Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Scan at the highest resolution and save as uncompressed TIFF file. This is your archive. From that you can work in Photoshop to make whatever manipulations you need and save the result as a PSD file. For web purposes, downsample to something manageable and save a JPG file. But the initial scan should always be the best your scanner can provide, i.e. 4000 ppi. Nathan Darrell Wood wrote: > I have just gone into the realms of scanning my Leica 35mm slides and > negatives. I am using a Nikon Coolscan 4000. > > What resolution would you suggest I scan for the following? > > 1. Archiving > 2. Printing > 3. Web > A) Initial Small image > B) Double clicked full size image > > Do you also have any guidelines for deciding which format to scan also > (JPEG,TIFF,JPEG 2000 etc?) > > Regards > > Darrell > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html