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FLATBED SCANNERS & RESOLUTIONS TIPS : HOW TO SCAN

A few scanning tips The purpose is to offer some scanning tips and hints, help with fundamentals and other basic scanning information to help you get the most from your scanner. 

Calibrate Your Scanner - The Secret to Good Scanning: why and how to calibrate your scanner

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Creating & Editing Digital Photos - Tips for Scanning & Restoring

Descreen or Removing the Moiré pattern - Because of the overlapping dots, photos scanned from a magazine or newspaper will display a Moiré pattern.

Do You Really Need All That Resolution?  do you really need 600dpi?

Experiments in Scanning Three-Dimensional Objects - While Xeroxing my hand one day I got to wondering about how a round object would turn out. The only round-ish object at hand was my own head, so I plunked it down on the glass and fumbled for the COPY button. The result was a bit strange--but it started me thinking about plunking 3-D objects down on my flatbed scanner. You can see some of my experiments by trying the links below.

Dynamic range, 24 bit or 30 bit color depth in scanners Dynamic range, 24 bit or 30 bit color depth in scanners

Getting Images Into The Computer Use Your Scanner As A Camera - A Unique Method For Creating Unique Images

Getting Started Scanning...Introduction to Scanning - So, you just got that brand new scanner hooked up and you're anxious to get started... wait! There's a few things you need to take into consideration before you do. Will you be printing the image, putting it on a Web page, or sharing them with friends via e-mail? Is there a chance you might want to edit the image at a later time?

Graphics file formats — which format to use? Common questions

How To Scan a Print - Scanning can be used to put prints on your web site or to let you digitally enhance your work before making a print.

How To Scan a Book - The truth of the matter is that scanning a book can be extremely easy if you know what you are doing. Otherwise it will be a nightmare. Scanning a book is very different from scanning other types of documents. The tips in this article should be of great help.

How to Scan 35 mm Slides On a Flatbed Scanner - It's so easy--and I was making it so hard!

How To Scan a Negative - Scanning can be used with colour or black and white negatives to produce files for printing from negatives or for putting images on your web site.

How To Scan a Slide - Colour slides (transparencies) can be scanned to produce files for printing from negatives or for putting images on your web site.

Interpolated resolution — what is it? The E3 scanner is a 300 dpi scanner, yet it is spec'ed at 300x600, and it offers resolution up to 4800 dpi! So what does that mean?

Tips on Scanning With special reference to creating digital images of philatelic materials

OCR - What It Is, How to Do it Better - Turning images into editable text

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - All about OCR

Out of memory problems? Explains a LOT about memory problems and what to do about them

Photographic Resolution — How much can we scan? A scanning resoulution FAQ

Pick Your Scanning Resolution - Calculate the Best Resolution for Your Scans

Printing Kodak Photo CD images A Kodak Photo CD FAQ

Removing Moiré Patterns - Moiré patterns are one of most annoying things that happen when working with scanned bitmap images. You see them every now and then especially when you scan a printed originals (as opposed to continuous-tone images like photos).

Resolution capability of printers — how much to scan? An opinionated FAQ

Scan Calculator - Calculate your best scanning resolution

Scanning 101: Getting Great-Looking Line Art from Not-So-Great Sources - Contributing editor Luisa Simone shows the way to better-looking drawings, logos, and other line-art scans.

Scanning 101: Setting the Right Resolution - In a dither about dots, halftones, and line screens? Luisa Simone gives you the skinny on how to choose the best scan resolution for your output device.

Scanning 12x12 Layouts - Scanning 12x12 Layouts

Scanning DPI for Email and the Web - When scanning for screen display you need only be concerned with pixel dimensions. A computer monitor displays approximately 96 pixels per inch. For simplicity's sake, I prefer to round this off to 100 ppi. So, if I want an image to appear approximately

Scanning for Backgrounds - Scanning for Backgrounds

Scanning 3D Objects - One thing some people with scanners might not already know is that they can scan 3D objects quite nicely.

Scanning for Fax Text is really better faxed as text (opinion).

Scanning Lab - Scanning tutorial and free scanning software.

Scanning Line Art - Three Modes of Scanning Line Art

Scanning Transparencies and Reflective Art - Scanning Transparencies and Reflective Art

Scanning Tips for Web Images - This is the method I used in 2004 to scan color prints for Web use. Maybe it will work for you also.

A Simple Way to Get Better Scans This section describes and explains a very standard scanner technique to correct and improve image contrast, andis applicable to scanning both prints and film.

The Skinny on Scanner Color - In the days before color management, all applications displayed RGB files by simply sending the color values in the file straight to the monitor.

Under the Desktop: Planning for Scanning - When you move an image from hardcopy to digital, do you just slap the photo in the scanner and crank up Photoshop? That may be the quickest route to a scan but David Morgenstern suggests that you might want to consider additional steps to improve the quality of your scanning workflow

UnSharp Masking or Refocusing the Scan - When you scan a photo, the scanner's software will recreate the photo with a series of dots.

Video boards — How much color to buy?

Video Resolution — How much to scan? We scan for the capability of our output device.

Wayne Fulton's Scanning FAQ

What is Scaling? What is Resampling? Not only that questioned is answered but also about 100 more too

What is TWAIN? - What is TWAIN?