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Believe it or not there was a time before digital cameras. In the age of film cameras after you had used up your roll of film you had to process it or get it processed. This resulted in photographs printed to actual paper and not just saved as in an electronic format. How do you get those printed masterpieces to digital format so you can share them with the world? Well I hope to answer that for you with the following tutorial.
The advantage of scanning a picture directly to Photoshop is that you can then carry out fixing and touching up the picture directly. Plus PhotoShop gives you many more options when it comes to resizing the picture and formats to save it in.
- Open up Adobe PhotoShop and go to File > Import from there you should be able to see your scanner as an option. Select your scanner.
- Now all scanner software is a bit a different so I will just go over the settings you should use. It is up to you to figure out how to set them in your scanner software. The basic procedure is to do a preview of what is in your scanning area. Then you select the picture you want to scan. Now here comes the tricky part. The resolution you scan the photo at depends on what you plan to do with it.
- If you are just going to e-mail it then 72 pixel resolution is what you want to choose.
- If you are planning to send the photo directly to your printer than you want to scan it at 300 pixel resolution.
- If you want to do some retouching then you’ll want to scan it at 600 pixel resolution. This will allow you to a large image to work with. It will also give you the detail needed if you are require to really zoom in on parts of it.
- After you have selected your resolution scan the photo. Be aware that if you are scanning at 600 pixel resolution this can take some time.
These six simple tricks can greatly increase the quality of your scanned images.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Nicole // Jan 5, 2008 at 5:54 am
Question is how do I get to take them with that kind of camera you showed up there?
But thanks for the tutorial!
I’m sure I’ll use it when I have access to my stored pictures again!
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Jenny (Who am I?)
// Jan 5, 2008 at 6:59 am
Great if your scanner still works with updated Microsoft software, which mine doesn’t.
Is it worth it to buy a new scanner do you think?
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Ben (Who am I?)
// Jan 5, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Jenny if all you are going to do is scan your photos then I would say it wouldn’t be worth it. There any many services that will do that for you for cheap.
Nicole as for the camera it was a graphic off http://www.sxc.hu
4 Nicole // Jan 5, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I tried to use one in March this year, but didn’t have much success.
(Not that I read much on the “How to” before I jumped in the pool :P)
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BioTecK (Who am I?)
// Jan 20, 2008 at 9:59 am
When I have to scan a photo, i scan it at 150 dpi. This way i actually keep the real photo size, and i’m able to do some retouching! But 300 dpi will just do the job perfectly!
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Ben (Who am I?)
// Jan 20, 2008 at 10:02 am
At 300 dpi it makes your retouching job much easier. More so if you are working on old damaged photos.
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Gini (Who am I?)
// Dec 20, 2008 at 6:46 am
A time before digital cameras…. such an odd notion.
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