Re: New to Scanning

[Andrew Frazer <Andy.Frazer@xxxxxxx>]

>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?
> 
>Tom Nora

You are doing it correctly.  The scanned file is very large probably
because it's in ".tif" format.  Once it's scanned in, get something
like Photoshop to read in the .tif file and save it as a .jpg file.
You'll probably reduce the 7MB file to a few hundred KB.


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