RE: New to Scanning

["George L Smyth" <GLSmyth@xxxxxxx>]

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> From: owner-infrared@xxxxx [mailto:owner-infrared@xxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom
> Nora
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 4:03 AM
> To: infrared@xxxxx
> Subject: New to Scanning
>
>
> I am scanning some of my B+W images for a website, and am trying to
> balance file size vs. quality.  I tried an  8x10 at 300 dpi with
> "millions of shades of gray" and got a file size of 7.7 MB.
>
> Any suggestions?

I generally aim for a file size of 40-80k for my images.  Knock the scan
down to 72dpi to start, as your monitor won't resolve anything more than
that anyway.  Then place the image on your Website and go to
http://netmechanic.com/GIFBot.ht (great site), entering the location of the
image.  The site will optimize the image with varying degrees of
compression.  Select the image just before the changes  become unacceptable
and save that image.

George L Smyth
Handmade Photographic Images
http://www2.ari.net/glsmyth/

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