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Original Photographs:
Photographs are printed at approximately 300 dpi. When I am scanning photographs I usually scan at 300 dpi. This allows you to enlarge the image four times for the web and/ or to crop to a section that you want. It also lets you almost double the size if you are going to have it printed and enlarged. I have also scanned the image at 600 dpi for you to see how the higher scan could be used. See Working with Images after you have scanned the image.
For additional information: A Few Scanning Tips http://www.scantips.com/begin.html
This is an approximation of the original image:
To scan an image and have it open in Photoshop:
- Place the photograph on the scanner.
- Open Photoshop
- Choose File, Import, Twain_32...
- VistaScan will open.
- Use the settings below.
- Press Preview
- Choose the area to be scanned
- Press Scan
These are the settings I used with VistaScan.
The Image will be open in Photoshop ready to work with.
The picture below was cropped and resized to a width of 700 dpi.
The next three examples are from the 300 dpi scan The second and third ones are at the full 300 dpi.
The image below is from the 600 dpi scan. Compare back to the original at the top.
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