Re: OT: Scanning Pictures
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 07:39:59AM -0700, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 10:28:58AM -0400, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> > But I do need to create an online album of some sort. My question is, which
> > are the best settings for me to upload my images in? Like what size should
> > they be, at what dpi and depth, etc ? ( I just need to scan in a lot of
> > normal pictures you'd get from a "advantix" camera)
>
> Most recent monitor are 0.25mm pitch = 100 dpi these days. So it can be
> 100 dpi if it should apear in same size as originals. Traditionally,
> screens are 72 dpi, so I tends to scan at 72 dpi for web.
>
> Make sure to convert them into jpeg files to make image files small.
> 50KB means 10 second modem download. jpeg compression is lossy
> complession and can reduce file size drastically when larger loss are
> allowed. GIMP gives easy GUI manupuration of images. imagemagik is CLI
> image manupilator.
>
> Good luck ;-)
>
> PS: Just do not scan at 300dpi !
>
For the web, 72-100 dpi is perfect. For printing, 300+ dpi is better.
Mike
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