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Dear Group,
I am a first timer here and hope this is on topic enough.
I will be doing a work assignment for a high-end landscape designer, scanning thousands of slides of various landscapes and gardens and storing and sorting them with ThumbsDB. The main purposes are to have them easily available for potential clients to see, to use at public lectures and then possibly to use some of them for print publication.
So, quality has to be good, but I suppose not in the hundreds of megs for most purposes except perhaps print.
Questions:
Can anyone recommend a good scanner with an auto feeder, or tell me what specs are needed (bit depth, resolution levels,etc) for such a task?
How large would a color image file be if it were to be used for a really nice coffee table book on landscape design? (I assume a few hundred K or a meg is good enough to show on a lap top or to project.)
Is JPG good enough, or do we have to scan and store the file in an enormous form (Tiff etc.)?
Are the auto clean up functions some scanners have good, or should we still do it one at a time in Photoshop?
Thanks much,
Michael
I am a first timer here and hope this is on topic enough.
I will be doing a work assignment for a high-end landscape designer, scanning thousands of slides of various landscapes and gardens and storing and sorting them with ThumbsDB. The main purposes are to have them easily available for potential clients to see, to use at public lectures and then possibly to use some of them for print publication.
So, quality has to be good, but I suppose not in the hundreds of megs for most purposes except perhaps print.
Questions:
Can anyone recommend a good scanner with an auto feeder, or tell me what specs are needed (bit depth, resolution levels,etc) for such a task?
How large would a color image file be if it were to be used for a really nice coffee table book on landscape design? (I assume a few hundred K or a meg is good enough to show on a lap top or to project.)
Is JPG good enough, or do we have to scan and store the file in an enormous form (Tiff etc.)?
Are the auto clean up functions some scanners have good, or should we still do it one at a time in Photoshop?
Thanks much,
Michael
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