scanning photos question

[jim1]

You will also need to reduce the physical size.732 x 1232 looks a bit big.
When you have done as Steven says and save as a jpeg look at the image size again,you need to get this under 500kb. as this is the largest filesize allowed on here.Just keep reducing the overall size,at 300dpi you should get away with H = 900.You probably can't do this with your scanner,you will need to use your photo editing software.

jim

[Stella77]

Hi 

Thank you all so much for your help with my problems.

It is a work in progress at the moment, I don't think I'm relating what I'm doing with what I'm reading in the instructions    but I will have to wait till either later in the week or next weekend, when I can get back to use the scanner, to try again to get it posted.

Hopefully I will get this done this 'century'     or at least before the photo fades away.........

In the meantime, I will keep practicing with a picture I have on my computer, as the scanner is with another computer...

It's like reseaching family history, I will never giveup even if I hit a brickwall... and I have found a few of them.

Catch up soon, hopefully with a picture 
Stella

[dennford]

Ok can I just add please scan at a high resolution, resize not compress and always, always scan in color

 Irene

If you scan at a high resolution and then resize you will reduce the resolution - so why scan at a high resolution in the first place?

Now my question is, do you intend printing the results? and will you print at the original size?

If so, then scan at 300 dpi (adequate for printing) and compress using jpg compression - you may be surprised how much you can reduce a file size before the photo' shows signs of degradation.

I once did a test to prove the fact. Using the a pic' 444pixels by 650pixels I first saved it as a jpg at a compression of 7 resulting in a file just over 100kb, I then saved it at a compression of 2 and it is still acceptable at 57kb therefore only saving a few more kb. Finally I tried by resizing - reducing the pixel size to 326 x 222 (quarter of the original size) but didn't use any jpeg compression, this time I ended up with a size of 121 kb - the biggest file size yet the smallest picture. Also consider that the reduced pixel size made the picture unacceptable.

Denn