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scanning yearbook picture
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| Tim923 2006-09-24, 6:15 pm |
| What settings should I use when scanning a picture on a page of a
yearbook?
Dots per inch?
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| Tim923 wrote:
> What settings should I use when scanning a picture on a page of a
> yearbook?
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> Dots per inch?
at a setting which reduces the screen used in the printing of the year book.
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| Kingdom 2006-09-24, 6:15 pm |
| Tim923 <tws0923@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> What settings should I use when scanning a picture on a page of a
> yearbook?
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> Dots per inch?
try 600 and resize in photoshop
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| Tim923 2006-09-24, 6:15 pm |
| >try 600 and resize in photoshop
There is a descreen option. I could scan at high res and resize down.
Something else I wondered. Is it best to resize by powers of 1/2?
With 50%, I see how each adjacent 4 pixels are neatly combined into 1.
And the same with 25%. Maybe it doesn't make much difference when
there are lots of pixels involved, but what happens when a smaller pic
(maybe 100pixels x 100pixels, or 200x200) is resized to some arbitrary
percentage, mayb 83% or 57%. Maybe I should try this to see how
natural it looks.
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| Mike Russell 2006-09-24, 6:15 pm |
| The big headache with yearbook pictures is the halftone dots.
The best solution I've found is to scan at a fairly high resolution - 300 to
600 pixels per inch, then use the freeware FFT plugin to remove the dots
while preserving detail reasonably well. Once you have a good image, resize
to your pixel dimensions if necessary.
Here's an article I did some time ago that shows how to do this. Scroll
down to the example with the picture of the wrench to see what this method
will do. Later there is a discussion of how to use this plugin in Elements
as well as Photoshop.
http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/index.php?topic=62.0
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| Tim923 2006-09-24, 6:15 pm |
| "Mike Russell" wrote:
>The big headache with yearbook pictures is the halftone dots.
These are B&W yearbook photos on the paper I'm interested in, and not
color. I don't know if that makes a difference?
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| Mike Russell 2006-09-24, 6:15 pm |
| "Tim923" <tws0923@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Mike Russell" wrote:
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> These are B&W yearbook photos on the paper I'm interested in, and not
> color. I don't know if that makes a difference?
The FFT method will work with either color or B&W. The example uses a B&W
image.
One thing to notice is the writing on the handle of the wrench is clearer
after the dots have been removed. AFAIK, retaining or even slightly
clarifying detail is unique to using an FFT operation to remove the dots.
<http://www.curvemeister.com/forum/i...2.msg382#msg382>
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