Alaskaairlines From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2054 posts, RR: 17 Posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1182 times:
Hello guys. I am still playing around with my new Nikon coolscan 4000 ED. In order to get the highest quality image should I save the scanned files as .tif, and then convert to .jpg in PS6? How much would that take up the quality of the images?
Alaskaairlines From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2054 posts, RR: 17 Reply 1, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 9 hours ago) and read 1152 times:
Sorry for the typo's, its been a long day..........
Cfalk From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 3, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 2 days 6 hours ago) and read 1140 times:
I have that scanner. Nowadays, I scan at about 2000 dpi for most shots, and save as TIF. I make copies of the original scans onto CDROM, and then crop, reduce, sharpen, etc. until I get an uploadable-quality shot. Then, at the very last step, do I convert the file to JPG.
Sometimes I forget the last step, and find myself twiddling my thumbs as I wait for a 2 MB TIF file to upload before getting an error message .
Alaskaairlines From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2054 posts, RR: 17 Reply 4, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 1125 times:
Charles do you use PS? I can't remember. Thanks for the advise, also, how do I set the dpi to 2000 or better on the scanner?
Fotodj From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 87 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 1115 times:
Ckw ,could you tell me what file size you have after converting in .jpg(12 level). I want to find the optimum size to download without waiting too long and having acceptable results.
Alaskaairlines From United States of America, joined Jan 2002, 2054 posts, RR: 17 Reply 8, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1102 times:
Charles, what size is the file when you are done scanning? In the screen shot you e-mailed me it said like 21.8 MB! Is that the size you really scan in? 1024x768 is like 2.25 MB.
Also, in the resolution section, Do I just ype in 1000, 2000 and so on in the window to improve scanning?
Ckw From UK - England, joined Aug 2010, 530 posts, RR: 18 Reply 9, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 1 day 7 hours ago) and read 1103 times:
Fotodj - size varies according to the image, but I would expect to get files of around 500-600k saving at quality level 12. If you are worried about downloads from A.net, keep in mind that A.net does it's own file compression after you upload the image ... if you do any compression in advance, there will inevitably be a loss of quality after A.net re-compresses.
Fotodj From United States of America, joined Mar 2002, 87 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (11 years 2 months 1 week 17 hours ago) and read 1095 times:
Colin, that is true ,I know the A.net software does compression, but when you save on level 10 you ending up
with half of the size without visible loss in quality.I just wanted to ask somebody who had done many uploads.
I am preparing a lot of pictures to be upload and I do not want wait unnecessery long uploading them.Thanks,Colin.
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