Hello, folks. This is my first post with you guys; I usually hang around the dgrin forums , and I was directed over here with this question...
I'm planning to put together a photobook (using Blurb, Picaboo, etc - haven't decided) of historical photos of my family's ancestry - basically anything my grandmother has in her attic. Step one of this process is scanning the prints in and doing a reasonable job of restoration.
So, here's my question... Given the fact that I have two purposes here (archival of the history and presentation of the final book), what DPI should I be scanning these originals to? I'd never be planning to to huge blowups of these prints, but at the same time, I want to preserve as much data as is reasonable.
My plan has been to scan at 1200dpi and sample down to 600 for archival (letting PS do the resample as opposed to the scanner software to get better quality). Is this enough? Thanks!
-Greg Wellman
I'm planning to put together a photobook (using Blurb, Picaboo, etc - haven't decided) of historical photos of my family's ancestry - basically anything my grandmother has in her attic. Step one of this process is scanning the prints in and doing a reasonable job of restoration.
So, here's my question... Given the fact that I have two purposes here (archival of the history and presentation of the final book), what DPI should I be scanning these originals to? I'd never be planning to to huge blowups of these prints, but at the same time, I want to preserve as much data as is reasonable.
My plan has been to scan at 1200dpi and sample down to 600 for archival (letting PS do the resample as opposed to the scanner software to get better quality). Is this enough? Thanks!
-Greg Wellman
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