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Originally Posted by Dekoda
The scanner's light bulb doesn't have the same uniform brightness across it. That means that one side of the bulb will be brighter than the other side. If you were to simply scan one part of the picture, then slide the picture over to scan the rest of it, the two halves of the picture won't match up in brightness when you try to stitch it together.
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That's very useful information Dekoda. I never knew this.. However, by coincidence I have always done my double page scanning the way you advised. I just like to put the mag in the same corner, whether its the left or right page.
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Originally Posted by Dekoda
. The better way to save a jpeg is with a program that uses the 1 to 100 jpeg settings. With a program like that, I use a setting of 85. This is called the "Q" or quality.
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Originally Posted by dohupa
A 3Meg file  at this random resolution I've picked editing the bmp file with IrfanView.  |
I always save my initial scans as bitmaps. When all scanning and necessary stitching is done, I batch convert using Irfanview, using a compression level of 80.
dohupa, compressing your Seka pic this way reduced it to 811KB.
And yes, it sure looks good enoug.