing that out about 3 years ago).
>
> For printing images, I size the image in inches to just smaller than
> the paper's size
, reducing the resolution to a minimum of 300ppi,
> sometimes leaving it at 600. I always have to reduce the ppi so as
> to
> avoid trying to get more out of an image that was scanned in.
>
> In the printer's sofware, I always use at least 720dpi (let's take
> that
> as droplets of ink per inch to distinguish printing from scanning),
> normally 1440 for assured quality (probably only in my head). I use
> Colorsync for making the colour right.
>
> To keep images with the smallest use of disk space I use compressed
> TIF
> (LZW). I would use JPEG 2000, but Photoshop CS takes 3 years per
> image
> file of 80Mb to get around to the save dialogue box for .jp2k.
>
> I am sure that others have their own ways of working, but these modus
>
> operandi work for me.
>
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