Scan now work on later

[Vesta]

Hi All,
We are planning a 50th anniversary celebration for our church and I am in the process of beginning to scan old pictures. I have been scanning at 600 . How don't have time to work on them now. My plan is to get the pictures scanned , copied to cd then and then load them onto my new laptop to work on them for print and use in a slide presentation. I need to tell others what to scan at also. Also what is the best proceedure for correcting this I don't have a lot of time but still what to put some effort into them. I was using muvee from Microsoft that came with my new laptop but am getting ready to buy PSE5 and put that on my laptop. Is the slide presentation in PSE5 good. I have PSE4 on mu desktop with plugins that I have added but if their is a particular plugin that you recommend I will get it and put it on PSE 5.


Vesta

[Cmcburnett]

Vesta, there have been several threads on scanning lately, you may want to check it out. Someone mentioned scanning in at 300 DPI, Color Tif and 24 Bit. I tried it and it works pretty good. I had been saving my scanned pic's as JPEG. Also, do you know in Elements you can scan several pictures at a time and have Elments divide them for you, it works great. You just have to make sure you have a space between pic's. Good luck.

[Vesta]

Thanks Charlotte,

I have been scanning at 600 because some of them or so small and I may want to print them later for display don't want to keep the orginals as they are so valueable to the owners. but I wasn't sure what to save them in. I will copy them on to a cd and remove them from my desk top because of the large files.

Vesta

[Cmcburnett]

Vesta, I have been doing the same thing. Its a lot of work, but fun. I scanned a very small school pic yesterday of my mom from 1929 at 300 DPI and when I printed it printed on 5x7 and looked great. Good luck.

[Codebreaker]

Vesta....

The key thing to know is what you intend to do with the scanned images. If you intend to print, then scanning at 300PPI will allow you to print at 1:1. If you want bigger prints than 1:1 then you need higher resolution. Every time you double the print width or height double the scanning resolution.

Colin

[Wendy]

Hi ...

With old images:

If they are snapshots (usually low resolution) then I scan at 300
Studio portraits, professional photos, glass plate photos etc I scan at 600.

If in doubt scan high rather than low :)

Wendy

[Cmcburnett]

Wendy, thank you. I agree with you. For a minute I thought maybe I was scanning in the wrong DPI.