Scanning comics

[Flaming_Telepath]

I'm not very good with technology, but this was scanned at 200dpi and not resized when saving. File size is almost 2 megs and Photobucket automatically resizes it to this...

 

 

 

[Boozad]

This is scanned in at 300dpi and I just resized the height to 800 pixels and kept the aspect ratio. Uploading to Photobucket gives you this.

 

[Boozad]

And this is a 300dpi scan left full size. Click to see the full size image.

 

 

[General Zod]

Get and use this: http://www.irfanview.com/

 

Larry

 

 

Free and very easy to use. Recommended.

[Seadevils]

When I was scanning books among other items I always scan at 300dpi..then re-size in Photoshop. That way I preserve a HG file copy and a copy suitable for the net.

 

Now I shoot everything with a digital SLR mounted on professional copystand with remote shutter release....much faster and too me...represents the book and conditon much better...my

[mschmidt]

I'm not very good with technology, but this was scanned at 200dpi and not resized when saving. File size is almost 2 megs and Photobucket automatically resizes it to this...

 

 

 

 

The main problem with using Photobucket's resize function (instead of cropping, resizing & saving it yourself) is that you have no real control over the quality nor the file size of the finished image. This image, for instance, is about 500kb which I personally consider too big for a sales thread (if you had 10 images like this on a page, that's a pretty hefty 5MB download for the viewer).

 

But, then again, if you aren't using Photoshop, it's the easiest alternative.

[Boozad]

I'm not very good with technology, but this was scanned at 200dpi and not resized when saving. File size is almost 2 megs and Photobucket automatically resizes it to this...

 

 

 

 

The main problem with using Photobucket's resize function (instead of cropping, resizing & saving it yourself) is that you have no real control over the quality nor the file size of the finished image. This image, for instance, is about 500kb which I personally consider too big for a sales thread (if you had 10 images like this on a page, that's a pretty hefty 5MB download for the viewer).

 

But, then again, if you aren't using Photoshop, it's the easiest alternative.

 

The good thing about Photobucket for multiple listings in a sales thread is the clickable thumbnails, so that's one way round it for people who haven't got access to photo editing software.

[str8rcn]

 

Now I shoot everything with a digital SLR mounted on professional copystand with remote shutter release....much faster and too me...represents the book and conditon much better...my

 

Can I see an example of this?