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annaandchester
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Re: My Granny
« Reply #15 on: Saturday 11 March 06 13:23 GMT (UK) »

The dpi on my scanner goes up to 19200 - will that be too big?

Anna x


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Re: My Granny
« Reply #16 on: Saturday 11 March 06 13:31 GMT (UK) »

I have done it at 1200 dpi and it is 390kb and at 4800 dpi it is 2.51 MB

Is it better to enlarge the smaller one or shrink the bigger one?

Anna x

PS Thank you for all your patience with me over this - I have only had the scanner since Jan and I still dont know what it does really!


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Re: My Granny
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 11 March 06 13:48 GMT (UK) »

try the 1200, I would imagine that the higher res' could possibly be interpolated, either way the 1200 would be as big a manification as the pic' can go.
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Re: My Granny
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 11 March 06 13:50 GMT (UK) »

Hi Anna

Bigger is always best! Use the 2.51 mb one.

The bigger the original scan the more you can enlarge it - just ensure that you trade resolution for 'physical' size. ie increase height/width while reducing resolution.

People often make the mistake of simply forcing up the file size to make a picture bigger, but they are simply stretching the pixels and so effectively reduce the quality.

When saving as a JPEG, try not to use a low quality setting to make a file smaller, as this is achieved by throwing away information - wasting all the effort made in the scanning process.

Oh, and always scan in colour (RGB) even for black and white pics. Again, this will contain more digital info to play with.

Have fun Grin

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:03 GMT (UK) »

This is the picture at 1200 dpi.
Scanned in colour and at 390 KB

Anna x

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:07 GMT (UK) »

This is the 4200 dpi scanned in colour and shrunk to 465 KB

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #21 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:08 GMT (UK) »

Why is the second picture smaller in size than the first but bigger KB?

Please be gentle with me if this is a stupid question

Anna x

PS Am I meant to see the difference in the pictures with their different dpi cos I dont!

PPS I really do thank you both for all your information and support here - I am learning I promise!


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Re: My Granny
« Reply #22 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:17 GMT (UK) »

Hi Anna,
Sorry, didn't notice there was a page 2.
Anyway here's another.
Tomkin

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #23 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:21 GMT (UK) »

That is great Tomkin - I really like the way you have brought out her features - with the originall so faded I wondered whether I would ever see her again.

Anna x

PS There is only a page 2 as I am a ninny and dont know my dpi from mfi and my KB from my KM!!!!


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Re: My Granny
« Reply #24 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:29 GMT (UK) »

What a great word 'ninny' is Wink

. Haven't heard it for years Grin

Without going around in technical circles, either scan will be fine to work with. As long as you've managed to take a tiny picture and make a decent size scan from it you're on the right road!

I don't have time at the moment, but if no-one else does it, I'll have another go later.

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 11 March 06 14:39 GMT (UK) »

Hi Anna,
That makes two of us. I'm still on
Bushels and Pecks. I missed pge2 because I've left my websites on
large font and I'm too idle to change it. i.e. one click with a mouse
button, how idle is that.
Tomkin


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Re: My Granny
« Reply #26 on: Saturday 11 March 06 15:34 GMT (UK) »

Hi Anna,
Had to try a little experiment. Didn't work but a crude
colour photo resulted. hope you like it.
Tomkin

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #27 on: Saturday 11 March 06 16:47 GMT (UK) »

Gosh - she looks stunning - What a fantastic result!

I cannot believe that a barely visible picture no bigger that a stamp could result in that kind of quality picture.

You have made my day!!!

Anna x


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Re: My Granny
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 12 March 06 00:49 GMT (UK) »

Another go

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Re: My Granny
« Reply #29 on: Sunday 12 March 06 01:22 GMT (UK) »

Hi Anna,
Another trial. This time it worked.
Tomkin

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