Tony
Welcome aboard. As Doug stated, there are lots of forum topics on resolution and resizing to check out. You will probably find more info than you seek there plus good urls that help you even more. There's a thread on Scanning Calculator that might be helpful to you. Check that out. It's in the Input/Output forum as well.
You're not the only one baffled about the right resolution for the job. It's been a popular topic more than once on this site. Enjoy the forum and look forward to hearing more from you.
DJ
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Thanks for the info, apologies I didn't notice that forum I will take a look.Leave a comment:
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Check out the thread in the Input/Output forums called "Scanning for enlargements". There are several similar threads, as well.Leave a comment:
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Newbie question on resizing
Just came across this site and it looks very useful and helpful. I've just started to get into the restoration of photographs, using Photoshop 6.0. I'm currently 'practising' on some old photos of my gran's before hopefully branching out to offer my services elsewhere. I wonder if I could pose what might seem a silly question -
I have a photo which is quite small (approx 4" x 2"), I would like to resize this to make it twice as big, but I'm a bit worried about losing quality. I was thinking that if I scanned it in at a high resolution (for example 600dpi - I normally scan at 300dpi), would this make any difference if I then said resize to 200%? And if so should I resize before I start work on restoration or at the end? I would have thought that it would be better to resize at the start so any editing I do I can make sure looks ok, rather than do it at the end and suddenly see all the work I have done stand out like a sore thumb!
Hopefully this makes some sense, I'd be grateful of any advice.
Thanks,
Tony
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Hi everybody,
I searched around and found various posts on resolution, but none were exactly what i was looking for. here's my situation: I've got a lot of photo's to edit, and so far I've been scanning them at 600 dpi (the photos are almost all 4 x 6's and most of them probably wont...11-17-2002, 12:07 AM -
I recently acquired a scanner and along with it a slew of family photos to scan and preserve. Although I am only scanning them right now I do plan on digitally restoring many of them. Physical sizes of images range from 8x10 to less than 1" square.
I've noticed that a lot of members...03-29-2008, 08:56 AM -
hellow to every one:
this is my first thread, but i've been reading almost all the threads since i loged in nearly a year a go and it helped me a lot to improve my work and i am very greatfull to every one on this site
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now to my enquiry, i always enlarge the photo to size A4, this...04-15-2002, 03:00 PM -
When restoring old yellowed/faded photos, Especially small ones, I have run into the same problem twice now and was wondering what I can do to minimize it. It seems everytime I adjust for tone & contrast, I end up with a really grainy looking image. The only thing I can think of thats causing this,...01-16-2006, 07:37 PM
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So i had my first post the other day:
http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13282
And now i have some questions on scanning:
Does it do you any good to scan at higher than 300dpi for pictures? When the image is scanned in, it is larger than what...05-03-2006, 02:30 PM
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