Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch writes: > At 9:05 AM -0500 12/10/99, Tina Manley wrote: > > > >I'm not using these large files for printing or pre-press - only for > >storage as Genuine Fractals. I figured if I store them at the > >highest possible resolution, I can convert them to whatever size I > >need when I need them. Is this not true? I would like to scan the > >photos one > > Nope, there may be more detail in the shadows from multi-scanning, > but the highest resolution of the scanner is the best it can actually > do. Any software interpolation, no matter what buzz word they use, is > going to be non-image data. It's likely that the resolution of the file is staying the same (the number of pixels in the image), but that the files are larger because there is more information stored per pixel. g.