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prince george, bc
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Posted - 07/08/2005 : 2:41 PM
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hi there, i work as a provincial bear smart coordinator in prince george, and we're creating a new website. i put out a request in a local paper for pictures of bears (blacks/grizzlies) taken locally that we could post on our site. the response has been great. here's the problem. lots of the pictures are actual photographs. i bought a printer/scanner after christmas, but have only used it a couple times. the times i have scanned photos into my computer, they turn out so damn huge that i can't really do anything with them. for a 4x6 photo, what resolution should i be scanning the pictures in at for best quality, so the pics don't look grainy? my screen resolution is 1024x 768. i would like to keep the photos at about 4x6" for the website, so would i scan them at 400 x 600dpi? any help would be much appreciated by our program!!
erik
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Chilliwack, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/08/2005 : 2:53 PM
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| Scan them at 100 DPI resolution and your pics should turn out at a decent resolution for webpages. The DPI setting is actually the quality of the scan,while the size of the digital image is measured in pixels: 1024 x 768 is an example of the size of an image in pixels, which is a good size of a digital image for a webpage. |
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Tumbler Ridge, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/11/2005 : 12:32 PM
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What BG said, but scan them at 100DPI at100%; if you scan them at a target resolution of 100 dpi, but then scale them up to 20X30...well. I mention this because some scanning software will allow you to change both the resolution and the output size.
If you scan them at 400X600, the images will be 4X6 on some monitors and about 5X7 on others, as some monitors have a target resolution of 72dpi.
Save as jpgs, not gifs. You may want to save a smaller thumbnail of the image so that people can click on it (like you do here at club tread). This saves bandwidth, and pages load faster, which people care about. I'll wait weeks for books to come in to the library for me, but if a website takes more than 10 seconds to load, I'ma outathere.
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Scanning for Dummies???
