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A few scanning tips by Wayne Fulton http://www.scantips.com
Excerpt from Wayne's Site:

"The purpose is to offer some scanning tips and hints, fundamentals and other basic scanning information to help you get the most from your scanner. How it works, for those that want to know.

Included here are the general questions that we've all asked about scanning, but unfortunately, that other sources don't answer. I think the scanning tips are basic, and appropriate for the beginner to scanning. The content is not advanced, but it is certainly not superficial either, it's just simply about how it works. It describes the things we need to know to be efficient and get the most from our scanner, in the various ways that we can use it. This material is intended for home and hobby scanner users, and is not concerned with commercial matters."

 

 
    START   The First Fundamental Concept
1. Video Resolution - How much to scan?
2. Printing Resolution - What is scaling?   What is Resampling?
3. Printer Resolution - How much to scan? 
4. Scanning Text - Scanner as a copy machine (Text, LineArt, OCR)
5. Scanning for Fax 
6. Moiré Interference - Scanning images in magazines/books/newspapers
7. 2400 dpi?   Interpolated resolution
8. Photo resolution - How much can we scan?
9. Graphic file formats - which format to use?
10. Out of memory problems? 
11. Video boards - How much color to buy?
12. Transparent Media Adapter - will it work for 35 mm slides? 
13. Printing Kodak Photo CD images 
14. Dynamic Range, 24 bit or 30 bits? 
15. The Search for System Color Calibration
Advanced
1. A Simple Way to Get Better Scans
2. Luminance / Histogram
3. UnSharp Mask sharpening
4. Exposure Control for Film
5. Histogram Practice
6. Curve Tool
7. Clone Tool
8. Restoration of Genealogical photos
9. Color Correction of Faded Slides 

Frequently Asked Questions
Microtek scanner hints
Example Photos and E3 scans
Books about Scanning
Scanning site links

 All links will take you to Scantips.com, no pages are hosted here and are the copyrighted property of Wayne Fulton.

 
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