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Can you add scans yourself for books ?

Started by Old Fashion PB and J,

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PokerKid

PokerKid

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120KB or less.

 

I really would like to see this limit upped to somewhere around 200, 240. I have to degrade my scans and they come out a little fuzzy in order to meet this limit with a trade off of seeing the book in larger detail.

 

As much as the adjustment to larger files sizes, I would like to see the program allow larger scans adjusted down to 120k automatically when uploaded. I say this strictly as a lazy person who won't bother to resize my photos.

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General Zod

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instead of adjusting the resolution I resize the image down ( I use 700 pixels high for all of my pics) and I think they display well without being too small.

 

 

That is what I meant. But my scanner must be doing too much dpi-wise, because even at 640x400, it's well over the imposed memory limit. So I resize it and then save it at a degraded percentage (usually around 55%) in order to get just under the limit.

 

120KB or less.

 

I really would like to see this limit upped to somewhere around 200, 240. I have to degrade my scans and they come out a little fuzzy in order to meet this limit with a trade off of seeing the book in larger detail.

 

As much as the adjustment to larger files sizes, I would like to see the program allow larger scans adjusted down to 120k automatically when uploaded. I say this strictly as a lazy person who won't bother to resize my photos.

 

That is what I love about Photobucket. I put in my original scans untouched and it resizes it automatically for me without the look of nasty compression. However, Photobucket doesn't have quite as small a limit as the Registry does.

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mschmidt

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120KB or less.

 

I really would like to see this limit upped to somewhere around 200, 240. I have to degrade my scans and they come out a little fuzzy in order to meet this limit with a trade off of seeing the book in larger detail.

 

I'd like to see the limit upped to 200-220kb as well ... I currently resize my scans to a width of 550px, and save them as close to the 120kb file limit as possible. Which usually means a JPG compression ratio of 50% or less - depending on the complexity of the image. Not too happy with that - going from a 70-60% JPG to a 50% JPG makes a noticeable difference in image quality.

 

Let me show you what I mean ...

 

Here's a scan, resized to a width of 550px, saved as a 70% JPG which results in a filesize of 216kb:

 

filesize_example1.jpg

 

 

Here's the same scan, resized to a width of 550px, saved as a 40% JPG which results in a filesize of 107kb:

 

filesize_example2.jpg

 

If you open the two images in tabs, and compare them side-by-side, the difference is rather noticeable.

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Boozad

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I got fed up of constantly resizing and saving in different file sizes to find a happy medium. It's quick to do as I use Adobe CS2, but I was ending up with multiple copies of the same image and forgetting which was which doh!

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