What scanner settings are best for archiving old family photos?
Acer_Negunndo asked:
I want to scan and archive a bunch of old photos, and save them on CDs. I want to use photoshop to do some basic editing such as cropping, adjusting contrast, and saving them at a manageable file size.
I want to scan and archive a bunch of old photos, and save them on CDs. I want to use photoshop to do some basic editing such as cropping, adjusting contrast, and saving them at a manageable file size.
I’m a little unclear about the relationship between things like pixels, actual image size, resolution and file size. After editing each photo, I think I’d like to end up with two images– one that could be as big as 1000kb for archival purposes, and another saved at about 200kb for convenient e-mailing, etc.
My questions: What scanner settings (as far as size, pixels, etc.) should I use in order to avoid losing too much image information in the editing and saving process? Is it best to scan and edit as a tiff and then save as a jpeg? Should I save the larger of the two files as a tiff? Should I use the “save for web” function? What settings are best for the final saved images in terms of actual image size, resolution, dpi, pixels, etc.? Thanks for your advice!
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Funny Videos
If you’re gonna have them pinted, then 300dpi will do. That may take up a lot of disk space, but if you’re gonna archive them, you might as well make them worth something when you want to retrive ‘em. Disks are cheap…memories ain’t.
To get the most out of your disk and make ‘em look good on-screen….then go for 72dpi.
hope it helps
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Aid List
If the print is 4×6 or bigger try 300 dpi, but if it is smaller say .. wallet size I do recomend 600 dpi, if it is even smaller, then 1200 dpi; once they are in the monitor make them all 300 with the wright dimensions that you want to put on the CD, or 72 JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) for the web.
To your CD save as tiff (Tagged Information File Format), or PSD (PhotoShop Document)
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If it’s for archival purposes, the best (& most sensible!) thing to do is to scan at the highest possible quality. Blank media (CDs & DVDs) don’t even cost too much, & it’s definitely worth keep the originals at the highest quality.
In fact, I’d go a step further & say that you should always have a copy of each CD/DVD you have images on, just in case… And preferably, don’t keep the 2 CDs together. Keep one at work & one at home, or two in two different places at home…