Excellent photos Rich - I especially like the silhouetted boat at
sunset. Regarding the sharpness of the prints I agree they do look
slightly soft, and I think this is probably due to scanning at too low a
resolution. When I first got a flatbed scanner I used to scan photos at
a resolution which meant they came out as 690x460 images, and it was
only much later that I realised you can get much, much better quality by
scanning at the best resolution of the scanner, resampling to web-size
later, and then sharpening a bit in photoshop.
Note that most scanners claim to offer very high resolution via
interpolation, but the resolution to scan at is the optical resolution
of the scanner - in this case 1200dpi, not the claimed interpolated
resolution of 9600dpi. If 1200dpi gives files that are too large to
work with, scan at 600 or 300dpi.
Saving as jpegs will cause some loss in quality, but it should be barely
noticable, unless you save as a jpeg, then do some image manipulation
and save as a jpeg again. In that case ugly artefacts will begin appearing.
Hope that helps,
Roger
My own observation: all the scans seem slightly blurry, out of focus. The
scans were made from 4 X 6 prints (made from slides of Provia 100F) which
look pretty decent. Something has been lost between the prints and
photo.net.
So my main question at this point is, what do you guys think is the main
problem here? Scanner (Epson Perfection 1200U)? Scanning too small a print?
Resolution? I used 133dpi for 600 X 800 monitors. Should I have scanned
at 300dpi and reduced it somehow? Saved them as .jpg files -- could that be
it? There is SO much to learn here.
So much fun, so little time...
http://www.photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=234534
Rich
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