First try at a picture (P.38)
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Herr Walther
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Devin, I usually try to get the size on my scanner program to show around 250 to 300Kb on the preview for a good size picture to post.
I've never measured in pixel size before.
I've never measured in pixel size before.
Actually, the size on the scanner that I'd shoot for is around 600-800k. Remember, this is the uncompressed size, and it'll be a much smaller JPG file. I also do a little color correction and sharpening on the finished image before posting. I haven't used a scanner for my pictures in some time, since I have a digital camera. 
Herr Walther
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My problem is with the software that came with my scanner, I think. maybe I've been doing something wrong for the past four years and don't know it.
After scanning for a final image, the images look normal size after
viewing them in Pagemanager.
If I save them in My Documents and then view them, they are huge! Going right off of the page. I don't dare try and e-mail something this size. It would take hours at 56K baud.
I wish I had software that would give me an accurate size image during the preview and final scan.
I end up reducing the size for scan from 100% to usually 14-16%
of actual size to get a normal size image.
Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
After scanning for a final image, the images look normal size after
viewing them in Pagemanager.
If I save them in My Documents and then view them, they are huge! Going right off of the page. I don't dare try and e-mail something this size. It would take hours at 56K baud.
I wish I had software that would give me an accurate size image during the preview and final scan.
I end up reducing the size for scan from 100% to usually 14-16%
of actual size to get a normal size image.
Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated.
Herr Walther,
What format are you saving them in? I always save in JPEG format for the web, since they're compressed. Many scanner drivers bring them in as TIFF or BMP files, they're not compressed and indeed huge. A 512x384 resolution image should be in the 20-40 kilobyte range in a JPEG file, no problem for even fairly slow connections. However, a 16m color image at 512x384 in BMP is 589,824 bytes, and slow connections will choke on that!
As far as the resolution, I suspect that Pagemanager (whatever that is) autosizes them for viewing. I've scanned thing with my scanner that were over 100 megabytes when they were scanned! A full 8x11 page scanned at 600x600 DPI and 16 million colors will end up being a 90 megabyte TIF or BMP file, and even in JPG it'll be huge!
What format are you saving them in? I always save in JPEG format for the web, since they're compressed. Many scanner drivers bring them in as TIFF or BMP files, they're not compressed and indeed huge. A 512x384 resolution image should be in the 20-40 kilobyte range in a JPEG file, no problem for even fairly slow connections. However, a 16m color image at 512x384 in BMP is 589,824 bytes, and slow connections will choke on that!
As far as the resolution, I suspect that Pagemanager (whatever that is) autosizes them for viewing. I've scanned thing with my scanner that were over 100 megabytes when they were scanned! A full 8x11 page scanned at 600x600 DPI and 16 million colors will end up being a 90 megabyte TIF or BMP file, and even in JPG it'll be huge!