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Old 03-13-2003, 04:42 AM
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Default Notice the Lucas Tripod Lights ....

None of these pictures will pint out very well unless you put the pixels closer together. 200 dpi is a good minimum, so if you resize the last two 800 pixel wide images (800 pixels / 200 dpi = 4 inches) you will get a decent print. If you print them as is, you get a 800 / 72 = 11.11 inch crappy print.

When scanning, you set the resolution: At 300 ppi, a 10" x 8" original turns into 3000 pixels across. 150 ppi is 1500 pixels across. You choose the scanning resolution. I get the best results by scanning prints at 200 - 300 ppi and then usung the Photoshop methods above to get what I want on the web.

Oh, one more thing. Monitor displays are usually set to 800 x 600 or 1024 X 768 (or....!) so my 800 pixel wide image fills up the screen on some displays, but not on others!

Get it? Got it? Good!
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