Scanning Oversized Images

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Gabe_Salzman
Oct 10, 2005
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Adobe Photoshop CS2; Windows XP SP2; 1 GB RAM; 75 GB Disk. I’m new to this and would appreciate help steering me in the right direction.

My problem is this. I have a large format scanner (Epson 10000XL, 2400×4800 dpi, 48 bit color, 12×17" document size), but need to scan original art work that is larger, so I need to scan it in segments. I’m scanning using Photoshop CS2 with the plug in for the scanner.

My question is: Can I use Photoshop CS2 to merge the segments into one seamless document, for subsequent printing on a high resolution wide format printer (Epson Stylus Pro 10600)? What tools can I use to align and fit together the segments.

It seems like working with layers might be the way to do this, but I’m not sure how to do this. I can’t find any reference to this in the Adobe documentation.

MacBook Pro 16” Mockups 🔥

– in 4 materials (clay versions included)

– 12 scenes

– 48 MacBook Pro 16″ mockups

– 6000 x 4500 px

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Michael_D_Sullivan
Oct 10, 2005
File > Automate > Photomerge is how to do this within Photoshop. There may be better tools for your purpose, however. Check out PTgui and PTassembler.
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Art Campbell
Oct 10, 2005
Well, the short answer is "yes," you can do it.

Each scan will probably be into a separate file. Open the component files; create a new file the finished size of the artwork; then in each component, Select All (Ctrl+A), Copy, and paste into the target file.

Each component automatically goes to its own layer, which can be positioned independently.

If you were going to do a lot of this kind of work though, as you would if you had a studio full of paintings… I’d think about having a shop that has a large flatbed scanner do the work, unless you have a fair amount of time on your hands. A few would be managable, I think, but producing a lot of them would get old pretty quickly, I think.

Unless you already have an industrial strength computer with lots of RAM and hard drive space, you’re going to be looking at some resource issues too, I think, especially if you are scanning at really high rez and bit depth.

Cheers,
Art
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Gabe_Salzman
Oct 11, 2005
Art, Michael

Thank you both very much. I think this will let me get there.

Gabe Salzman
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Burton_Ogden
Oct 12, 2005
Gabe,

PanaVue’s Image Assembler <http://www.panavue.com/index.htm> is a third party program with a lot of capability in this area.

— Burton — (not associated with any vendor mentioned)

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